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PURABI BOSE




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Forests & Indigenous Peoples

 CURIOUS MIND // CREATIVE SOUL 

Author. Communicator. Researcher. 
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My story is about working on forest and nature conservation, climate, energy, and food sovereignty. I ventured into this work with a background in food science, textile chemistry, human development, and anthropology followed by training in environment education, and then in local-level forest governance. 
​Using anthropology, political ecology and ethnographic approach, I examine the complexity in local-level governance to explore meaningful solutions for  rural communities, pastoralists, forest-dwellers. indigenous peoples including focus on women and diversity. My field work has been in my home country, India, and internationally in Brazilian Amazon, Indonesia, Nepal, Uganda, Colombia, Bolivia, and Mexico. My mode of communicating the results is  using multi-media such as photo and story books, articles, write-shops, academic lectures, edited volumes, conference talks, news articles, blogs, and documentary films so as to make science simple and accessible for multi-stakeholder audience.   

I hold an interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree from Wageningen University and a Masters degree from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Currently I spend time in editing a film, and in writing a manuscript on forest and conservation in India's indigenous territories with a comparative studies from Uganda and Latin America. 
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 'TARA' ​film takes you to  indigenous communities that are mostly forgotten by media, policy makers, and by us..  Big up to Purabi for giving a voice to the people in India who rarely have access to tell their side of the story. ​

~RYAN JESSERUN, Noticias.nl

'Landscaping Actually: Forests to Farms through a Gender Lens' is an open access photo and story E-book.
It's a  brilliant initiative by Dr. Bose to engage global citizens for sharing their perception about gender through photos and stories .  Selected compilations represents brilliant art work and storytelling.

~ ALICIA BORGAN, Visual Anthropologist

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