School of Social and Political Science

Nabanita Samanta

PhD Student

Image of Nabanita wearing a pink jumper, a jeans, and a spectacle. She is standing by a stream of water, with the blue sky and few trees visible around her.
N.Samanta-1@sms.ed.ac.uk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabanita-samanta-74704b213/
Chrystal Macmillan Building
15a George Square
Edinburgh
Scotland, United Kingdom
EH8 9LD

Research interests

Energy, environment and sustainability Governance & Democracy Methods South Asian studies
  • Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology
  • Anthropology of Logistics
  • Critical Infrastructure Studies 
  • Anthropology of Development 
  • Anthropology of Time and Future-making
  • Critical Ocean and Coastal Studies, Blue Humanities
  • Studies of Affect and Resistance
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Regional focus: Bengal Delta, India, South Asia

Background

Nabanita is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology and a Chrystal Macmillan Doctoral Fellow (2025-2028) at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. With a distinctive leaning for transdisciplinary research, her currently ongoing doctoral project forges conversations across anthropology, geography, and environmental humanities as she ethnographically explores the processes and imaginaries at play in transforming the Bay of Bengal’s littoral zones into techno-infrastructural scaffolds for logistical futures.

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