Dr. Nimmi Kurian

Nimmi Kurian is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Her research interests include Asian borderlands, transboundary political ecology and critical approaches to international relations. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Review of International Studies (RIS), the flagship journal of the British International Studies Association and the External Advisory Board of the India China Institute, The New School, New York. Nimmi has written extensively on regional spatial imaginaries, a theme that is explored in detail in her two books India China Borderlands: Conversations Beyond the Centre (Sage, 2014) and India and China: Rethinking Borders and Security (co-author) (University of Michigan Press, 2016). Her recent publications include “Making Space for the Everyday: Discursive Geographies of Agency in the South Asian Borderlands”, in The Oxford Handbook on South Asian Borders (2025, forthcoming); ‘Why the Caged Bird Sings’: Resource Capture and Resistance in the China-Myanmar Borderlands’ in Developmentalism Subjectivity and Alternatives (Routledge, 2023); “Flows and Flaws: Questioning River Hierarchies of the Brahmaputra”, in India’s Water Federalism: New Perspectives for Public Policy, (Hans Seidel Foundation, 2022); “When Practice Meets Policy: How Border Regions are Localising India’s Neighbourhood Policy”, Global Policy (Durham University, May 2022).