Seeing Animals Like a State

This research examines how India's wildlife bureaucracy constructs and manages "problem animals" through the lens of human subjectivity.

I led the Q-methodology analysis to study perspectives among forestry officials in South India, revealing how bureaucratic legibility requirements transform complex human-animal relations into standardized categories.

The research was published in Geoforum and contributes to ongoing debates in political ecology about conservation governance and human-wildlife conflict.