Farhana Sultana

• 2024 Fall
  • ESP 410 Environment, Sustainability and Policy Capstone Seminar
  • GEO 422/622 Water: Environment, Society and Politics
• 2024 Spring
  • GEO 336 Climate Justice
  • GEO 499 Honors Capstone Project
  • GEO 602 Research Design in Geography
• 2023 Fall
  • ANT/GEO/WGS 367 Gender in a Globalizing World
  • GEO 755 Seminar in Political Ecology
• 2023 Spring
  • GEO 336 Climate Justice
  • GEO 602 Research Design in Geography
• 2022 Spring
  • GEO 336 Climate Justice
  • GEO 602 Research Design in Geography

Farhana Sultana is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar of political ecology, water governance, climate justice, development, sustainability, citizenship, human rights, transnational feminism and decolonization. Learn more: www.farhanasultana.com

"International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)", Sponsored by Independent University Bangladesh.

"Visiting Fellow", Sponsored by School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester.

"MacArthur Collaborative Fellowship", Sponsored by International Water Management Institute (IWMI).

"MacArthur Graduate Scholars Fellowship", Sponsored by University of Minnesota.

"Graduate School Fellowship", Sponsored by University of Minnesota.

"Democratizing Water", Sponsored by The Claire Friedlander Family Foundation, USA .

"Race, Space and the Environment", Sponsored by Hendricks Chapel, PARCC, Newhouse (SU); John Ben Snow Foundation, Reisman Foundation, USA .

"Building a Community of Practice for Household Water Insecurity (HWISE) Research Coordination Network ", Sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF), USA .

