Nikhil Deb
Biographic Data
| ID | 258129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikhil Deb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikhil |
| FAMILY NAME | Deb |
| SIGNATURE | DEB N |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Polytechnic State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7289-5323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gendered exit and displacement: Social reproduction and automation in Bangladesh’s garment industry
Women have long underwritten the global garment industry while disproportionately bearing the burden of its coercive labor regimes. In Bangladesh—the world’s second-largest apparel exporter after China—this feminization was widely celebrated as a development success that incorporated millions of women into formal employment. Yet the narrative is fraying: women’s share of the ready-made garment workforce has fallen from roughly 80% in the 1980s to…
A climate of many changes: Knowledge politics of climate impacts in Bangladesh
As climate change accelerates and sea levels rise, coastal regions have become central to discussions within global climate discourse. Bangladesh is frequently portrayed by international financial institutions and major media outlets as a paradigmatic case of the existential challenges confronting low-lying nations. This study contends that such Dominant Institutional Narratives (DINs) are inextricably tied to strategic, market-oriented logics th…
Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South
Socioenvironmental Injustice across the Global Divide
This paper explores the connections between two seemingly disparate cases of socioenvironmental injustice: Flint’s water crisis in Michigan, USA, and Union Carbide’s toxic chemical release in Bhopal, India. Engaging our empirical and theoretical insights from these two cases, this paper illustrates how marginalized people in distant settings can face similar socioenvironmental struggles. Considering Bhopal and Flint as instances of slow violence …
Unyielding humanity from catastrophic ruins: New political society for social and environmental justice after Bhopal
This paper analyzes the ways in which a site of catastrophic ruins transpires as a new political society for critical social and environmental justice. Predicated on two and half months of fieldwork in Bhopal – consisting of 60 interviews with gas and water victims and activists, archival research, and observation of sites and events – the paper specifically explains how the Bhopal Movement, the longest-running social movement in post-colonial In…
Slow Violence and theGas Peeditin Neoliberal India
This article analyzes the ways in which slow violence and neoliberalism intertwine in the production of social and environmental destruction, evident in the lingering devastation from the 1984 Union Carbide catastrophe in Bhopal, India. Children are born with congenital abnormalities; women are plagued with reproductive health problems; and dangerous chemicals left in the abandoned factory continue to contaminate soil and groundwater. Yet Bhopal …
Global Agenda for Social Justice 2
Law and Corporate Malfeasance in Neoliberal India
Critical sociolegal scholars highlight how the law favors powerful actors in handling the socioenvironmental devastation affecting marginalized populations. What receives scant attention is how the neoliberalization of the world economy has further enabled powerful capitalist firms to shape the legal path in their own favor and to the detriment of the marginalized. Union Carbide's 1984 Bhopal catastrophe killed 25,000, injured 600,000, and left p…
Slow Violence and theGas Peeditin Neoliberal India
This article analyzes the ways in which slow violence and neoliberalism intertwine in the production of social and environmental destruction, evident in the lingering devastation from the 1984 Union Carbide catastrophe in Bhopal, India. Children are born with congenital abnormalities; women are plagued with reproductive health problems; and dangerous chemicals left in the abandoned factory continue to contaminate soil and groundwater. Yet Bhopal …
Law and Corporate Malfeasance in Neoliberal India
Critical sociolegal scholars highlight how the law favors powerful actors in handling the socioenvironmental devastation affecting marginalized populations. What receives scant attention is how the neoliberalization of the world economy has further enabled powerful capitalist firms to shape the legal path in their own favor and to the detriment of the marginalized. Union Carbide's 1984 Bhopal catastrophe killed 25,000, injured 600,000, and left p…
Unyielding humanity from catastrophic ruins: New political society for social and environmental justice after Bhopal
This paper analyzes the ways in which a site of catastrophic ruins transpires as a new political society for critical social and environmental justice. Predicated on two and half months of fieldwork in Bhopal – consisting of 60 interviews with gas and water victims and activists, archival research, and observation of sites and events – the paper specifically explains how the Bhopal Movement, the longest-running social movement in post-colonial In…
Law and Corporate Malfeasance in Neoliberal India
Critical sociolegal scholars highlight how the law favors powerful actors in handling the socioenvironmental devastation affecting marginalized populations. What receives scant attention is how the neoliberalization of the world economy has further enabled powerful capitalist firms to shape the legal path in their own favor and to the detriment of the marginalized. Union Carbide's 1984 Bhopal catastrophe killed 25,000, injured 600,000, and left p…
Global Agenda for Social Justice 2
Unyielding humanity from catastrophic ruins: New political society for social and environmental justice after Bhopal
This paper analyzes the ways in which a site of catastrophic ruins transpires as a new political society for critical social and environmental justice. Predicated on two and half months of fieldwork in Bhopal – consisting of 60 interviews with gas and water victims and activists, archival research, and observation of sites and events – the paper specifically explains how the Bhopal Movement, the longest-running social movement in post-colonial In…
Slow Violence and theGas Peeditin Neoliberal India
This article analyzes the ways in which slow violence and neoliberalism intertwine in the production of social and environmental destruction, evident in the lingering devastation from the 1984 Union Carbide catastrophe in Bhopal, India. Children are born with congenital abnormalities; women are plagued with reproductive health problems; and dangerous chemicals left in the abandoned factory continue to contaminate soil and groundwater. Yet Bhopal …
Socioenvironmental Injustice across the Global Divide
This paper explores the connections between two seemingly disparate cases of socioenvironmental injustice: Flint’s water crisis in Michigan, USA, and Union Carbide’s toxic chemical release in Bhopal, India. Engaging our empirical and theoretical insights from these two cases, this paper illustrates how marginalized people in distant settings can face similar socioenvironmental struggles. Considering Bhopal and Flint as instances of slow violence …
A climate of many changes: Knowledge politics of climate impacts in Bangladesh
As climate change accelerates and sea levels rise, coastal regions have become central to discussions within global climate discourse. Bangladesh is frequently portrayed by international financial institutions and major media outlets as a paradigmatic case of the existential challenges confronting low-lying nations. This study contends that such Dominant Institutional Narratives (DINs) are inextricably tied to strategic, market-oriented logics th…
Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South
Gendered exit and displacement: Social reproduction and automation in Bangladesh’s garment industry
Women have long underwritten the global garment industry while disproportionately bearing the burden of its coercive labor regimes. In Bangladesh—the world’s second-largest apparel exporter after China—this feminization was widely celebrated as a development success that incorporated millions of women into formal employment. Yet the narrative is fraying: women’s share of the ready-made garment workforce has fallen from roughly 80% in the 1980s to…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economic Justice (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (2 works) · Human Rights and Development (2 works) · Social justice (2 works)