HANSRAJ COLLEGE

University of Delhi

NAAC Grade A++ with CGPA 3.71 NIRF Rank # 3 (Amongst Colleges)

History

Dr. Justin Mathew

Associate Professor | Department of History

Contact (Off.): 8800818847

Email Address : justinmathew[at]hrc[dot]du[dot]ac[dot]in

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  • Urban-Environmental History of Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia
  • Marxism and the Political Economy of Nature
  • Maritime History and Port-City Formations in the Indian Ocean World

 

  • PhD in Modern History , , CeMIS, Georg August University, Gottingen, Germany
  • MPhil in Modern History , 2006 , CHS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
  • MA History , 2003 , School of Social Sciences, MG, University, Kottayam, Kerala
  • BA History , 2000 , Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Department of History, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, Delhi-11007

  • Associate Professor, 2022-present
  • Assistant Professor, 2009-2022
  • Assistant Professor (Guest Basis), 2008-2009

Department of History, CMS College, Kottayam, Kerala, 686001

  • Lecturer (Guest Basis), 2003-2004

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • 2022-2025 Member, Board of Studies, Department of History, Sree Shankara University, Kalady, Kerala
  • 2022-24 Member, Board of Studies, Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST, Deemed to be University, Delhi-NCR
  • 2022: Convener and Member, NEP UG History Courses' Revision Committee, Department of History, University of Delhi, for the following courses: 
  1. Global Environmental History 
  2. Environmental History of the Indian Subcontinent 
  3. Politics of Nature
  4. Nature in Human History
  5. Environmental Issues in India
  6. The climate in Human History 
  • 2020-2024 Distinguished Scholar, Multidisciplinary Programme in Social Sciences (IMPS), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.
  • 2020-2024 Member, Board of Studies, Multidisciplinary Programme in Social Sciences (IMPS), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.
  • 2019 Member, Board of Studies for LOCF UG Courses, Department of History, University of Delhi
  • 2014-2016, Member, Board of Studies, School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.
  • Subject committee member for BA History, Equal Opportunity Cell, University of Delhi. 

 

 

  • Global Environmental History
  • Environmental History of the Indian Subcontinent
  • Fundamentals of Historical Methodology
  • History of Modern Europe

 

RESEARCH SUPERVISION  

  • Department of History, University of Delhi- 1 PhD in Environmental History (current supervision)
  • Department of History, University of Calicut, Kerala (Co-supervision)-1 PhD in Environmental History
  • Department of History, Hansraj College, 2 Fourth year UG Dissertations (Current project)

RESEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER

  • Department of History, University of Delhi- 1
  • Department of History, Sree Shankara University of Sanskrit, Kerala- 2
  • School of History, SciencesPo, Paris, France -1

2025-26:

  • Convener, Creative Writing Society

2024-25:

  • Teacher-in-Charge, Department of History

2023-24

  • Deputy Superintendent of Examination, Hansraj College 
  • Convener, Environmental Awareness Society (Haritima)
  • Member, Timetable Committee 

2022-23

  • Convener, Environmental Awareness Society (Haritima)
  • Member, Timetable Committee 

2021-22

  • Convener, College Timetable Committee, Arts and Commerce
  • Member, College Workload Committee, Arts and Commerce 

2020-21

  • Teacher-in-Charge, Department of History
  • Convener, College Timetable Committee, Arts and Commerce
  • Member, Apex Committee for Online Education 

2019-20

  • Convener, Environmental Awareness Committee, Hansraj College 

2018-19

  • Teacher-in-Charge, Department of History
  • Convener, Environmental Awareness Committee
  • Member, Equal Opportunity Cell, Hansraj College

2017-18

  • Member, Enabling Unit 
  • Member, College Discipline Committee

2013-14

  • Member, Garden Committee, Hansraj College 
  • Advisor, Enabling Unit, Hansraj College 

2012-13

  • Teacher-in-Charge, Department of History
  • Convener, English Debating Society
  • Advisor, Enabling Unit, Hansraj College 

2011-12

  • Convener, English Debating Society
  • Convener, English Dramatics Society
  • Seminar-in-Charge, Department of History
  • Coordinator, Enabling Unit, Hansraj College 

