Rahul Ranjan is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Environmental and Climate Justice at the Department of Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (UK). Over the decade, he has ethnographically worked on the longstanding conflict between social movements, Indigenous peoples' struggles and extraction politics in India. H e has undertaken ethnographic fieldwork in the western Himalayas and conducted a short pilot study and consultation work in Aotearoa New Zealand — exploring countors of river’s rights and community mobilisation. His long-term research and doctoral work on “The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India” was published by the Cambridge University Press in 2023. He has recently edited a volume, “At the crossroads of Rights”, published by Routledge Press, London.