Chetna Khandelwal is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary. She is a qualitative researcher interested in critical climate justice, Southern theory, migration, critical phenomenology, and feminist place-making. Her doctoral work sits at the intersection of environmental/climate justice advocacy and migration, expanding across India, Canada, and the USA. In her research, Chetna is attentive towards: practices of care that emerge in activist/advocacy spaces; carework structuring capacities for climate advocacy; and Southern Feminist care aesthetics visible in immigrant and South Asian environmental ethics. She joined the CWNW Steering Committee in 2025, and is currently serving on the Communications committee.

Selected Publications:

Banerjee, Pallavi, Chetna Khandelwal, and Megha Sanyal. 2024. “Deep care: The COVID‐19 pandemic and the work of marginal feminist organizing in India.” Gender, Work & Organization 31(4): 1479-1504.

Keynote co-speaker. Climate Conversations: Caring for the More Than Human World in Regimes of Forced Migration. 2025 Calgary Climate Symposium.

Lognon, Riann, Chetna Khandelwal, Megha Sanyal, Santanu Dutta, Pallavi Banerjee, and Pratim Sengupta. “Anti-Racist Reorientations to Land Through Gardening with Newcomer Youth of Colour.” Frontiers in Climate 7: 1639059.