Sonakshi Srivastava

Why tiger conservation in India needs democratic participation, not displacement If hegemony depends on the consent of the governed, then India’s conservation future depends on restoring that consent — not through coercion or spectacle, but through equity, participation, and trust

Finishing a report on displacement from Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, will start working on Melghat and Bor soon. Compelled to make basic arguments again…
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Exclusive! A Revealing And Not Made-Up Interview With A Two-Headed Worm | Defector The freshwater flatworm Stenostomum brevipharyngium is, by all accounts, a simple fellow. The worm is small and entirely soft. It has no eyes, only sensory pits that control balance and orientation. T...

Defector nabbed an EXCLUSIVE, no-holds-barred interview with the two-headed worm of the moment.
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I haven’t been here in a while, so this is a bit delayed but my short story based on my MSc dissertation is out in Anthropology and Humanism, as one of the winners of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s Creative Ethnographic Prose Competition!

Thank you! So excited to be working together!

What Interdisciplinarity Feels Like in Practice - ICCS By Sonakshi Srivastava, a participant in the Interdisciplinary Conservation Network 2025.   I am not going to lie: as a social scientist, I am still a little scared of natural scientists. It is hard t...

Great blog to start the week: reflections from @sonakshis.bsky.social on the 2025 Interdisciplinary Conservation Network.

"The highlight of ICN for me was the people. Their presence reminded me of what interdisciplinarity truly looks like and what it takes to build it."

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