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104. Fish Have No Borders (with Siddharth Chakravarty & Vani Sreekanta)
Humans, unfortunately do
Speakers
Researcher Siddharth Chakravarty and anthropologist & researcher Vani Sreekanta exchange notes on their most recent visit to West Bengal post the lifting of the lockdown. They talk about complexities of food habits, food production, policies that govern the ecologically sensitive areas of the Mangroves, coastal mechanisation, gender politics and the politics of migrating fishing workers and labour.
This wide ranging conversation mulls over the role of the researcher and the engagement, intervention and impact on their subjects.
Speakers
Siddharth Chakravarty
Vani Sreekanta
Vani Sreekanta is an independent researcher interested in the complex enmeshment of human and more-than human systems. She also likes to think about the roles networks and collaborations play in building more representative, participatory research. She has worked in environmental conservation for nearly a decade and is currently involved with a transdisciplinary collaboratory called the Southern Collective. She was recently adopted by a dog and she’s probably thinking about him right now. She tweets @vanisreekanta and you can find the Southern Collective @
