Dr. Aastha Tyagi

My doctoral work engaged with university students' socialisation and networks in an ideological movement in New Delhi, India. In this ethnographic study, I identified sites of socialisation and how the students articulated their own aspirations, while engaging with the larger ideology. One of the aspects that was crucial to the study was understanding how these students perceived and articulated their own agency in the group.

This desire to conceptually understand how we can study agency within social groups or movement has brought me to the Universtät Hamburg. As a postdoctoral researcher, I am mapping ways of understanding human agency vis-à- vis climate change, within the CLICCS network (Climate, Climatic Change and Society) through in-depth interviews and participant observation.