2010-11

  • Member, Equal Opportunity Cell, Hansraj College 
  • Seminar-in-Charge, Department of History, Hansraj College  

2009-10

  • Seminar-in-Charge, Department of History 

PhD: Geographies of Accumulation: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Urbanisation of Cochin, c. 1860-1945

MPhil: Churning the Backwaters: Empire and Harbour Building in Cochin 1920-1939 

  • The Climate Crisis, Vulnerabilities, and the Preservation of Urban Heritage Sites in Delhi, Independent Research Project funded by the Research and Development Cell, Hansraj College (2024) 
  • Faculty Coordinator, Project Chetana, Environmental Awareness Society, Hansraj College, 2018-19. 
  • Faculty Coordinator, WWF India Youth Programme-Environmental Awareness Projects 2018-19. 

2015. "Port Building and Urban Modernity: Cochin 1920–1945." In Kerala Modernity: Ideas, Spaces, Practices in Transition, edited by Satheesh Chandra Bose and Shiju Sam Varghese, 74–91. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan.“Port Building and Urban Modernity: Cochin 1920-1945‟ in Bose, Satheesh Chandra and Shiju Sam Varghese, eds. Kerala Modernity: Ideas, Spaces, Practices in Transition. (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2015), ISBN No. 978-93-86392-65-7. 

2021. "Climate Change Studies and the Anthropocene," in Prasad Pannian, ed. Are You Human: Manushyethara Manavikataykku Oramukhan (Kottayam: DC Books, 2021), ISBN No. 978-93-54321-47-4. 

2020. “Colonialism and Environment: Green Imperialism,” in History of Environment, CBCS course material of Indira Gandhi National Open University. Website link: https://www.egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/76829/1/Unit-8.pdf 

PUBLICATIONS  

  1. 2025b. "Waste and Urban Environmental Crisis in Cochin: The Case of Brahmapuram Landfill." Current World Environment 20 (April): 1–9.
  2. 2025a. "Colonialism and the Evolution of Modern Banking System in India." International Journal of Creative Research and Thoughts 13 (January): 304–311.
  3. 2024d. "Mining." In Environmental Histories of the Indian Subcontinent, 282–294. Delhi: IGNOU.
  4. 2024c. "Locating Delhi Farmers Protests of 2020–21 as an Environmental Justice Movement." NCC Review 144.
  5. 2024b. "An Urban Environmental History of Mining: Metal Mining and Urban Appropriation of Nature in Zawar, Rajasthan." Rajasthan History Congress Proceedings 37: 216–225.
  6. 2024a. "The Challenges of Democratic Path: Decolonisation Studies and Historicising the Constitution of India." Third Concept 38 (May): 7–13.
  7. 2023. "Capitalism, Climate Crisis, and Methodological Challenges in Environmental History." Economic and Political Weekly 58, no. 27 (July): 1–13.
  8. 2022. "Badge of Labour: Marginal Lives of the Labouring Poor in the Port of Cochin." In South Asia Chronicles, 329–346. Berlin: Humboldt University.
  9. 2021b. "Climate Change Studies and the Anthropocene." In Are You Human: Manushyethara Manavikataykku Oramukhan, 300–327. Kottayam: DC Books.
  10. 2021a. "Richard Grove and Environmental History of the Global Periphery: Hortus Malabaricus muthal El Niño Vare." (In Malayalam). Chengazi 1, no. 6: 21–29.
  11. 2020. "Race and Slavery in the Reparatory History of the United States." (In Malayalam). Sahitya Lokam 6: 6–22.
  12. 2018. "Steam Shipping and Uneven Urbanisation: Cochin, Southwest India, c. 1860s to 1914." Journal of Indian History XCVI–XCVII: 11–29.
  13. 2017. "Democracy and Unfreedom: The History of Ancient Greece for our Times." Journal of Indian History XCIV–XCV.

Book Reviews

  1. 2025. Review of Profit: An Environmental History, by Mark Stoll. American Historical Review 130, no. 1 (March): 446–47. 
  2. 2023. 'Agola Mooladhavaum Dakshinendyayile Thottamthozhilalikalum (Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India)' by K. Raviraman, Economic and Political Weekly LVIII, No. 33 (Aug.), 31-34. ISSN No. 0012-9976.
  3. 2021. 'Coolies Great War: The Social History of World War I,” Tapasam Vol. XVII, no. 1 &2, 2021, 72-180. ISSN No. 2249-9873.

