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Krittika Uniyal is a Swiss Excellence Fellow currently pursuing her PhD in environment and sustainable development at the Environmental Governance and Territorial Development Institute, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research interests encompass sustainability, critical infrastructure, development imaginaries, aviation geopolitics, and foreign direct investments. Her doctoral research delves into the techno-politics of commercial aviation infrastructure in the mid-Himalayan region. She places a strong emphasis on interpreting large-scale interventions like airports as multifaceted sociotechnical accomplishments, combining elements of discourse, materiality, temporality, spatiality, and power dynamics, through the lens of techno-politics. Krittika’s research received the Swiss Network for International Studies Research Award for young scholars and has been funded by the Ernst et Lucie Schmidheiny Foundation.
In the past, Krittika served as a research assistant at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Nepal, where she investigated the cross-border historical trade routes of the Bhotiya community across the trans-Himalayan region. She holds a master’s degree in politics with a specialization in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
RCC Project: Contested Aerial Routes: Techno-Politics of Commercial Aviation Infrastructure in the Central Himalayan Region