Aalok Khandekar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology/Sociology at the Department of Liberal Arts and the Department of Climate Change at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Khandekar’s research focuses on understanding and developing collaborative infrastructures—the (often collaboratively built) socio-technical systems undergirding contemporary lifeworlds that allow a variety of differently situated social actors to come together to address complex issues. His recent research has focused on issues of urban environmental governance, focusing on air quality, and more recently, as part of the Cool Infrastructures project, on how vulnerable groups in the global urban south experience and manage rising temperatures. As part of this research, Khandekar also participates in the development of open data infrastructures to help build capacity for addressing complex conditions that characterize our worlds today. Khandekar is the editor-in-chief of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, the Open Access journal of the Society for Social Studies of Science.
Angela Okune, "Aalok Khandekar", contributed by , STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 27 September 2021, accessed 25 August 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/aalok-khandekar
Critical Commentary
This is Aalok Khandekar's collaboration bio, created on 26th of September, 2021. This artifact was created to share with participants in advance of the 6S pre-conference workshop. The full essay of collaboration bios can be found here.