by emilie.cremin@gmail.com | Jul 3, 2024
Trained in the discipline of history and development studies, Shreyashi supervises the historical research segment of the ENGAGE project, overseeing the tracking, documenting, compiling and analyzing of archival records related to social risk and resilience in the Sundarban delta. Her research interests include South Asian urban waters and the role of transdisciplinarity in socio-ecological studies. Shreyashi’s doctoral thesis on the River Adi Ganga in Kolkata, India, explores the complex historical, environmental and cultural assemblages surrounding the river through the ‘ethno-graphical’ lens. She has also been part of the transboundary EqUIP project, ‘Towards A ‘Fluid’ Governance: Hydrosocial Analysis of Flood Paradigms and Management Practices in Rhone and Ganges Basins (India, France and Switzerland)’, with her supervisors Dr. Jenia Mukherjee and Dr. Anuradha Choudry, where she explored the history of flood resilience practices in the Sundarbans delta.
Expertise: Environmental History, Urban Waters, Transdisciplinary socio-ecological research
by emilie.cremin@gmail.com | Mar 13, 2024
Swarnadeep Bhattacharjee, a dedicated researcher at IIT Kharagpur, boasts a rich tapestry of experience across various organizations. Having served as a research assistant at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, Swarnadeep is well-versed in both qualitative and quantitative data analysis. With a master’s degree in sociology, his passion lies in interdisciplinary research, with a focus on environment and sustainability, political ecology, computational social sciences, innovation, and society. Additionally, Swarnadeep brings valuable expertise in project management, further enhancing his ability to drive impactful research initiatives.
by ShahJahanSiraj | Nov 6, 2023
Co-Principal Investigator for India
Anuradha, Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Outreach Coordinator at the Indian Knowledge Systems, Division of Ministry of Education, Government of India, is anchored in Sanskrit studies, Psychology, Indic philosophies, and yoga traditions. An international speaker, MOOC coordinator, and yoga practitioner, she travels the globe widely to conduct and disseminate Indic research. She also specializes in cultural heritage and community traditions for ecosystem-dependent societies inhabiting vulnerable delta ecologies such as the Chilika and the Sundarbans. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards and accolades from institutes such as the European Union of Yoga, the United Nations, and IIT Kharagpur.
In this project, Anuradha will experiment with cognitive frameworks to map transitions from community vulnerability to viability in fragile ecosystems. She will also be instrumental in expanding the outreach network alliance by identifying partners, stakeholders, and agencies from different parts of the country to infiltrate vitality and momentum into the larger agenda of ENGAGE4Sundarbans.
by ShahJahanSiraj | Nov 6, 2023
Raktima is a doctoral candidate in social ecological research at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Supported by the Dried Fish Matters (DFM) global partnership project (https://driedfishmatters.org/), her research focuses on dried fish social economy and fisheries governance in Indian Sundarbans. Her doctoral work is broadly an inquiry into how the social economy of dried fish is shaped by relations and values that emerge from complex social interactions along the value chain. She explores the ways in which dried fish value chain diverges from and converges with the mainstream principles and practices of market economy. She is particularly interested in fish value chain, environmental governance, political ecology, and human geography.
Raktima’s roles in this project include organising and facilitating workshops; documenting and designing project reports.
Lastest publication: Ghosh R, Mukherjee J, Bandyopadhyay A, Chatterjee S, Choudry A, Ghosh P, Pathak S, Sen A and Sinha P (2023) Analyzing scenarios and designing initiatives toward just transitions: coproducing knowledge with(in) the dried fish sector in the Indian Sundarbans. Front. Water 5:1043628. doi: 10.3389/frwa.2023.1043628
by ShahJahanSiraj | Nov 6, 2023
Aishik works for SOR4D as a project manager and post-PhD fellow. He has completed his PhD in Indian Musicology. His research interests span across Historical Indian Political Musicology (HIPM), Ethnomusicology, Sound Ecology and Cultural Sustainability. He explores the changing ecologies of soundscapes, studying rhythms and ruptures shaped by (non)human interactions within sonic urban palimpsests. His action research is anchored with an advocacy for an auditory sustainability addressing community resilience in South Asia. He is presently involved in global partnership projects, mainly focusing upon and executing wide spectrum of visualization techniques to depict and disseminate real-life scenarios from coastal-deltaic contexts.
His focus in this project is to explore the situated cultural practices (ritualistic and oral tradition) and pathways to cultural sustainability in Indian Sundarbans; organize and facilitate research and training workshops; capture photographs and video footage to produce a thematic/full-length film.
