When the Ground Refuses to Settle: Living with Unfinished Landscapes in the Western GhatsÂ
On the national highway that cuts across the lower slopes of the Western Ghats, the surface itself is rarely the
Mohammed Labeeb
Mohammed Labeeb works at the edge where history, terrain, and method slip out of alignment. Trained in environmental humanities, his research follows floods, landslides, rain, and infrastructure in the Western Ghats to ask how climatic processes become historical forces in the Anthropocene South. He is interested in moments when archives thin out, landscapes move, and qualitative method has to move with them. Across his work, he experiments with posthuman approaches to qualitative inquiry, treating bodies, routes, and material instability as part of how knowledge is made rather than merely observed.