CONTRIBUTORS
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The ‘Sea Lexicon’ is a collaborative endeavour that aims at the co-creation of a lexicon based on words related to the sea. It is an invitation for a transregional thinking through the perspective of the sea. We focus on words that animate the lives of coastal communities in various languages across the Indian Ocean.
Aarti Sridhar
Aarthi Sridhar is a founder trustee of Dakshin Foundation and heads its Communities and Resource Governance Programme. Her research interests cover a range of historical and contemporary socio-legal studies, with a focus on regulating resource use, environmental justice and democratic practices. She is one of the co-PIs of the core team.
Aravind P.K.
Aravind is a research scholar at Mahindra University. His work delves into the nuances of Indian Ocean society and trade, with a particular emphasis on the captivating history of the Mangalore region. His contributions centre around the Beary language.
Sayan Dey
Dr. Sayan Dey is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Arts, Alliance University, Bangalore. His areas of research interest are postcolonial studies, decolonial studies, creole studies, critical diversity studies, critical food studies, and many more.
Dr. Annu Jalais
Annu Jalais is an environmental anthropologist. She works as an Associate Professor at School of Interwoven Arts and Science, KREA University. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching experience focuses on: the human-nonhuman interface; environment and climate change; religious identity and migration; caste and social justice. Her primary region of specialisation is South Asia, specifically Bangladesh and India, and her secondary zone of interest encompasses Southeast Asia and China, especially around Indian Ocean exchanges in the religious and cultural realms.
Raseela P A
Raseela P A is a former teacher and an independent researcher from the Androth island of Lakshadweep. She holds a triple major bachelor’s degree from Regional Institute of Education, Mysore. She has completed her Master’s in English Literature from JNU, New Delhi.
Sindhu Nepolean
Sindhu Nepolean is an independent researcher and a freelance journalist based out of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She is associating with research projects carried out by institutions like the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, etc. She is the recipient of a few reporting fellowships and actively covers issues around the environment, gender, education, and coastal communities.
Prerana Gawde
Prerana Gawde is a marine science researcher with an interest in research aimed at sustainable marine resource management and enhancing the resilience of marine ecosystems. She works on pole and line tuna fisheries of Lakshadweep, employing baitfish species as a focal point for developing integrated ecological fish surveys and inclusive resource management approaches.
Mahaboob Khan
Mahaboob Khan is a graduate and practitioner of Social Work who hails from the Kadmat island of Lakshadweep. He has been working with the fisher community of Lakshadweep for the promotion of sustainable fisheries for nature conservation and the protection of people’s livelihoods for more than seven years.
Muhammed Luqman
Muhammed Luqman O P is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Society and Culture programme at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. With training in Anthropology and Political Science, he is interested in marginality, religion, coastal communities and political ecology. He now seeks to explore sustainable fishing, indigenous knowledge, culture, and community dynamics within the Lakshadweep islands. He is a contributor for Malayalam and Jeseri words.
Lakshmi Pradeep
Lakshmi Pradeep is a Graduate Student at South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore with training in Anthropology. Her research interests include anthropology of corals and coastal communities, island studies and science studies. Her research focus is on human and non-human relations in the Arabian Sea. She leads the Sea Lexicon project of the Southern Collective.
Contribute to the lexicon
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The Sea Lexicon project is an ongoing attempt to document the words from the indian ocean region. You can help build the database of words and expand the lexicon