Popular Articles: 

  • 2021. "Sunderlal Bahuguna: Prophet of Nature." Samakalika Malayalam Vaarika 25, no. 4 (June 7): 40–51.
  • 2020c. "Neoliberalisation of Education and Classroom Experiences of Students." Navamalayali Magazine, June 10, 2020. https://navamalayali.com/2020/06/10/neoliberal-exams-and-students/.
  • 2020b. "Pandemic and the Right to the City." Navamalayali Online Magazine, May 23, 2020. https://navamalayali.com/2020/05/23/column-justin-mathew/.
  • 2020a. "The Constitution and Social Justice: A Manifesto for Decolonisation." Navamalayali Magazine, February 29, 2020. https://navamalayali.com/2020/02/29/article-justin-mathew/.
  • 2019b. "Panama Canal and the Divided History of Globalisation." Navamalayali Magazine, December 24, 2019. https://navamalayali.com/2019/12/24/second-nature-column-by-justin-mathew/.
  • 2019a. "Capitalocene and the Marxian Interpretation of Nature." Navamalayali Magazine, November 21, 2019. https://navamalayali.com/2019/11/21/column-second-nature-justin/.
  • "Neoliberal Policies and Higher Education Reforms in India." Madhyamam Weekly 17, no. 20.
  • "Autonomy and Higher Education: A Case of Kerala Colleges." Mathrubhumi Daily, May 14, 2013, 4.
  • "Ramayana Readings and Historical Research." Mangalam Daily, December 17, 2011, 6.

International Conferences 

  1. 2026. “Urban Environmental History: Possibilities in the Context of Kerala.” Invited lecture at the Three-Day International Conference on Historiography since the Formation of Modern Kerala, Department of History, University of Kerala, March 11–13.
  2. 2025. “International Conference on Ecologies of the Future: Environmental Humanities for Global Sustainability.” Keynote lecture at the Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR, February 6.
  3. 2023. “Development in Mountains: Issues, Challenges and Solutions.” Inaugural address at the Third Himachal Pradesh Sociological Society Conference, December 11–12.
  4. 2023. “Connected Stories.” Invited lecture at the International Conference on Environment and Society, Department of History, University of Maranhao, Sao Luis, Brazil, November 21–24.
  5. 2023.“The Political Ecology of a Colonial Harbour Building Project: Cochin Backwaters, Southwest India, 1920-39.” Paper presented at the European Society for Environmental History Conference, Bristol, UK, 25-28 July.
  6. 2017. “Colonial Ports and Geographies of Accumulation, Cochin, Southwest India (1860-1945).” Paper presented at the Colloquium Series, German Historical Institute, London, 17 September.
  7. 2016. “The Maritime Infrastructure Project and Urban Modernity.” Paper presented at the workshop “On the Concept and Methodology of Multiple Modernities and Global Theory,” Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen, December.
  8. 2016. “British Free Trade and Princely Monopoly: Colonial Port and the Geographies of Accumulation in Southwest India, 1850s-1870s.” Paper presented at the workshop “Studying Capitalist Phenomena in Time,” Uppsala Lab of Economic Sociology, Uppsala, Sweden, December.

