First Steps: Event RSVP

Join us on Saturday, 12 August, for an evening with Pankaj Sheksaria for a talk on his book First Steps: Citizen Science and Ecology in India. The talk will be followed by an audience interaction.

The event will take place at Champaca, from 5:30 PM onwards. Please RSVP here: you can choose to RSVP for free, or purchase a signed copy of the book along with the free RSVP. 

Open to Bangalore only. 

About the book:

Based on research conducted over a year and a half, First Steps is the first account of its kind that documents, maps and analyses the rapidly growing field of Citizen Science in ecology in India. Located within the broad academic fields of ‘Science and Technology Studies’ and the ‘Sociology of Knowledge’, it is a 2nd order study that engages with the assumptions, conceptualisations, methods and the institutions that constitute Citizen Science projects in India. It presents important elements of what has happened in recent times through a study of 17 such projects and sets the stage for what might be expected in the years to come.