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Founded on principles of feminist climate justice, WiCAN emphasises the importance of knowledge, policy, and practice to build just and sustainable life worlds. We believe in redefining, revisiting and reconfiguring dominant modes of knowledge and data by mainstreaming marginalised knowledge systems to create meaningful change at the policy level together. Through advocacy, community engagement, and evidence-based praxis, our intention is to decolonise, politicise, and reshape narratives of resilience with democratic and participatory action.
Prof. Dr Manjula Bharathy is a faculty member of the Centre for Urban Policy and Governance at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has proved her excellence in the field of academia and research as well as explored the horizons of decentralised governance, subaltern and decolonial citizenship, and marginal subjectivities for about three decades. She was a Fulbright research scholar in gender studies at the University of Rutgers, New Jersey (2018) and was the Chief Operating Officer of the Kudumbashree Mission (2013-15). She has been the recipient of various international and national accolades for her documentary on the transgender issue, XXWhy, which premiered in Toronto, and Amchi Patta Raj Satta. Dr Bharathy is deeply passionate about discourses surrounding local governance issues and has been involved in numerous projects for uplifting women, tribals, transgender, and coastal communities.
Sajan Gopalan, former Program Head of Doordarshan, a public broadcasting unit of the Govt of India, has spent 37 years in the field of media and has carved out a remarkable position for himself. He was the producer of shows such as Noorumeniyude Koithukar, Green Kerala Express, and Ini Njangal Parayam. He strives to bring attention to subjects of environment, development, science, and literature, through his writings and visual media. He currently works with Inji Films, serving as writer and creative consultant to several documentaries, including Lost in Transit, Swami Anandatheerthan: Sanyasi And The Rebel, and Climate Resilience: Life As Told By Women.
Bindu Sajan has worked across several channels in Malayalam Television, producing many acclaimed TV shows, such as Taste of Kerala, Great India Race, and Vanitha Ratnam. In addition, she has produced scores of documentaries. From exploring the culture of the Karen community of Andaman and Nicobar islands through her award-winning documentary Lost in Transit, to diving into the psychology of parenting through another one of her projects Kunju Kunju Valiya Karyangal, she constantly explores her horizons through visual media. Her latest works include the docufiction Swami Anandatheerthan: Sanyasi And The Rebel, and Climate Resilience: Life As Told By Women.
Abhijith Narayanan is a self-taught documentary filmmaker. Having experience in areas of cinematography and video editing for five years, he has worked in making numerous short-form educational YouTube videos as well as worked in the core team of three long-format documentary films, including Climate Resilience: Life As Told By Women, which highlighted issues faced by the coastal communities of Kerala through women’s lenses. He has collaborated with IIT Bombay on various projects and has been part of two award-winning documentaries.
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