• Books
  • Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water. Sultana, F., Loftus, A. (eds.) Routledge, 2020.
  • Eating, Drinking: Surviving International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) Series. Jackson, P., Spiess, W. and Sultana, F. (eds.) , 2016.
  • "The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles." Sultana, F., Loftus, A. (eds.) Earthscan Water Text Series, 2012.
• Journal Articles
  • Lazar, M. K., Johnson, A., Sultana, F., Rice, J., Osborne, T., Himley, M., Havice, E. and Bebbington, A., "Critical Environmental Governance: Relational Praxis with the Material World." Journal of Political Ecology, 2023.
  • Mikulewicz, M., Crawford, N., Caretta, M. A. and Sultana, F., "Intersectionality & Climate Justice: A Call for Synergy in Scholarship and Practice." Environmental Politics, 2023.
  • Jones, R., Kocher, A., Sultana, F., Smiles, D., McSweeney, K. and Molnar, P., "Interventions on public geographies." Political Geography, 2023.
  • Sultana, F., "Progress Report in Political Ecology III: Praxis – Doing, Undoing, and Being in Political Ecology Research." Progress in Human Geography, 2023.
  • Sultana, F., "Whose Growth In Whose Planetary Boundaries? Decolonizing Planetary Justice In The Anthropocene." GEO: Geography and Environment, 2023.
  • Sultana, F., "The Unbearable Heaviness of Climate Coloniality." Political Geography, 2022.
  • Sultana, F., "Climate Change, COVID-19 and the Co-production of Injustices: A Feminist Reading of Overlapping Crises." Social and Cultural Geography, 2021.
  • Johnson, A., Zalik, A., Mollett, S., Sultana, F., Havice, E., Osborne, T., Osborne, T., Valdivia, G., Lu, F. and Billo, E., "Extraction, Entanglements, and (Im)materialities: Reflections on the Methods and Methodologies of Natural Resource Industries Fieldwork." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2021.
  • Sultana, F., "Progress Report in Political Ecology II: Conjunctures, Crises and Critical Publics." Progress in Human Geography, 2021.
  • Sultana, F., "Critical Climate Justice." The Geographical Journal, 2021.
  • Sultana, F., "Embodied Intersectionalities of Urban Citizenship: Water, Infrastructure, and Gender in the Global South." Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020.
  • Sultana, F., Myhre, S., Hill, T. and Shukla, P., "Bingo Cards for Racist Bullsh*t in Academia and STEM: A Reflection on Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism." Antipode Conjunctural Insurrections, 2020.
  • Murrey, A., Puttick, S. and Sultana, F., "Digitising Critical Pedagogies in Higher Education During COVID- 19." Corona Times, 2020.
  • Sultana, F., "Decolonizing Development Education and the Pursuit of Social Justice." Human Geography, 2019.
• Book Chapters
  • Sultana, F., "Decolonizing Climate Coloniality." In Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, Eds. Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua. Solnit , R., Lutunatabua, T. Y. (eds.) Haymarket Books, 2023.
  • Sultana, F., "Gendering the Human Right to Water in the Context of Sustainable Development." In Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics. Sowers, J., VanDeveer, S. D. and Weinthal, E. (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2023.
  • Loftus, A., Sultana, F., "¿Estamos todos juntos en esto? La covid-19 y el derecho humano al agua y al saneamiento." In Agua Pública y Coronavirus: Nuebes Negras y Nuevas Oportunidades. McDonald., D., Spronk, S. and Chavez, D. (eds.) The Transnational Institute (TNI) & Municipal Services Project (MSP), 2021.
  • Loftus, A., Sultana, F., "Are we all in this together? COVID-19 and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation." In Public Water and COVID-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings. McDonald., D., Spronk, S. and Chavez, D. (eds.) The Transnational Institute (TNI) & Municipal Services Project (MSP), 2020.
  • Sultana, F., Loftus, A., "The Right to Water in a Global Context: Challenges and Transformations in Water Politics." In Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water. Sultana, F., Loftus, A. (eds.) Routledge, 2020.
  • Sultana, F., "Gender and Water in a Changing Climate: Challenges and Prospects." In Water Security Across the Gender Divide. Fröhlich, C., Gioli, G., Cremades, R. and Myrttinen, H. (eds.) Springer, 2018.
  • Sultana, F., Mohanty, C. T. and Miraglia, S., "Igualdad de género, ciudadanía y agua pública en Bangladesh." In Recursos, Vinculos Y Territorios Inflexiones Transversales En Torno Al Agua. Villamizar, C. S., Pizarro, F. A. (eds.) UNR Editora, 2017.
• Book Reviews
  • Górna , A., In Eating, Drinking: Surviving. The International Year of Global Understanding – IYGU. Sultana, F. (ed.) Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2017.
  • Prieto, M., In The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles. Sultana, F. (ed.) Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography , 2015.
  • Sultana, F., Bakker, K., "Governance Failures in Neoliberal Times." In Privatizing Water. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , 2015.
  • Seguido, A., In The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles. Sultana, F. (ed.) Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica, 2014.
  • Padfield, R., In The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles. Sultana, F. (ed.) Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 2014.
  • Agnew, J., In The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles. Sultana, F. (ed.) Antipode , 2013.
  • Godden, L., In The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles. Sultana, F. (ed.) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 2013.
• Conference Proceedings
  • Sultana, F., "The Human Right to Water, Gender Justice, and Sustainable Development: Exploring Connections and Possibilities." In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Human Right to Water at Vatican, Cátedra del Diálogo y la Cultura del Encuentro. , 2017.
  • Crow, B., Sultana, F., "Water Concerns in Rural Bangladesh: A Gendered Perspective." In Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Challenges of the Millennium, Proceedings of the 26th WEDC International Conference, Loughborough University. Pickford, . (ed.) , 2001.
  • Sultana, F., Crow, B., "Water Resources and Gender: Unspoken Realities and Unfolding Crisis in Bangladesh." In Bangladesh Environment 2000, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bangladesh Environment. Ahmed, M. F. (ed.) BAPA, 2000.
• Dissertations
  • Sultana, F., Suffering for Water, Suffering from Water: Political Ecologies of Arsenic, Water and Development in Bangladesh. , 2007.
  • Sultana, F., In the Path of Nature’s Fury: Natural Hazards and Disaster Management in Bangladesh - A Case Study of Tropical Cyclones and Storm Surge Disasters. , 1998.
  • Sultana, F., Shrimp and Sustainability: Social and Ecological Impacts of the Shrimp Aquaculture Industry in Bangladesh. , 1998.
  • Sultana, F., Coastal Protection Plans for Chittagong, Bangladesh: Reducing Storm Surge Death and Destruction. , 1996.
  • Sultana, F., Impact of Climate Change on Floods in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin. , 1995.
  • Sultana, F., Sea Level Rise, Tropical Cyclones and Storm Surges in the Bay of Bengal. , 1994.
• Encyclopedia Entries
  • Sultana, F., "Arsenic." Robbins, P. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, 2007.
  • Sultana, F., "Bangladesh." Robbins, P. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, 2007.
  • Sultana, F., "Monsoon." Robbins, P. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, 2007.
  • Sultana, F., "Water Quality." Robbins, P. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, 2007.
• Note, Journal
  • Sultana, F., "Resplendent care-full climate revolutions." Political Geography, 2022.
• Technical Reports
  • Sultana, F., "How to Reduce Environmental Vulnerabilities in the Globalizing World." HENVI Policy Brief 4, 2016.
  • Sultana, F., Conducting Gender Study in Coastal Polders of Bangladesh. International Water Management Institute, 2012.
  • Graefe, O., Sultana, F., "Drinking Water." In United Nations International Year of Global Understanding. , 2011.
  • Sultana, F., The Right to Water. , 2010.
  • Sultana, F., "Social Dynamics of Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water: Issues for Policymakers." Tropical Agriculture Association Newsletter, 2007.
  • Sultana, F., Howard, G., "Gender Concerns in Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: Trends and Challenges." In Selected Papers on the Social Aspects of Arsenic and Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh. Arsenic Policy Support Unit (APSU), 2006.
  • Bhattarai, M., Sultana, F., Irrigation Impacts Assessment: An Annotated Bibliography of Published Literature on Methods and Findings. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), 2004.

