Dr. Ritwika Basu is an environmental social scientist and critical geographer whose work examines how emergent climate urbanisms reshape labor, mobility, and inequality in cities of the Global South. Working at the intersections of urban political economy, political ecology, and critical spatial theory, she traces how climate transitions reconfigure everyday geographies of work and social life. Her research pays particular attention to the speculative and material processes through which urban futures are produced and contested. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from Durham University (UK) and has worked across academia, the science-policy interface, and development and urban policy practice, bringing an interdisciplinary, practice-engaged perspective to the study of urban transitions.
