ADAM JADHAV

I am a social science researcher focused on political ecology and critical development in India. I am currently a PhD student in the Geography Department at the University of California at Berkeley. I spend a lot of time thinking about so-called peasant fishers, coastal spaces/places, neoliberalism and the ocean. I'm also a dive geek who is semi-militant about bike riding and tree planting.

In 2013 and 2014, I spent 13 months on a Fulbright-Nehru fellowship assigned to an Indian government institute, where I conducted research, formulated methodology and designed a very large-n household survey. Following my Fulbright fellowship, I consulted for environmental and research NGOs — mostly focused on study of rural coastal and marine spaces — until beginning my PhD in August 2016.

I previously earned a master's from American University in global environmental policy and a bachelor's from the University of Illinois in journalism. I have worked as a political and international journalist in the US and abroad. I've also spent significant time teaching, volunteering, bumming, diving and globetrotting.

This blog is a journal of professional observations, bits of work, personal anecdotes, random missives, photos, slice-of-life moments, kitchen experiments, underwater encounters, and tales of travel. I posted most regularly from late 2009 to early 2012. These days it runs in fits and starts.

• Email: ajadhav@gmail.com
• Twitter: ajadhav
• U.S. voicemail/text: +1 (623) aja-dhav (+1-623-252-3428)
• Skype: AdamJadhav
• Facebook: ajadhav

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• Green | Global Poverty Project | Fixes | Grist | Treehugger | Down to Earth

• Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History by Thomas Trautmann
• From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea by Paige West
• Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by Neil Smith