Workshop of the Department of Geography and the Environment, Maxwell School, "Geographers Confront the Climate Crisis: Science, Policy, and Power" (November 30, 2023)

Social movements in the climate crisis: an encounter of perspectives, University of Insubria, Italy, "Cultivating care-full Climate Revolutions" (November 29, 2023)

University of Illinois, USA, "From Climate Coloniality to Climate Revolutions" (November 8, 2023)

Symposium on New Directions in Bangladesh Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison, "Contested Urban Hydro Citizenship in Dhaka" (October 18, 2023)

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, "Sustainability, Decoloniality, Interdisciplinarity" (October 10, 2023 - October 12, 2023)

Annual Conference of the Collaborative Research Centre Structural Change of Property, University of Erfurt, Germany, "Rethinking property relations in climate coloniality" (October 4, 2023 - October 6, 2023)

Political Education Teach-in Series, South Feminist Futures, "What is Climate Coloniality?" (October 4, 2023)

Pathways Forum, Future Earth, France, "Whose Sustainability? Unpacking decolonization in sustainability science" (September 27, 2023)

Conversations in Conflict Studies, PARCC, Maxwell School, "From Climate Coloniality to Climate Revolutions" (September 14, 2023)

Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series, Cornell University, Global Development Program, USA, "From Climate Coloniality to Climate Revolutions" (September 13, 2023)

Environmental Politics from the Margins: Co-creating Multispecies-Just Futures, Political Studies Association, UK, "Climate Coloniality" (September 1, 2023)

Resilience in the Anthropocene Summit, Loka Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, "The Pain We Carry; How Race, Gender, Class and Globalization intersect on Ecoanxiety and Climate Distress" (August 8, 2023 - August 10, 2023)

Expert Group Meeting: Progress of the World’s Women: Conceptualizing Feminist Climate Justice, United Nations Woman, UN Women, USA, "Conceptualizing Feminist Climate Justice" (July 11, 2023 - June 12, 2023)

