Raktima Ghosh (Former member)

Raktima Ghosh (Former member)

by | 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

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Aishik Banerjee (Former member)

Aishik Banerjee (Former member)

by | 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.

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