It is a great pleasure to introduce the Third Cohort of the JPS – CASAS – CODH – YARA – PLAAS Annual Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism. After a challenging selection process, the organisers invited 67 participants, 35 women, 32 men, from 24 countries in the South, mostly PhD researchers and postdocs,…
Author: Aayushi Malhotra
Aayushi Malhotra is a PhD student in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at BITS, PILANI, Rajasthan in India. She is working on the socio-ecological transitions in pastoral systems in Himachal Pradesh, India, using an ethnographic approach. As a part of her research project, she is mapping the interdependent domains of livelihoods, resource usage and governance as well as the emerging identity of actors from the shifting development discourses. Aayushi is a first-generation doctoral candidate and aspires to be an applied social anthropologist to contribute towards the betterment of society by using holistic and relativistic development approaches.