Hanna Geschewski
Visiting Fellow
Hanna Geschewski is a fourth-year doctoral researcher in Human Geography based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the University of Bergen in Norway. Her research focuses on the social-environmental dimensions of long-term displacement, particularly in the case of Tibetan refugees in rural South India and Nepal. Using primarily qualitative methods, she examines transformations in agriculture, cultivation, human-land relations and rural livelihoods among Tibetan refugees over the past six decades.
Hanna holds an MSc in Environmental and Sustainability Studies from Lund University, Sweden, and a B.Sc. (Honours) in Environmental Science from Kathmandu University, Nepal. She has many years of academic and professional experience in South Asia and the Himalayan region, with previous engagements, among others, with the German Development Cooperation and a solar energy non-profit. Her previous research, which focused on development-induced displacement, environmental and social justice issues and agricultural livelihoods, has appeared in the Journal of Political Ecology and HIMAL Southasian, as well as in the recently published book Contested Airport Land: Social-Spatial Transformation and Environmental Injustice in Asia and Africa, released by Routledge.