Nikas Kindo

About

Nikas Kindo is a PhD Researcher at the School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. His work relates to resource politics in relation to extractive industries and societies. His interests also include the political ecology of coal in India, extractive industries, and Indigenous communities' challenges in relation to land use and resource claims. He is currently associated with the FORMAS and SIDA projects on just coal energy transition.

Employment

• International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Researcher
  2023 - Present
• FORMAS & SIDA Researcher
  2014 - 2018

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

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Publications (7)

• Staying in place: Immobility of Adivasi communities in the Coal Mining Regions of Jharkhand, India
  Regional Environmental Change 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s10113-025-02515-5
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• Livelihood Transitions To and Away from the Coal Economy in India – Patrik Oskarsson, Suravee Nayak, and Nikas Kindo;
  Rethinking Environmental Governance Broadening the Scope, Deepening the Perspectives 2025
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• A Just Transition or a Downward Spiral? Land and Livelihood Transitions to and Away From Coal Mining in India
  Journal of Agrarian Change 2025 DOI: 10.1111/joac.70003
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• The micropolitics of coal in India: understanding resource politics from the ground up through a materiality lens
  Local Environment 2024 DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2306302
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• Land, Forest, Adivasis, and the Making of New Resource Frontiers
  Sociological Bulletin 2024 DOI: 10.1177/00380229241287395
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• Protest movement against the Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharastra
  People Against Nuclear Energy: Anti-nuclear Movements in India 2022
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• Coal Trafficking:
  Mining Encounters 2018 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv893jxv.11
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