Aarthi is a founder trustee at Dakshin. She holds a doctoral degree in human geography from the University of Amsterdam. In her functional capacity, she heads Dakshin’s Communities and Resource Governance Programme and supports our SeaChange efforts and leads the Communications Team. Trained in the social sciences, her academic interests centre on historical and contemporary socio-legal studies, Science and Technology Studies, and sociological approaches to knowledge and expertise. Her empirical focal areas are coastal and marine environments, resource politics, maritime infrastructures and practices of environmental norms and justice. She enjoys collaborative projects and has worked with diverse disciplinary teams to write essays, make documentary films, educational websites, field manuals and other learning material on the subject of marine environments and people.

Ph.D, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

E-mail: aarthi77@gmail.com

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