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Selected Publications

  1. Dutta, D., Takeuchi, M. (2026) Ecologizing pedagogical artefacts through artist and teacher collaboration. Environmental Education Research, 1—18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2026.2708251  

  2. Dutta, D., & Takeuchi, M. A. (2026). Rhizomatic Explorations of Immigrant Growers’ Sense of Belonging Through More-than-Human Relationships in a Community Garden. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 47(3), 617–634. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2026.2690381

  3. Takeuchi, M. A., Czuy, K., Dutta, D., Mambo, T., & Swallow, M. (2026). Grounding Futures: Trans-disciplining learning and community-building research. Futures. 10.1016/j.futures.2026.103840

  4. Dutta, D., & Hazra, A., (2025). Nurturing socio-ecological spaces through urban gardening practices in India: An exploration of alternate imaginations. Urbanization. https://doi.org/10.1177/24557471251371533

  5. Prasad, S., Dutta, D., & Chakraborty, A. (2025). Academic Institutions as Innovation Intermediaries; Co-creating knowledge and building the Gujarat agroecology learning alliance (GALA). Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 57, 101033. 

  6. Dutta, D., Takeuchi, M., Chowdhury, A., Edworthy, S., Eves, C., Habib, S., … Wolf Leg, L. (2025). Creating learning alliances for flourishing food environmental futures. Canadian Food Studies La Revue Canadienne Des études Sur l’alimentation, 12(2), 105–121. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i2.709

  7. Dutta, D., & Chandrasekharan, S. (2025). “We never even touched plants this way”: school gardens as an embodied context for motivating environmental actions. Environmental Education Research, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2024.2385993 

  8. Date, G., Dutta, D., Chandrasekharan, S. (2021). Solving for Pattern: reshaping the building instinct, to move beyond efficiency. Environmental Values, 30(1), 65-92. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327119X1557993638265 

  9. Dutta, D., Chandrasekharan, S. (2017). Doing to Being: farming actions in a community coalesce into pro-environment motivations and values. Environmental Educational Research. 24(8), 1192-1210. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2017.1392485 

Outreach Articles 

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  1. Dutta, D. (2024). Climate change, storytelling, and the subversive power of imagination. Teacher Plus, Azim Premji University, January 2024

  2. Dutta, D. (2023). Spilling the beans. Iwonder, Azim Premji University, pp. 36-42. ISSN 2582-1636 (Dec 2022)

  3. Dutta D (2024) Enchanted minds, empowered hands: Reflections from an urban food garden. The Ecological Citizen. epub-096-1 to 8

  4. Dutta D (2023) All that breathes: An exploration of inter-species intimacy. The Ecological Citizen 6(2): 162-4

  5. Dutta, D. (2023) Nurturing the spaces for ‘wild’ ideas. Teacher Plus. April Issue

  6. Dutta, D. and Muralidhar, A. (2023) Sacred and Sacrilege: Weaving resilience and exploitation through forest assemblages. Centre for Humans and Nature

  7. Dutta, D. (2022). Sensory Trails on a Campus in Gujarat. RoundGlass Sustain.

  8. Dutta, D., & Muralidhar, A. (2021). From moong to mongoose: Exploring nature in cities. Current Conservation, 14(3), 5-8.

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