Sydney Environmental Institute, University of Sydney, "Grounded Conversations" (May 30, 2023)

Beyond Growth 2023 Conference: Pathways towards Sustainable Prosperity in the EU, European Parliament, "Understanding the biophysical limits to growth to build an economy that respects planetary boundaries" (May 16, 2023)

International Conference of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG), Humboldt Universität, Germany, "Feminists Decolonizing Climate Politics" (May 4, 2023)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Confronting Climate Coloniality" (March 23, 2023 - March 27, 2023)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Doing Public Geography" (March 23, 2023 - March 27, 2023)

Climate Action Task Force Plenary Lecture, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Just Geographies of Academic Mobilities" (March 23, 2023 - March 27, 2023)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility " (March 23, 2023 - March 27, 2023)

Science & Technology in Asia seminar series, Harvard University, USA, "Confronting Climate Coloniality" (March 14, 2023)

Book Seminar, Ashoka University, India, "Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam" (February 10, 2023)

19th Conference on Cultural Geographies/ Neue Kulturgeographie (NKG), Martin Luther University, Germany, "Decolonizing Climate Coloniality and the Importance of Cultural Praxis" (January 26, 2023)

Institute for Research on Women (IRW) Distinguished Lecture Series, Rutgers University, "The Future of the Environment" (November 11, 2021)

Environmental Studies Seminar Series, Colby College, "Climate Justice in a World of Crises" (October 29, 2021)

Radical Climate Justice for the Global Commons, University of California Center for Climate Justice, "Feminist climate justice in a world of crises" (October 4, 2021 - October 25, 2021)

49th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, "Fifty Years in the Making: Decolonizing Bangladesh Studies" (October 20, 2021 - October 24, 2021)

49th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, "Fifty Years in the Making: Decolonizing Bangladesh Studies" (October 20, 2021 - October 24, 2021)

Annual Presidential Sustainability Lecture, SUNY Geneseo, "Sustainability in a Time of Climate Crisis" (October 6, 2021)

College and University Fund for the Social Sciences Conference, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), "Reckoning with Research Methods and Ethics" (October 4, 2021)

Climate Change, Justice, and Health Series, Loyola Marymount University, "Feminist climate justice in a world of crises" (September 23, 2021)

Annual Environmental Security Summit, National Intelligence University (NIU) and Environmental Security Working Group (ESWG), "Critical Climate Justice" (September 15, 2021)

Climate Change Research Group (CCRG) Annual General Meeting, Royal Geographical Society, "Climate Change in Geographical Research" (September 6, 2021)

HWISE NOW Virtual Coffee Hour, NSF, "Household Water Insecurity and Climate Disruptions" (July 27, 2021)

Speaker Series of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Board, "Critical Climate Justice" (July 14, 2021)

IV Tarragona International Environmental Law Colloquium, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, "Climate Change, COVID-19 and the Co-production of Injustices" (June 15, 2021)

Consultation on Equity and Inclusion in the Context of Climate Change & Migration, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, US State Department, "Equity and Inclusion in Climate Change & Migration" (June 2, 2021)

CLARE Programme Stakeholder Workshop, KIT Royal Tropical Institute (Netherlands) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC), "Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Integration in Research on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience" (May 19, 2021)

Virtual Symposium, Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies with Syracuse University Newhouse School of Journalism, "Race, Space and the Environment" (April 23, 2021)

Center for Environmental Justice & Colorado Water Center, "Whose Water is it? Environmental Justice and Water Privatization" (April 19, 2021)

Induction Ceremony of the Gamma Theta Upsilon Geographical Honor Society, Hofstra University, "Why Geography Matters" (April 12, 2021)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "More than Mentoring: Towards A More Equitable and Just Geography" (April 4, 2021 - April 7, 2021)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Urban Climate Justice Futures" (April 4, 2021 - April 7, 2021)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Water Politics" (April 4, 2021 - April 7, 2021)

