Ishita Patil

Project Associate
School
School of Social Sciences
Programme
E-mail
ishita.patil@nias.res.in
Department
Alumni

Ishita holds a Master’s in Public Policy from St Xavier’s College and BSc Economics (Hons) from Symbiosis School of Economics. Previously, she was associated with the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay where she worked on a project studying the effects of climate change on the fishing community in Maharashtra. Her research interests include labour, migration and livelihood studies.

Publications
What happened to the fishing school?: Education, mobility and perceptions of wellbeing in a traditional fishing community in Western India.
The issue is exploitation, not migration.
The confessions of an ethnographer: adapting to the new normal.
What happened to the Fishing School? Education, Mobility and Perceptions of Well-being in a Traditional Fishing Community in Western India
Ishita Patil, Nitya Rao
Inequality and Human Development
What happened to the fishing school?: Education, mobility and perceptions of wellbeing in a traditional fishing community in Western India.
In Education, Migration and Development: Critical Perspectives in a Moving World. Bloomsbury UK
Ishita Patil
co-authored
Inequality and Human Development
What happened to the Fishing School? Education, Mobility and Perceptions of Well-being in a Traditional Fishing Community in Western India
Co-authored with Nitya Rao. Education, Migration and Development
28 October 2022
Journal Articles
Ishita Patil, Ayesha Pattnaik
Inequality and Human Development
The issue is exploitation, not migration.
Published in India Development Review (May 18).
18 May 2021
Op-Eds and Comments
Ishita Patil
Inequality and Human Development
The confessions of an ethnographer: adapting to the new normal.
Published in Ethnographic Marginalia (April 21).
21 April 2021
Op-Eds and Comments