Invited Talks and Conference Participation

  1. 2026. ‘Why Environmental History Matters Today: An Interdisciplinary Approach for the Future’, National Seminar on ‘Trends in Historiography: Regional Studies and Environmental Perspectives’ organised by the Department of History, Sree Sankara Vidyapeetom College, Valayanchirangara, 16 January.
  2. 2026. Resource Person at the Two-Day National Conference on ‘Rethinking Keralam: Landscapes and Social Configurations’, 14–15 January.
  3. 2024. ‘An Urban-Environmental History of Mining: Metal Mining and Urban Appropriation of Nature in Zawar, Rajasthan’. Paper presented at the 37th Rajasthan History Conference, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 23–24 February.
  4. 2024. “New Directions in Urban History”. Keynote Speaker at the two-day National Seminar on Urban Studies organised by the Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore Yeshwanthapur Campus, 15–16 March.
  5. 2024. “New Directions in Urban History: Reflections in the Context of Cochin”. Inaugural lecture, Cochin Study Centre, St. Joseph’s College, Irinjalakuda, Thrissur, Kerala, 18 March.
  6. 2024. “Urbanisation of the Sahyadris: A Critical Environmental History of the Munnar-Cochin Plantation Hill Road (c. 1860–1939)”, Department of History, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, 1 February.
  7. 2024. “Youth Migration and Higher Education”. Invited lecture in the second National Youth Seminar organised by the Kerala State Youth Commission, 31 January.
  8. 2024. ‘Historical Perspective on the Climate Crisis: Methodological Challenges’. Invited talk at the Short-Term Course on ‘Research Methodology’ organised by UGC-MMTTC, Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu, December.
  9. 2022. ‘What History Means in the Contemporary World’. Two-hour lecture for the online certificate course ‘Academic Writing, Research Methodology, and New Frontiers of Research for Humanities and Social Sciences’, Student Learning Centre, IQAC, and Department of English, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, 15–29 January.
  10. 2022. ‘Climate Change and Writing Environmental History’. Lecture presented at the Faculty Development Programme on ‘Historical Method and Theory’ organised by UGC-STRIDE, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, in collaboration with UC College, Aluva, 5 February.
  11. 2022. ‘Critical Climate History: A Marxist Historical Perspective in the Age of Global Warming’. Special lecture at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Programmes in Social Sciences (IMPSS), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, 18 March.
  12. 2022. ‘Climate Crisis, the Anthropocene, and Critical Environmental History’. Paper presented at the Lecture Series, Department of History, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, March.
  13. 2022. ‘Agrarian and Environmental Movements in Intersectional Perspective’. Invited talk at the Ten-Day Short-Term Course on Intersectionality Studies organised by the Dakshayani Velayudhan Centre for Women’s Studies, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala, 17–26 March.
  14. 2021. ‘Marine Infrastructure Projects and Environmental Justice: A Case of Cochin Harbour’. Invited lecture organised by the Department of History, University of Calicut, Kerala, 5 June.
  15. 2021. ‘Delhi Farmers’ Movement: Why It Matters to Environmental Justice’. Lecture at the Department of Political Science, Government College, Madappally, Kerala, 16 August.
  16. 2021. ‘Critical Geography and Rethinking the History of Urbanisation’. Paper presented as part of the Seven-Day Online National Conference on ‘Critique and Constructions: Contemporary Writings on Histories of Keralam’ organised by the Department of History, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, 2 March.
  17. 2020. ‘The Urbanisation of Backwaters: A Political Ecology of the Cochin Harbour Project’. Lecture presented as part of the International Webinar Series organised by the Kerala Council for Historical Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 13 October.
  18. 2020. ‘Thinking about the Past in the History Classroom’. Special lecture organised by the Department of History, UC College, Aluva, Kerala, 13 November.
  19. 2019. ‘The Concept of Nature and Writing History: Lessons from the Great Floods of 1924 and 2018’. Lecture at Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala, 17 January.
  20. 2019. ‘Historical Geography and Critical Urban Theory’. Lecture at the Department of History, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala, 18 January.
  21. 2019. ‘Studying Contemporary History: A Critical Perspective’. Invited talk at the Department of History, Henry Baker College, Melukavu, Kerala, 28 June.
  22. 2019. ‘Mapping Independent India: Language-Based State Formations as the History of Decolonisation’. Special lecture at Pavanatma College, Murickassery, Kerala, 1 July.
  23. 2015. Invited Lecture for the Foundational Training Programme for Indian Telecommunications Service Officer Trainees. Indian Institute of Public Administration, Delhi, 13 January.
  24. 2007. ‘Region, Modernity and History Writing: Narratives from the Western Ghats’. Keynote lecture presented at the National Seminar, Department of History, Pavanatma College, Murikkassery, Kerala, 16 January.
  25. 2007. ‘Cochin in the Indian Ocean World Economy: 1920–1945’. Lecture presented at the Seminar Series, School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, August.
  26. 2007. ‘Imagining Backwaters as Harbour Space: Cochin in the Era of Steam, 1870–1914’. Paper presented in the Research Scholars’ Paper Presentation Series, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, November.
  27. 2006. ‘Local and Imperial Knowledge in the Work Process: Building of the Cochin Harbour, 1920–1939’. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Labour History organised by the Association of Indian Labour Historians, Delhi, November.

