MANJUSHREE PANDA

Manjushree Panda is a Research Intern at Institute of Chinese Studies. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from Gangadhar Meher College (Autonomous) and a Master’s in Sociology from Sambalpur University, Odisha. After which she successfully completed the much-acclaimed Research Training Programme (RTP) from Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (CSSSC) Kolkata. She also acquires a Master of Science degree in Disaster Mitigation from Sikkim Manipal University through correspondence. Her current research interest delves into taking an ethnographic and phenomenological account of everyday realities associated with indigenous Risk Society residing on contested India-China frontiers attributed by dual precarity of fragile ecosystem and self-manufactured risk of hyper-militarization. Her research interests skew towards examining how borderland conflict for capitalist expansion reshapes the social behaviour, order and practices of a community thereby foster them to take on collective movement for a change. She is also interested in learning Chinese Ink brush painting and other languages of South East Asia