EP #296 - 06.23.2021- COVID19 in India Update

Today I welcome political scientist Prakash Kashwan to discuss COVID-19 in India.

Prakash Kashwan is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Research Program on Economic and Social Rights, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs. He studies how social and political context shapes outcomes related to the environment, economic development, and social justice, with a specific focus on the role of political and economic inequalities. He is the author of the widely reviewed and acclaimed book Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2017) and a Co-Editor of the journal Environmental Politics. He currently finalizing an edited volume on Climate Justice in India to be published by Cambridge University Press, and another book manuscript on Rooted Radicalism, which focuses on Climate Justice in the global North and is under an advanced contract with Oxford University Press.