Thamarai Selvan Kannan

About

Research officer at the Department of Social Sciences, French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP). My interdisciplinary research examines the history of science and technology, material culture, environmental humanities, and the interconnected relationships among humans, animals, plants, and technologies in South Asia.

Employment

• French Institute of Pondicherry Research Officer
  2025 - Present

Education

• IIT Madras

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (6)

• Sweet and Sound
  Unsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes 2025 DOI: 10.1093/9780197814611.003.0016
  +Save
• Smelly sounds: Intestine material, gendered labour, and infrastructures of craft in south India
  Journal of Material Culture 2025 DOI: 10.1177/13591835251317452
  +Save
• Skin and Sound: Caring for and Crafting Bovine Hide in South India
  Technology and Culture 2023 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2023.a910997
  +Save
• Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre-colonial Eastern India: Technology and Culture by Asha Shukla Choubey
  Technology and Culture 2023 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2023.0017
  +Save
• Natural History, Women’s Agency and Conserving Bio-diversity: A Report
  4S - Backchannels - Society for Social Studies of Science 2022
  +Save
• Panrutti Kattai: Crafting Taste and Sound
  Technology's Stories 2021 DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2021.03.23.03
  +Save