0009-0001-8920-2009 About
Raktima Ghosh has completed her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Grounded broadly in critical human geography, her interdisciplinary research spans across social and political ecology, gender, labour and development, feminist political economy, environmental governance and climate change. Her doctoral research focuses on the relational dimension of dried fish ‘social economy’, while foregrounding fishworkers’ struggles for agency and rights in the Indian Sundarbans. She has contributed to several global partnership and transnational research projects. Alongside academic writing, she works at the interface of communities, activists and government officials with the aim of tracing fault lines and building an inclusive platform for exchange about forms of interventions.
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Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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Publications (21)
- Beyond the blinkered gaze: a review of political and gendered perspectives to approach a ‘social economy’ in dried fish production Save
- Gender, Labor, and Everyday Life in Dried Fish Production: Treading Three “Paths” in the Indian Sundarbans Save
- Your land, my land Save
- Shoreline of “small things”: contextualizing a cultural dimension of dried fish in the Indian Sundarbans Save
- Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy, and Global Perspectives Save
- Quilting the ‘Brown Hole’ in Environmental History: Muddy Materialities of Bengal Save
- Dried Fish Matters Exploring the Social Economy of Dried Fish Save
- Reifying “river”: Unpacking pluriversal possibilities in rejuvenation surrounding the Adi Ganga of Kolkata Save
- Analyzing scenarios and designing initiatives toward just transitions: coproducing knowledge with(in) the dried fish sector in the Indian Sundarbans Save
- From vulnerability to viability: A situational analysis of small-scale fisheries in Asia and Africa Save