UNEP Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP), Global Environment Facility (GEF), "How the Science of Behavioral Change and the Social Sciences Can Help the GEF to Deliver its Objectives" (March 25, 2021 - March 26, 2021)

UNEP Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP), Global Environment Facility (GEF), "GEF-8 Replenishment: Behavioral Change" (February 8, 2021)

Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, University of Amsterdam, "Decolonising Europe in International Politics" (December 2, 2020)

Yale School of the Environment Community Conversations, Yale University, "Ethics and Politics of International Field Research" (December 2, 2020)

New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, "Climate Change, COVID-19 and the Co-production of Injustices: A Feminist Reading of Overlapping Crises" (November 26, 2020)

World Summit AI, Inspired Minds, "Ten Years to 2030 - What is The Global Starting Point for the Climate Countdown?" (November 24, 2020)

Transregional Planning Grants Development Workshop Series, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), "Ethics and Praxis of Collaboration in Environmental Research And Beyond" (November 16, 2020)

paper presented at ‘Urban Climate Change Planning in Asian Cities: Lessons from the Field’, Annual Meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), "Drowned out: Climate injustices in Dhaka, Bangladesh" (November 8, 2020)

Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG), Geography Department, "Networking as feminist scholars" (November 3, 2020)

Fourth Annual Distinguished Hopke Lecture, Institute for Sustainable Environment, Clarkson University, "Global Water Crises and How We Can Envision Just & Sustainable Futures" (October 28, 2020)

Center for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University, "Intersectionality and Climate justice: Towards an Emancipatory Climate Research Agenda" (September 30, 2020)

Decolonizing Political Ecology Workshop, POLLEN Conference, "Is Your Political Ecology ‘Decolonial’?" (September 21, 2020)

Planning Workshop of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), "Addressing the Climate Crisis" (June 25, 2020)

Climate Change and Urban Violence Global Engagement Network (CCUVN), Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi Urban Lab, "Climate Change, Cities and Violence in the Time of Covid- 19: Perspectives from South Asia" (June 24, 2020)

School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, "Digitising Anti-Racist & Anti-Imperialist Teaching Amidst COVID-19" (April 20, 2020)

Environmental Humanities Lecture, Princeton University (April 12, 2020)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Climate Justice and Intersectionality: Exploring New Directions in Geographical Climate Justice Research" (April 6, 2020 - April 10, 2020)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Towards New Feminist Political Ecologies of Urban Infrastructure & Urban Environments" (April 6, 2020 - April 10, 2020)

"Urban Climate Justice Futures" (April 6, 2020 - April 10, 2020)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water" (April 6, 2020 - April 10, 2020)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Water Politics" (April 4, 2020 - April 8, 2020)

Princeton Environmental Forum, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, "Drought and Deluge: How Shifts in the Water Cycle Are Impacting the Environment and Society" (October 24, 2019 - October 25, 2019)

Nature-Society Geography Workshop, Geography Department, Syracuse University, "Whose Climate Justice?" (October 11, 2019)

Humanities Center Public Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon University, "Human Right to Water and Water Justice" (September 25, 2019)

Water in Our Future Exploratory Meeting, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS) (June 19, 2020 - June 20, 2019)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Gender, Development, and Technology: Feminist and Postcolonial Perspectives" (April 3, 2020 - April 7, 2019)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Interdisciplinary Mentorship in Communities of Practice: Experiences, Best Practices, and Challenges" (April 3, 2020 - April 7, 2019)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Advancing Critical Climate Change Studies: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender" (April 3, 2019 - April 7, 2019)

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Mediating (Im)Materialities in Nature-Society Research" (April 3, 2019 - April 7, 2019)

Inaugural Lecture for Critical Hope: Acting in a Challenging World, Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto, "Decolonizing Development and the Pursuit of Social Justice" (March 14, 2019)

Elevate the Discipline Fellow, American Association of Geographers (2023)

Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2023)

Glenda Laws Award, American Association of Geographers (2019)

Co-Curricular Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University (2018)

Geneva Actions on Human Water Security (2017)