Shubhra Gururani is the Director of the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) and Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University. Her areas of research and teaching lie at the intersection of critical political ecologies, space and place, urban transformation, agrarian change, and histories of science and nature. She has conducted extensive ethnographic and archival fieldwork in the Indian Himalayas. She examines how long and complex histories of scientific forestry and colonialism produced the highly gendered and racialized landscape of property, labour, access, and knowledge.