Raka Sen
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Mail code: 3051Campus: West
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Raka Sen is a sociologist in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. She teaches in the Social Justice and Human Rights Program. Raka co-envisioned the Climate and Community Hub to uplift Indigenous worldviews and reimagine the role of climate science through a decolonial lens. Her research interests include environmental, labor, urban, gender, migration and development studies. Situated at the intersection of all of these subjects, Sen's works to understand how climate change and development are reshaping the everyday lives of local people in the Sundarban region of India and Bangladesh. Building off of ethnographic engagement and a longitudinal survey, she aims to challenge traditional notions of climate adaptation in lieu of theoretical frameworks that better encapsulate the lived realities of people facing climate change right now.
PhD. University of Pennsylvania
Falzon, Danielle and Raka Sen. 2024.”A call for a sociology of adaptation” Sociological Forum. http://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12998
Sen, Raka. 2023. “Salt in the Wound: Embodied Everyday Adaptations to Salinity Intrusion in the Sundarbans.” Ecology and Society 28(2). doi: 10.5751/ES-14037-280210.
Castro, Brianna, and Raka Sen. 2022. “Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing Climate Change Adaptation in Daily Life.” Global Environmental Change 75:102555. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102555.
Cohen, Daniel Aldana, J. Mijin Cha, Nick Graetz, Aaryaman Singhal, and Raka Sen. 2022. “Securing Climate Justice Federally: A Political Economy Approach to Targeted Investments.” Environmental Justice env.2022.0047. doi: 10.1089/env.2022.0047.
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| JHR 599 | Thesis |
| JHR 592 | Research |
| JHR 494 | Special Topics |
| JHR 494 | Special Topics |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JHR 592 | Research |
| SOC 101 | Introductory Sociology |
| SOC 101 | Introductory Sociology |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JHR 494 | Special Topics |
| JHR 494 | Special Topics |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| JHR 501 | PS Social Justice&Human Rights |