Name: Professor Vibha Arora (D.Phil Oxford, ISCA, 2005)

Affiliation: Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, new Delhi, India

Contact details: aurora@hss.iitd.ac.in; vibhaaurora@yahoo.com

Statement of interest: I am broadly conducting research and writing in the arena of environmental movements, energy politics, indigenous people and sacred landscapes, social forestry and social ecology, political ecology of water, the anthropology of landscape, and the sociology of infrastructure.

Geographical/topical area of interest: India and the Himalayas in Northern South Asia