Sangita Thebe Limbu

Indigeneity, Gender, and Climate Change  

I am a PhD candidate at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction at UCL. My doctoral research focuses on the intersecting discourses of Indigeneity and climate change in Nepal. Using the analytical lens of gender and intersectionality, I explore how Indigenous identity is understood, upheld, and embodied. I further examine how the demand for the recognition of collective rights is framed amidst the unfolding ecological crisis, aspirations for development, contentious landscape of identity politics, and a history of cultural loss and erasure.

Drawing upon oral histories, archival and ethnographic research methods, I aim to contribute to the wider scholarship on Indigeneity, gender, climate change and disaster narratives, and ecological and cultural loss in the eastern Himalayas. 

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