Misria Shaik Ali | Humanities & Social Sciences

Misria Shaik Ali

Misria Shaik Ali
Postdoctoral Fellow
Multi. Disc.
CV Summary: 

My post-doctoral research aims to unpack the nationalist, agrarian and tribal articulation of "indigeneity" in India's nuclear history/order. It aims to contribute to Science and Technology Studies, Environmental Humanities and Contemporary Political Studies of India through a recursive historical and ethnographic analyses of each stakeholders' sense of belonging with uranium-rich soil. I am currently the South-Asia coordinator for the STS-IN network and committee member, War and Genocide Working Group, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).

Passionate towards serving in India's academic institutions, I returned after my doctoral studies to serve as Chair, Center for Design Research and Assistant Professor at School of Arts and Design, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, prior to joining IIT-Delhi. I was also the Co-chair of the Local Organizing Committee, 2023 4S Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawai'i. As co-chair, I conceptualized and co-organized 4S Paraconference x Environmental inJustice: Building A Global Record and the 4S 2023 Presidential Plenary. I served as 4S student representative between 2020-2023 and was part of the David Edge Prize Committee, 2021; Rachel Carson Book Prize Committee, 2022 and Ludwig Fleck Book Prize, 2023.

I obtained my PhD from Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York in May 2023. My doctoral dissertation, titled "Becoming Irradiated: The Epistemic Politics of Neglect along India's Nuclear Fuel Cycle," analysed the politics of nuclear-environmental-health governance around Tummalapalle Uranium Mine and Mill, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant and during the 2010 Mayapuri Radiological Incident. My dissertation demonstrated how India's desire for self-reliance and the regulatory framework of nuclear safety as epistemologies of negelct, ignores the knowledges of becoming irradiated in these three nuclear settings. I have my Master of Arts in Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat and B.A. in Economics, Stella Maris College, Chennai.

With academic publications in journals like Tapuya, Social Movement Studies, Seminar magazine, I have written opinion and perspective pieces for Maktoob Media, Outlook, Two Circles, First Post among others. I have been recognized as a India's future generation of intellectuals in 2020 by the Print Magazine, Distinguished Alumni of Jindal School of Government and Public Policy and my article, "Solving Nuclear Fear" was documented in Parliamentary Documentation, XLVI, Lok Sabha Secretariat.

Contact Information

misria@hss.ittd.ac.in
s.a.misria@gmail.com
Phone: +918816934309 (Whatsapp disabled)

Research Areas

Science and Technology Studies, Feminist Science Studies, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Humanities, Environmental and Multispecies Justice, Study of Ignorance/Agnotology, Public Understanding of Science, Sensory Studies, Violence and Alterity.

Academic Background

PhD (Science and Technology Studies), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
M.A (Public Policy), O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana
B.A (Economic), Stella Maris College, Tamil Nadu

Publications

Peer reviewed publications:

“The Alterlife of Disable Fetal Imaginary: Understanding Irradiation and Disability after New Reproductive Technologies,” In Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology Is Impacting Social Relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about What Is Normal, edited by Katheryn Burrows. Lexington Books. January 2024.

“Memorializing Decommissioning: A Nuclear Culture Approach to Safety Culture.” In American Apocalypse(s): Nuclear Imaginaries and the Reinvention of Modern America, RSAJournal (31): 2020. October, 2020

Blogs:

“Experiments on Radioporosity: A Response to Decaying Trust at YSR District, Andhra Pradesh.” Center for 21st Century, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. May 10, 2023.

“4S Honolulu Paraconference.” 4Sonline.org. March 23, 2023

Academic magazine:

“Decolonizing anti-nuclearism, Rethinking peace,” Seminar (755).  Jul 2022.

“The Spectre of Indian Muslim in India’s COVID experience” in COVID issue, Seminar (733). Sept 2020.

“‘Solving’ Nuclear Fear” in Peace Issue, Seminar (719). Jul 2019

Book reviews/analyses:

“People against Nuclear Energy: Anti-Nuclear Movements in India by Ajmal Khan (Editor). New Delhi, Sage & Yoda Press, 2022. Social Movement Studies. May 2024.

“Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism by Banu Subramaniam.” University of Washington, Washington, 2022. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 5(1). Sept 2022.

“Kudankulam: A Story of an Indo-Russian Nuclear Power Plant by Raminder Kaur.” Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2020. In Seminar (738), pp. 71-73. Feb 2021.

Teaching Areas

Social Consequences of Science and Technology; Epistemology; Public Policy; Environment and Society; Media, Culture and Society.