About
Dr. Mrinalini Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sharda School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sharda University, Greater Noida. She has completed her B.A. (Honours) in Political Science from Miranda House, University of Delhi; her M.A. in Political Science from University of Delhi; and her Ph.D. from Amity Institute of Social Sciences, Amity University, Noida. Her thesis was titled 'Refugees in the Era of Climate Emergency: An Analysis of the Precarity of Small Island Developing States.' Her research interests include climate politics, migration, human rights, environmental justice, politics of gender, and visual narratives. She has previously worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Amity University and a Field Investigator for a National Human Rights Commission-funded project. She has participated in conferences and paper presentation competitions, presenting on topics like capital-climate dissonance, the rhetoric of environmental protection, the emotional narrative of the global south concerning climate change, media representations of climate refugees, digitalisation of statehood in the era of climate emergency, connections between climate calamities and climate refugees, terminological discourse of climate refugees, the legality of same-sex marriage, the impact of COVID-19 on climate change, the source of human rights, and politics of citizenship. She has been published in Web of Science and UGC CARE journals and several poetry anthologies.