Workshop Participation

  1. 2025. Resource Person for the Three-Day Workshop on UGCF-NEP 2020 History Courses, Department of History, University of Delhi, 14–16 October.
  2. 2025. Resource Person at the One-Day Workshop on ‘Doing South Asian Environmental History: A Workshop on Methods’, Department of History, Farook College, Kozhikode, Kerala, 18 March.
  3. 2023. ‘Critical Environmental Histories’. Short-term course offered at the Institute for Multidisciplinary Programmes in Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, April–June.
  4. 2023. Resource Person at the Two-Day National Workshop on ‘Writing History: Sources and Methods’, UC College, Aluva, 4–5 February.
  5. 2021. ‘Introduction to Environmental History’. Short-term online seminar course offered at the Institute for Multidisciplinary Programmes in Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, July–August.
  6. 2021. Coordinator for the one-week Faculty Development Programme on ‘Historiography and Research Methodology’ organised by the Department of History, Hansraj College, in collaboration with Mahatma Hansraj Faculty Development Centre, 19–24 April.
  7. 2021. Organised a one-day National Workshop on ‘Decolonisation and Studying the History of Contemporary India’, Department of History, Hansraj College, 13 February.
  8. 2020. ‘Marxism and Critical Geography’. Short-term online seminar course offered at the Dialectical Research Forum, Kalady, Kerala, in October.
  9. 2019. Organised a one-day workshop on the CBCS-LOCF GE course ‘Politics of Nature’, Department of History, University of Delhi, 20 November.
  10. 2012. Participant in the Summer School on ‘The Indian Ocean World and Eurasian Connections: Networks of Connectivities: Routes, Commodities, and the Politics of the Indian Ocean’, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 25–30 July.

Discussant

  • 2025 Discussant and Moderator of a plenary session titled “Impact of Climate Change on Health and Gender” at the International Seminar on Climate Education for Sustainable Future organised by the Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi, Ramjas College, and Education International Asia-Pacific, India International Centre, 29 Aug.
  • 2024 Discussant of a Research Paper Presented at the Second Annual Workshop of the South Asian Global History Network on “Writing Global History: Perspective from Global South” held at the Department of History, University of Delhi, 8-9 March.
  • 2023. Discussant of the Research Papers Presented at the Research Conclave titled “Locality and Region: Literature, History and Culture” organised by Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, 12 Sept.

Organisation of Conferences, Workshops and FDPs

  1. 2026 Seventh Undergraduate History Conference “Experience, Agency and Everyday Life in History” Hansraj College, 28 March.
  2. 2025 Sixth Undergraduate History Conference “Doing Oral Environmental History”, Hansraj College, 14 April 2025.
  3. 2024. One-Day Workshop on Gender and Historical Thinking, Department of History, Hansraj College, 5 Oct.
  4. 2024 Fifth Undergraduate History Conference “Animals in History", 13 April.
  5. 2023 Fourth Undergraduate History Conference “New Directions in Urban History: Culture, Climate, and Environment, Hansraj College, 25 Feb.
  6. 2022 Third Undergraduate History Conference “Climate Change and Critical History”, Hansraj College, 20 March.
  7. 2021 One Week Interdisciplinary Faculty Development Programme on “Historiography and Research Methodology”, Department of History in Collaboration with Mahatma Hansraj Faculty Development Centre, 19-24 April.
  8. 2021 Second Undergraduate History Conference “Dissent in History”, Department of History, 20 March.
  9. 2021 One Day National Workshop on “Decolonisation and Studying the History of Contemporary India”, Hansraj College, 13 Feb.
  10. 2020 One Day Workshop on the CBCS-LOCF GE Courses, Department of History, University of Delhi, 20 Nov.
  11. 2019 One Day Workshop on “Gender and History”, Department of History, 26 March.
  12. 2019 First Undergraduate History Conference “Grassroot Politics and Writing History”, Hansraj College, 13 March.

