Silpa Satheesh Mahatma Gandhi University

Silpa Satheesh works as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India. Her research interests are broadly centered in the fields of social movements, Environmental Labour Studies, political economy and social dimensions of climate change. Her book ‘Labour, Nature and Capitalism: Exploring Labour-Environmental Conflicts in Kerala, India’ (2025, UCL Press) looks at the tensions between trade unions and a working-class environmental movement. Silpa has published her research in journals and edited volumes including ‘Critical Asian Studies’, ‘Sociology Compass’, ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies’, and ‘Interface: A journal for and about social movements’.