Kavita Reddy

Kavita Reddy is a political theorist working at the intersection of Indigenous legal orders, settler colonialism, injunctions, and the jurisprudence of harm. Her research examines how legal institutions perceive, organize, and authorize competing claims of injury, especially in conflicts over land, jurisdiction, and Indigenous legal authority. Her dissertation shows how injunctions do more than resolve disputes: they help produce a hierarchy of harm in which economic disruption often appears immediate and actionable, while harms to Indigenous legal and political orders are treated as indirect, uncertain, or difficult to recognize.