Michelle Irengbam

My dissertation work focuses on environmental conflicts, or more specifically hydropower conflicts in a region now known as Northeast India. I am particularly interested in understanding how processes of securitization shape environmental conflicts and how conflicts in frontier regions both shape and are shaped by novel and pre-existing gender relations.  My research engages with political ecology, critical hydropolitics, frontier theory, and feminist ecologies, positioning me as a human geographer working at the intersections of environment, security, and gender in contested landscapes.