M. (Mausumi) Chetia
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Postbus 15509
1001 NA Amsterdam
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Profile
Mausumi is a researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam.
As an interdisciplinary academic and researcher, she works on climate-related disasters, (im)mobilities, and their multilevel governance. She is especially interested in exploring critical narratives and everyday practices of social justice and working with displaced/at-risk climate-vulnerable communities.
As a postdoctoral researcher, Mausumi is part of the REPAIR project, hosted by the department. REPAIR is a European Research Council funded 5-year project that studies contemporary calls for reparations across the issues of global development challenges. They include disease outbreaks, nuclear harms, and climate change.
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Research
Research methods
- Ethnography
- Critical Discourse and Political Analysis
Current research projects
Mausumi’s research looks at the call for reparations in the context of climate change and land loss. Her focus is on the Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) with a focus on Fiji, Pacific region.
She coordinates the REPAIR Lecture Series. It is a platform where experts, community members, and policy leaders share their work on diverse aspects of reparations. The audience includes academic and non-academic participants.
- Research grants & honours
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Current cooperations
- Platform on Disaster Displacement, Member, Advisory Committee
- Research Fellow, Centre for Governance of Migration and Diversity, Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities
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Teaching & PhD supervision
- B.A. Lead and Teacher, Theme course, Anthropology of Disasters, B.A. 3rd Year, 2024-2025
- Guest Lecturer, Anthropology of South Asia, 2024-2025
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Publications
2024
Chetia, M. M. (2024). Resistance as Resilience: Women’s (Un)Evolving Roles in Generationally Disaster-affected Communities in Assam, India. In S. Mitra, & R. Shaw (Eds.), Disaster Risk Reduction and Rural Resilience: With a Focus on Agriculture, Water, Gender and Technology (pp. 175-194). (Disaster Risk Reduction). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6671-0_10 [details]
2025
- Chetia, M. (2025). Climate Reparations and the Refusal to be Invisibilised: International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion and its Implications. Web publication or website, The Loss & Damage Collaboration. https://www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/climate-reparations-and-the-refusal-to-be-invisibilised-international-court-of-justices-advisory-opinion-and-its-implications
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Ancillary activities
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Chetia, M. M. (2024). Resistance as Resilience: Women’s (Un)Evolving Roles in Generationally Disaster-affected Communities in Assam, India. In S. Mitra, & R. Shaw (Eds.), Disaster Risk Reduction and Rural Resilience: With a Focus on Agriculture, Water, Gender and Technology (pp. 175-194). (Disaster Risk Reduction). Springer.