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The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN)

Dr Ekta Oza

Ekta

Independent researcher, India

Email: ekta.ektaoza@gmail.com

Profile

Ekta received her PhD in Geography from Queen Mary University of London. Her research seeks to understand the experiences of children and young people growing up in India-occupied-Kashmir, and the extent to which everyday practices of peaceful living, friendship making, and play (re)produce spaces for everyday resistance in the context of the ongoing conflict. Prior to her doctoral studies, Ekta has worked as a child psychologist and as a researcher working on children and young people’s everyday experiences of living in a resettlement colony in New Delhi.

Research

Publications

Oza, Ekta, Philippa Williams, and Lipika Kamra. "Digital denizenship: Hindu nationalist architectures of digital closings and unbelonging in India." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2024): 23996544241226813.

Expertise

Geographies of childhood, geographies of peace and conflict, psychoanalysis, ethnographic methodologies
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