Energy and Environmental Justice

Mukul Kumar. 2023. Violent Transitions: Towards a Political Ecology of Coal and Hydropower in India. Climate and Development, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2023.2264259

Mukul Kumar. 2022. Fossil Neoliberalism and its Limits: Governing coal in South India. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 5(4): 1853–1871

Mukul Kumar. 2021. Disassembling Coal: Finance Capital, Environmental Law, and the Right to Information in South India. Antipode. 53 (4): 1124-1142

Nityanand Jayaraman and Mukul Kumar. 2016. There is no power shortage in the country. Scroll. August 18

Geographies from the Global South

Mukul Kumar. 2023. Environmental Racism and the Global Political Ecology of Industrial Disasters. Ecology, Economy and Society-the INSEE Journal. 6(2): 197-204

Mukul Kumar and Ananya Roy. 2019. Before Subaltern Studies: The Epistemology of Property. In Tariq Jazeel and Stephen Legg eds., Subaltern Geographies: Subaltern Studies, Space and the Geographical Imagination. Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press

Navyug Gill and Mukul Kumar. 2019. Agrarian Labor, Caste, and the Limits of Conversion: A Conversation with Navyug Gill. AsiaNow. April 17

Hannah Appel and Mukul Kumar. 2015. Finance. In Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta eds., “The Infrastructure Toolbox,” Theorizing the Contemporary. Fieldsights. September 24

Urban Political Ecology

Mukul Kumar. 2017. At the City’s Margins: Coal, Land, and Livelihoods in Chennai. The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy. Policy Report No. 20

Mukul Kumar. 2016. Gasping for Breath: Coal, Air Pollution, and Public Health in Chennai. The Arena. June 22

Mukul Kumar, K. Saravanan, and Nityanand Jayaraman. 2014. Mapping the Coastal Commons: Fisherfolk and the Politics of Coastal Urbanization in Chennai. Economic and Political Weekly. Review of Urban Affairs. 48(49): 46-53

Mukul Kumar. 2014. Neither the city nor sea will relent. Down to Earth. September 3 

Manuel Castells and Mukul Kumar. 2014. A Conversation with Manuel Castells. Berkeley Planning Journal. 27(1): 93-99

Higher Education and Critical University Studies

Zachary Bleemer, Mukul Kumar, Aashish Mehta, Chris Muellerleile, and Christopher Newfield. 2023. Metrics that Matter: Counting What’s Really Important to College Students. Critical University Studies Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Charlie Eaton, Jacob Habinek, Mukul Kumar, Tamera Lee Stover, Alex Roehrkasse, and Jeremy Thompson. 2013. Swapping Our Future: How Students and Taxpayers Are Funding Risky UC Borrowing and Wall Street Profits. Berkeley Journal of Sociology. Critical Approaches to Financialization. (57): 178-199

Charlie Eaton, Adam Goldstein, Jacob Habinek, Mukul Kumar, Tamera Lee Stover, and Alex Roehrkasse. 2013. Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Financialization of Governance at the University of California. Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Working Paper. No. 151013