Mabel Denzin Gergan is Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her research is based in the Indian Himalayan region and examines its relationship with ‘mainland’ India. She is a scholar of environmental justice, indigeneity, and race with special interests in political ecology, environmental humanities, and decolonial theorizing. She is the founding member of an editorial and writing collective, Desirable Futures that brings together scholars theorizing colonial constructions of time and futurity at the intersection of Black, Indigenous, and decolonial geographies.