Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Environment & Climate
- Policy & Planning
- Rural
- Social & Political Geography
Areas of Interest
Borderlands, structural and slow violence, negative peace and fragility, complex and contradictory planning systems, climate change, shared water and forest resources
Biography
Tasnia Khandaker Prova is an academic researcher and development practitioner from Bangladesh, with notable experience in implementing multi-stakeholder projects and exploring fragile contexts through participatory research. Tasnia is passionate about uplifting the voices of those disproportionately affected by climate adversities, poverty and systemic ‘othering’, using non-extractive, ethical and empowering methods.
As the former Climate Research Lead at the Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University, she led an exploration of the intersection of climate change, security and peace as it manifests in the south-west borderlands of Bangladesh. In the absence of military warfare, her research hoped to dissect multi-pronged violence as a threat to sustained peace in contested and climate-vulnerable regions. Her PhD project is an extension of this inquiry and attempts to discover different streams of violence instigations, organized by complex and contradictory planning systems. Tasnia’s research interests also include human mobility and displacement, complex conflict and responsive planning, multispecies geographies and post-humanist ecocentrism.
She is a 2025 William P Fuller Peace Fellow and a Commonwealth Shared Scholar with an MSc in International Development Practice from the University of St Andrews, UK.
Publications
Journal article:
Hoque et al. 2023. Community-Based Research in Fragile Contexts: Reflections from Rohingya Refugee Camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Journal of Migration and Human Security. 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/23315024231160153
Book chapter:
Prova, T. K. (2025). The Trapped Elephant in the Humanitarian’s Room: Ensuring Ecological Justice Amidst a Refugee Crisis. In Environmentalism after Humanism. California: Palgrave Macmillan.
Research reports:
Prova, T. K., Robbani, E. & Kabir, H. (2025). “We no longer know of the peace we once had”:
Fragilities and dispossession in the climate-affected borderlands of south-west Bangladesh. XCEPT Local Researcher Network. Available at: https://www.xcept-research.org/publication/we-no-longer-know-of-the-peac...
Manzur, S & Prova, T. K. (2023). Governing at the Margins. XCEPT Local Researcher Network. Available at: https://asiafoundation.org/publication/governing-at-the-margins-a-patchw...
Creative outputs:
Prova, T. K., & Farbin, T. (2024). Shackled in Motion: Following the harm chain of climate migration. CACN. Available at: https://cpj.bracu.ac.bd/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Read-the-Photobook-Sh...
Supervisors
Nidhi Subramanyam, Katharine Rankin
Cohort
2025-2029