social sciences conference

Dr. Barnali Sarkar

Animals in the Locality: Environmental Disaster, Disability and Human–Animal Spatial Identity Politics in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007)

University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Past Speaker

Dr. Barnali Sarkar is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland. She was awarded a PhD in 2017 for a thesis on postcolonial identity politics. Her research interests include interdisciplinary sub-disciplines of environmental humanities and human geography. She is currently working on a project that explicates various dimensions of human–nonhuman encounters in contemporary novels.