Upasana Goswami

Upasana is a researcher and organizer from Assam (Northeast India) and currently a doctoral student in Sociology at UMass Amherst. Inspired by and drawing from indigenous studies and decolonial feminisms, her work focuses on how different social movements and actors in India understand and mobilize the language and politics of indigeneity and decoloniality. Previously, during her time at the North Eastern Social Research Center, she worked with indigenous feminist movements in the Northeast to document the shifts in gendered land relations at the intersections of tribal customary law and neoliberal development programs. Her writing has appeared in Asian Ethnicity, The Jugaad Project, and Scroll, among others. She is also actively involved in building community and alternative worlds with solidarity economy movements across the unceded ancestral homelands of the Norwottuck, the Nipmuc, the Wabanaki and the Abenaki peoples.