Ritwika Basu

Urban Geographer and Political Ecologist with nearly 10 years of interdisciplinary research experience focusing on climate urbanism, infrastructure, and racial inequality. Expertise in racial capitalism, Southern urbanism, and feminist political ecology, utilizing ethnography, spatial analysis, and critical policy methods to analyze urban spatial and ecological transformations. Engaged with prominent research think tanks and global platforms, including UN-Habitat and IPCC, while holding teaching positions in human geography at Durham and Bristol. Dedicated to merging conceptual rigor with plural methodological traditions to enhance the relevance and impact of critical scholarship. Proven track record of influencing policy through applied research practice, and collaboration.

• Professor Colin McFarlane, Durham University, colin.mcfarlane@durham.ac.uk
• Prof. Andrew Baldwin, Durham University, w.a.baldwin@durham.ac.uk
• Dr. Andres Luque Ayala, Durham University, a.e.luque@durham.ac.uk

• Financialisation of Risk and Racialised Labor Geographies: Critical Perspectives on the Changing Landscape of Mobility Governance, Draft, Urban Studies / Antipode
• Climate Politics Otherwise: Political Labor of Resilience, Conceptualisation, Political Geography (sponsored by the RGS Political Geography cluster)
• Geographies of Global Climate Urbanism and the Emergence of New Climate Regimes, Prof. Joshua Long (Southwestern University), Dr. Jennifer Rice (University of Georgia), Formative, proposal stage
• Geographies of Epistemic Legitimacy and Negotiations: Methodological Insights into Studying Climate Urbanism, Daniela Schofield (Cardiff University), Proposal and Conceptualisation
• Disaster-Induced Political Configurations: A Comparative Study of Migrant Sending and Receiving Regions, Shashwat Dhar (Political Science, Vanderbilt University), Early-stage, paper abstract and presenting at MPSA conference

• Royal Geographical Society (RGS)
• American Association of Geographers (AAG)
• British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS)
• British Sociological Association

• Indulges in amateur urban photography and street journaling
• interested in films, art history and museums
• Cafe hopping is an existential force of joy d viveier
• Home gardening
• and believes in nature-bvased fitness regimem

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation Studentship, Durham University

• RENKEI Climate Adaptation and Resilience Fellowship

• Student Bursary, University of Cambridge

• Small Opportunities Grant, Oxfam Great Britain

• Anubhav Lecture Series South Asia Fellowship

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Royal Geographical Society (RGS)

• American Association of Geographers (AAG)

• British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS)

IPCC. (2022). Chapter 18 on Climate Resilient Development Pathways. [Available online at: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/]

Singh, C., & Basu, R. (2020). Moving in and out of vulnerability: Interrogating migration as an adaptation strategy along a rural–urban continuum in India. The Geographical Journal, 186(1), 87102. [Available online at: https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12328]

Ziervogel, G., Satyal, P., Basu, R., Mensah, A., Singh, C., Hegga, S., & Abu, T.Z. (2019). Vertical integration for climate change adaptation in the water sector: Lessons from decentralisation in Africa and India. Regional Environmental Change, 19(8), 2729-2743. [Available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01558-0]

Basu, R., & Bazaz, B. A. (2018). Reimagining development practice: Mainstreaming climate justice into planning frameworks. In T. Jaffry (Ed.), The Handbook of Climate Justice (pp. 100-113). Routledge. [Available online at: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-ClimateJustice/Jafry/p/book/9781138689356]

Singh, C., Deshpande, T., & Basu, R. (2017). How do we assess vulnerability to climate change in India? A systematic review of literature. Regional Environmental Change, 1-12. [Available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-017-1149-x]

Basu, R., & Bazaz, A. D. (2016). Assessing climate change risks and contextual vulnerability in urban areas of semi-arid India: The case of Bangalore. CARIAA-ASSAR Working Paper. International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada and UK Aid, London, United Kingdom. [Available online at: www.assaradapt.org]

Revi, A., Pahwa Gajjar, S., Basu, R., Jain, G., & Bazaz, B. A. (2016). Cities on a finite planet. In S. Bartlett & D. Sattherthwaite (Eds.), Bangalore, India (pp. 44-63). New York: Routledge. [Available online at: https://www.routledge.com/Cities-on-a-Finite-Planet-Towards-transformativeresponses-to-climate-change/Bartlett-Satterthwaite/p/book/9781138795187]

MEDIA PUBLICATIONS

Of Looming Men and Lingering Women: Materiality of Gender in the Textile Enclaves of Surat in India. Digital Magazine on Feminism and the City, as part of the GRIPP project.

Glocal Sustainability: Sustainable Development or Forced Cultural Assimilation. (2018). Policy Forum, Asia and the Pacific Policy Society. [Available online at: https://www.policyforum.net/glocal-sustainability/]

Taking Cues from People's Movements for Governing Climate Change Induced Migration. (2019). Urbanet. [Available online at: https://www.urbanet.info/climate-change-induced-migration/]

Governing Water Across Scales: The Karnataka Experience, (with Chandni Singh).

[Available online at: https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/governing-water-across-scaleskarnataka-experience]