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Nithya Natarajan is a Senior Lecturer in International Development at King's College London. Her research focuses on South India and Cambodia, exploring agrarian change, rural-urban livelihoods, labor precarity, gender, and debt. She completed her PhD through the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) at SOAS, University of London, and held a postdoctoral position at Royal Holloway as part of the ESRC-Department for International Development (DfID) funded 'Blood Bricks' research project. Nithya is a co-investigator on the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project 'Depleted Debt?' which examines gendered issues related to climate, credit, and nutrition across translocal contexts in Cambodia and South India. Her work has resulted in various journal articles, book chapters, and policy contributions to organizations such as Open Democracy regarding the UK's Modern Slavery Act. With extensive teaching experience in Development Studies and Politics at SOAS, she continues to teach and supervise students in related areas at King's. Her research also interrogates the impacts of climate change on agrarian communities, particularly in the contexts of rural livelihoods, debt dynamics, and the changing political economy of agriculture.
King's College London • London, England
Teaching and researching in the field of International Development.
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