https://www.deeptichatti.com/research-1 daily 0.75 2021-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5deaa9eb3d98727c5025322c/1575669880099-9ONM3SOCAUVDGTLJ3U5H/IMG_20161126_100746302+copy.jpg Research - Clean Energy Transitions I use qualitative research methods to analyze energy transitions in historically underserved communities grappling with poor energy access and high exposures to air pollution. I have carried out long term research in India to center the social and environmental justice implications of clean energy programs. In India my research focuses on sustainable development efforts to reduce indoor air pollution through the promotion of clean cooking technologies and fuels. In the United States, my research on energy transitions is in collaboration with Indigenous communities in California grappling with high exposures to wildfire smoke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5deaa9eb3d98727c5025322c/1575671457361-OEQCC0LQ1RKQC10OLWNV/DSC_0793.JPG Research - Gender and Technology My research analyzes the charismatic idea that positive social change follows appropriate technological change. My current book project analyzes the development imaginaries embedded in multiple “clean” and “green” cookstove technologies and government programs, which attempt to eliminate the ubiquitous mitti ka chulha (mud stove) from rural Indian homes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5deaa9eb3d98727c5025322c/1575691165488-BALWQ4R3HR9A1KC95TBA/DSC_0789.JPG Research - Politics of Knowledge in Sustainable Development My research analyzes the politics of trans-national research; I focus on the power hierarchies in knowledge production which manifest in fieldwork and experiments attempting to generate insights on climate change and air pollution. I study how scalable truths about energy access, poverty, and sustainable development are generated from specific contexts in the global South. For several years I have been ethnographically studying a randomized control trial on technology adoption, air pollution, and climate change impacts in India. https://www.deeptichatti.com/publications-1 daily 0.75 2023-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5deaa9eb3d98727c5025322c/1575752652146-B7TRKICTJM466Y7YHXHO/DSC_0175.JPG Publications - Publications If you would like to read any of my publications and do not have access through your institution, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. In-progress book manuscript: Changing Hearths and Minds in Rural India: Cooking, Improvement, Air Pollution and Energy Access in the context of Climate Change Peer-reviewed journal articles: Chatti, Deepti and Sayd Randle. “Disrupting the Grid: Encountering Fire and Smoke through Energy Infrastructures” (in copyedits stage at Environment and Society: Advances in Research issue on Flood and Fire, estimated publication date in 2023) Chatti, Deepti, Carisse Geronimo, Cassidy Barrientos, Jana Ganion, Malcolm Moncheur, Peter Alstone, Shawn Bourque, Tanya Garcia, and Tesfayohanes Yacob. "Smoke, Air, Fire, Energy (SAFE) in Rural California: Critical Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration." Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (2023) Simon, Gregory, Bryan Wee, Deepti Chatti, Emily Anderson. “Drawing on Knowledge: Visual Narrative Analysis for Critical Environment and Development Research.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2022). Saxena, Alder Keleman, Deepti Chatti, Katy Overstreet, and Michael R. Dove. "From moral ecology to diverse ontologies: relational values in human ecological research, past and present." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (2018). Chatti, Deepti. “Cows, Cookstoves, and Climate Change: A non-anthropocentric view of household energy use in the rural Indian Himalayas.” Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism (2018). Chatti, Deepti, Matthew Archer, Myles Lennon, and Michael R. Dove. "Exploring the mundane: Towards an ethnographic approach to bioenergy." Energy Research & Social Science 30 (2017): 28-34. Zeng, Lily, Deepti Chatti, Chris Hebdon, and Michael R. Dove. "The Political Ecology of Knowledge and Ignorance." Brown J. World Aff. 23 (2016). Peer-reviewed book chapters: Chatti, Deepti. “Gender and Nature: From Ecofeminism to Feminist Political Ecology”, in Doing Political Ecology, edited volume with Routledge Press (in preparation) Chatti, Deepti. “Approaching Energy and Climate Justice: Working Towards More Just Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Praxis”, in Researching Justice: engaging with questions and spaces of (in)justice through social research, edited volume with Bristol University Press (under review) Brock, Samara, Austin Bryniarski, and Deepti Chatti. “Why Big Ideas So Often Fail”, in A Better Planet: 36 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future, Yale University Press (2019). Chatti, Deepti. "India's energy geographies: a critical introduction." Handbook on the Geographies of Energy (2017). Book reviews: Chatti, Deepti. Review of The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh, The India Forum (2022) Chatti, Deepti. Review of Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan, American Anthropologist (2021) Chatti, Deepti. Review of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates, special issue of Seminar on Environmental Futures (2021) Chatti, Deepti. Review of Caring for Glaciers by Karine Gagné, Anthropologica (2020) Other writing (selected): Johnson, Amy, Paul Burow, Deepti Chatti, Chris Hebdon, and Michael R. Dove, “Anthropocene”, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology https://www.deeptichatti.com/home daily 1.0 2021-10-28 https://www.deeptichatti.com/teaching daily 0.75 2019-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5deaa9eb3d98727c5025322c/1575693541053-BNQLHHVTX2IHTQ48RT4V/IMG_20190808_152325.jpg Teaching - Teaching aims My main aim as a teacher is to help students develop the skills to learn from a diversity of disciplines and viewpoints, and to engage with the world in ways that they find meaningful and ethical. My pedagogical aims reflect my personal intellectual journey as a scholar, and are grounded in my belief that environmental issues are best understood and solved through an interdisciplinary lens. Pedagogical strategy The two key components of my pedagogical strategy are: 1) To introduce students to scholarship in different academic disciplines to encourage an interdisciplinary outlook to their learning; and 2) To teach students to critically examine knowledge claims from different disciplines so that they are aware of the benefits and pitfalls of using any particular lens to understand an environmental problem. Inclusive teaching I actively engage in efforts not only to diversify universities, but also to decolonize academic research and teaching. I am committed to building inclusive classrooms where diverse viewpoints are not only welcomed but are integral to the learning experience. My syllabi, instructional formats, classroom strategies, and mentoring reflect these intellectual and political commitments. Classes taught recently Power, Privilege, and Environment Environmental Studies Research and Analysis Energy Justice Gender, Development, Technology https://www.deeptichatti.com/about daily 0.75 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5deaa9eb3d98727c5025322c/1575747507789-6F9JNA1UE3ML0ZA39N84/deepti-P1077565.jpg About - About me I am an Assistant Professor of Climate Justice at the University of California, San Diego. I work in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the Critical Gender Studies Program. Using ethnographic research methods, I critically analyze sustainable development efforts to expand clean energy access and reduce exposures to air pollution in historically underserved communities in India and the United States. In India, my scholarship focuses on clean cooking energy transitions and household air pollution in low income homes which are the targets of development efforts. I have carried out long term fieldwork on these topics in collaboration with community-based organizations in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. In the United States, my research focuses on wildfires, smoke, access to electricity, and clean energy transitions of the grid. I have carried out research on these topics in collaboration with Native tribes in California. Prior to UC San Diego, I taught at Cal Poly Humboldt in the Department of Environmental Studies. My scholarship contributes to debates in environmental studies, political ecology, critical geography, development studies, feminist science and technology studies, and South Asian studies. Education: Ph.D. Yale University, Yale School of the Environment, with a graduate certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2019) M.Phil. Yale University, Yale School of the Environment (2015) M.S. Stanford University, Environmental Engineering and Science (2007) B.E. 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