Department of Development Studies
Megha Kashyap
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Key information
- Roles
- Department of Development Studies PhD researcher
- Department
- Department of Development Studies
- Email address
- 676133@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Bodies and Borders: An exploratory study of borders in contemporary Assam
Biography
Megha is a feminist activist from South Asia and has a decade of work in the Gender and Development space. Her Phd project is a culmination of this experience. Alongside her PhD, she also works as the Decolonising Research Fellow for London South Bank University. Prior to this, she worked with International and National NGOs and development organisations like Action Aid UK, Oxfam and worked for over 5 years in community based grassroots organisations in India. Her PhD project uses community based research methods to explore how bodies experience borders, how they negotiate borders and how bordering processes and constructions at the site of Assam are embodied.
Research interests
Borderlands, migration, gender, postcolonialism, decolonisation, feminist geography.
