Navneet is a scholar of historical epistemology and S&T history, and a nonfiction writer. Her intellectual inquiries concern questions of epistemological and phenomenological violence, the nonhuman actor as a historical agent, ontological and preconstructive knowledge systems, subjectivities in S&T, geographies of concentrated accumulation and extraction, global and local asymmetries, and the logic of capital. Her research historicizes the metaphysics of violence within the transnational political economy of S&T.
Taking a bottom-up, multimodal, and decolonial approach, her work juxtaposes philosophies that conceptualized perceptions of science and technology across nonwestern regions.
Her current project comprises a comparative analysis on the historicities of violence’s global political economies, bridging three historiographical domains - techno-biopolitics, political economy under empire, and the geopolitical history of the Punjab.
As a nonfiction writer, she contextualizes contemporary geopolitics of S&T within history, and conceptualizes ideas about violence, the human and nonhuman, the immeasurable, and the abstract.
Navneet is also a chemical engineer in the climate technology startup industry, where she has advanced industry-first developments in renewable materials, AI-generated catalysis generation, process automation, carbon-negative manufacturing, and circular supply chains. She holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from UC Davis.
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