Isha Sharma

Isha Sharma is a Ph.D. candidate in the Centre for International Politics, Organization, and Disarmament at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Her research tries to locate the role of the state machinery in mediating the opposing tendencies of the global and the national discourses on climate change using India as a case study. It identifies the three discursive themes of ecological modernization, sustainable development, and climate security. It asks what strategies does the state adopt in response to these discourses and which themes does it prioritize and why. Besides answering these questions, her Ph.D. project also attempts to study the evolution of climate governance from an inter-state setup to a more transnational endeavor and to gather the implications of this shift on how to approach the study of international politics. She holds an M.A. degree in Politics and an MPhil in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Before joining JNU, she completed her Bachelor’s from Miranda House college at the University of Delhi, where she majored in Mathematics.