On 10 December 2025, Amod Shah will defend his PhD thesis investigating India's anti-coal struggles, focusing on struggles in the Mand-Raigarh coalfield in the state of Chhattisgarh.
- PhD student
- Date
- Wednesday 10 Dec 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
He provides a detailed elaboration of how the political dynamics of local movements against coal extraction interact with wider rural transformations in mining-affected regions and the political economy of contemporary coal extraction in India. He shows that the socially differentiated impacts of mining on affected households’ livelihoods and reproduction need not undermine possibilities for meaningful opposition.
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Doctoral Board
Chair
Doctoral dissertation supervisors
Full Doctoral Committee
- Professor Markus Kröger, University of Helsinki
- Professor Vasudha Chhotray. University of East Anglia
- Professor Nikita Sud, Oxford University
- Professor Murat Arsel, ISS
- Dr Helena Pérez Niño, ISS
- More information
The Public Defence will take place on Wednesday, 10 December 2025 in the ISS auditorium (Aula B) and the ceremony will begin promptly at 14:30 hrs. The doors will be closed at the start of the Public Defence.
Children below the age of 7 are not allowed in the auditorium during the first part of the ceremony.
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Atrium of the ISS.
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.
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- ISS PhD programme
