Dr. Ambarish Karamchedu

Biography

Ambarish Karamchedu is a critical development studies researcher with a background in human geography and international development. His work focuses on the political economy and ecology of uneven development and agrarian environmental change in South Asia. He has primarily conducted academic research in India, emphasizing qualitative research methods and the intersections of agrarian political economy, environmental development, and human/environment relations with caste and class relations. Ambarish joined the Department of International Development at King’s College London in October 2022 after serving as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at the same institution. He completed his PhD in Development Policy Management at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, in 2021. His master's degree was also obtained from the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, in International Development: Environment, Climate Change and Development in 2017, and his undergraduate degree in Geography was completed at the University of Glasgow in 2015. His research addresses topics such as political economy and ecology of industrial livestock systems, agrarian political economy, environmental and climate change impacts on smallholder agriculture, and critical animal studies with a focus on India's socio-ecological dynamics. Ambarish is committed to exploring the complexities of human/environment relations, particularly in the context of climate crises and the evolving landscape of agrarian capitalism.

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