Dr. Matthew Barlow is an environmental anthropologist who specializes on water, waste, and plural knowledge forms in South Asian environments. His current book project is, Backwater Urbanism: Reimagining Waste in a Saturated City. Learn more.

Dr. Anwesha Borthakur is trained in environmental science and science policy. Her past work has addressed circuits of e-waste and textile waste across India; current research explores changing lifeways in conditions of climate change in the western Himalaya. Learn more.