Aarthi Sridhar is one of the founder trustees of Dakshin Foundation and pursuing a PhD from the University of Amsterdam on a historical sociology of fisheries science in India. Her academic interests centre on historical and contemporary socio-legal studies, Science and Technology Studies, and sociological approaches to knowledge and expertise. Her empirical focal areas are coastal and marine environments, resource politics, maritime infrastructures and practices of environmental norms and justice. She executes these through the Communities and Resource Governance Programme at Dakshin where she’s a Programme Head. She enjoys collaborative projects and has worked with diverse disciplinary teams on writing projects, documentary films, technical websites, field manuals and other learning material on the subject of marine environments and people.