Acknowledging Indigenous Knowledge (ePub)

Purabi Bose, a citizen of India with Santhal tribe/Adivasi ancestry, is a social anthropologist and environmental scientist with a research focus on forest tenure and land rights of indigenous peoples, climate adaptation, and food security in Asia, East Africa, and Latin America. Currently, she is an Associate Professor (Docent) and Senior Lecturer of Forest Policy at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden.

Her professional affiliations have spanned NGOs, philanthropic, international research, academic, and think tanks with a focus on rural and tribal development, natural resource governance, and social inclusion. She is passionate about simplifying science for better communications and helps in capacity building, teaching, partnership, policy analysis, research, and publications.

Purabi holds a Ph.D. from Wageningen University and has held numerous fellowships, including those at the University of California, Berkeley, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the University of Copenhagen, and the Smithsonian Institute. She presented her research work at over 100 international conferences. She has published her research in peer-reviewed journals and in popular science media.

As a filmmaker, she is a producer and director of independent films on forests, mountains, land, and the way of living of indigenous peoples. This is done under her self-funded initiative, Landing Together. Further details about films and protagonists at www.landingtogether.weebly.com