Dr. Venkat is an award-winning research scholar and former journalist from India. Her doctoral thesis on India's right to information movement won the Sutasoma Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute, UK. She is currently working on her postdoctoral research publications. She is also a Research Fellow at the ERC-funded Global Research Network on Parliaments and People.
Research Interests
political anthropology; anthropology of development, anthropology of state and bureaucracy; environment and climate change; politics of information/data
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