Publications

Pareek, M. “The Social Organization of Climate Harm : Caste and Informal Labor in India.” Chapter in Climate Sociology Report, ed. Jo Lindsey and Debra Davidson. International Sociological Association Research Committee 24. Forthcoming.

Sanyal, P. & Pareek, M. “Can Credit Solve Poverty and Precarity? Explorations in the Margins of Metropolitan India.” Sociology of Development, Special Issue: Problem-Solving Sociology of Development, pp. 1–28, 2026.

Conference Presentations

Pareek, M. “The Making of Air Pollution: A Genealogy of Environmental Governance in Delhi.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, 2026.

Pareek, M. “Environmental Justice as Movement and Strategy: Non-Profits, Advocacy, and the Contested Boundaries of Social Change.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2025.

Pareek, M. “Precarious Labor and the Performative Politics of Climate Governance in the Anthropocene.” ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, 2025.

Pareek, M. “Reimagining Urban Ecologies: An Ethnographic Study of Climate-Justice Activism in Seattle.” ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, 2025.

Sanyal, P. & Pareek, M. “Women, Credit & Wealth in Working-class India.” Panel on Contemporary South Asia: Neoliberalism Reconfiguring Inequality, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Pre-Conference, Washington DC, 2024.

Sanyal, P. & Pareek, M. “Longitudinal Interviewing: How Time Makes Interviews More Telling.” Roundtable, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2023.

Invited Talks

Pareek, M. “Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination: Young Adults & Role of Universities.” Invited Speaker, Anvay — A Global Conference on Harassment & Discrimination Towards Positive Future, New Delhi, December 2023.

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