Biography:

David Singh is a researcher in sociology and geography of development at the CSH. He holds a joint PhD in development studies from the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom) and University of Copenhagen (Denmark). Before joining CSH, David Singh was a postdoctoral researcher in ERC Urban Frontiers held at the University of Copenhagen (P.I Christian Lund) and remains an associated researcher in this project as well as to the Centre des Etudes Sud-Asiatiques et Himalayennes (CESAH, Paris).

His research focuses since 2019 on issues of territorialisation, resource politics, citizenship, land access, and energy infrastructures in India. He has published in numerous journals and co-edited a volume on the Indian Farmers’ Protest of 2020-2021 (Routledge).

At CSH, David is starting a new research project on the social and political transformations linked to India’s expanding energy transition and extractive economies, with a focus on how these developments reshape local communities, land use, and citizenship in frontier regions.

Recent publications:

• Singh, David (co-ed), 2024, The Indian Farmers’ Protest of 2020–2021: Agrarian Crisis, Dissent and Identity. Delhi: Routledge India. The Indian Farmers’ Protest of 2020–2021: Agrarian Crisis, Dissent (routledge.com)
• Singh, David, 2024, ‘Resisting or Negotiating Wind Energy Dispossession: Class and Caste in Changing Rural Kutch’. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2400678
• Singh, David, 2024, ‘A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat’. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2024.2376595