Dr. Hashim Bin Rashid

Biography

Hashim bin Rashid is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on the intersection of environmental change, economic transformation, and social movements. His research involves working with both national and transnational social movements aimed at achieving food, energy, labor, and climate justice. Aims of his work include recognizing communities and social movements as authors of concepts and theories that propose alternative trajectories for local and global development. He is a co-founder of the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) and the South Asia Collective, which seeks to foster dialogue among scholars studying rural social movements in South Asia. His current book project investigates the trajectories of agrarian change in North India, exploring the colonial and postcolonial periods. He engages with movement literature and uses ethnography and life history interviews to bridge gaps in the literature on agrarian change and politics. His collaborations include working with the Alternate Law Collective to develop digital tools that capture community critiques of large-scale hydrological transformations.

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