FELLOWSHIPS 

  • 2017: PhD Scholarship, German Historical Institute, London.
  • 2014-2017 Erasmus Mundus PhD Fellowship. 
  • 2008: Indian Council of Social Science Research-Centre for Studies in Developing Societies Junior Research Fellowship, 2008.
  • 2007: Junior Research Fellowship, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, India.
  • 2006: Fellow, Students Stipendship Programme on Research on City 2004-2005, Sarai, Centre for Studies in Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi, India. 
  • 2005: Research Grant, Indian Council of Historical Research  

FDP/MOOCs attended

  • Attended a one-week Faculty Development Programme on "Roadmap for Building New India with New Education Policy", Mahatma Hansraj FDP Centre, 21 to 25 July 2021. 
  • Attended One-Week Faculty Development Programme on "Student-Centric Pedagogic Methods," Mahatma Hansraj FDP Centre, 27 January to 2 February 2021. 
  • Attended One-Week Faculty Development Programme on "Intellectual Property Rights", Mahatma Hansraj FDP Centre, 10 to 17 February 2021. 
  • Seven Weeks MOOC on “The Modern World Part One: Global History From 1760 to 1910,” University of Virginia, /83J9AUYHLXUD (coursera.org), 2020
  • Seven Weeks MOOC on “The Ancient Greeks,” Wesleyan University, USA, X89CXQVKPFN2(coursera.org), 2019.
  • Seven Weeks MOOC on “The Modern World Part Two: Global History Since 1910,” University of Virginia, GKW6WCU4JP5B(coursera.org), 2019. 
  • Attended seven-day FDP on “E-content Generation and Managing Online Teaching, ” Mahatma Hansraj FDP Centre, Hansraj College, 11 to 17 Dec 2020. 
  • Attended seven-day FDP on “Moving Towards New Normal through Effective Online Teaching,” Mahatma Hansraj FDP Centre, Hansraj College, 1 Dec to 7 Dec. 2017.
  • Attended seven-day FDP on “Higher Education: Road Ahead-Developing Next Generation Academic Leaders, Teaching Learning Centre, Ramanujan College (online and self-paced), 25 Nov to 1 Dec 2020. 
  • Attended seven days FDP course in Humanities and social theory (History), UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, University of Kerala and MSM College, Kerala, 07 Oct to 14 Oct 2020. 
  • Attended one-month Orientation Programme (OR 77), CPDHE, University of Delhi, 23 June to 19 July 2014
  • Attended a three-week Refresher Course (History), UGC-Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 7 to 27 February 2014.  

Field Work Experience and Archival Research

2008-2019

  • Cochin Regional Archives and Thiruvananthapuram Regional Archives, Kerala
  • Archives of Cochin Port, Cochin Municipal Corporation, Cochin Chamber of
  • Commerce, the Indian Chamber of Commerce and various trade union offices
  • Fieldwork among various port communities in Cochin
  • National Archives of India; Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
  • India Office Records and Library, London, UK
  • Metropolitan Archives, London, UK
  • Centre of South Asian Studies Archives, Cambridge, UK
  • Glasgow University Archives, UK
  • Greenwich Maritime Museum Archives, UK
  • City Archives, Winterthur, Switzerland

PODCASTS AND PUBLIC LECTURES

Podcast

  • Second Nature: https://www.youtube.com/@SecondNaturewithJustinMathew

Public Lectures:

  • The Urbanisation of Backwaters, KCHR, Kerala (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjfEjNIPzQA&t=1351s
  • Critical Geography and Rethinking the History of Urbanisation, SSUS Kalady (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEiCfJiX8A0&t=20s
  • Capitalism and the Idea of Nature, Dialectical Research Forum, Kalady: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4gSM1lXlQ8&t=128s
  • Geographies of Uneven Development, Dialectical Research Forum, Kalady:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIL9UsELfJw&t=638s

  • ‘The Production of Social Space, Dialectical Research Forum, Kalady:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1PQjQmA-Jc&t=2937s

 

Others:

  • Vice Chairman, Kerala Educational Society, Kerala School, Canning Road, Delhi, 2023-present 
  • Member (Educationalist), School Management Committee, Kerala School, Mayur Vihar, Phase 3, Delhi
  • President, Staff Association, Hansraj College, 2024-2026
  • Secretary, Staff Association, Hansraj College, 2013-14
  • Secretary, Thrift and Credit Society, Hansraj College, 2012-14
  • In-Charge, Tea Club, Hansraj College, 2012-14
     
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