2023 IBioS Student Fellow
Contact Details
rapichan.phurisamban@ires.ubc.ca
Rapichan (Ta) Phurisamban is a PhD candidate in Terre Satterfield’s lab at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. She is an interdisciplinary river scholar who works toward overcoming challenges in modern freshwater and biocultural diversity governance. Her current research brings critical ethnographic scholarship to study lived realities, customary knowledge, and Mekong River science-policy-management interfaces. She also works with riparian community members on a Mekong River and Fish Monitoring Project that underscores locally representative ways of knowing and living with the river. Through her involvement in environmental justice and journey into veganism, she recognizes the responsibility to foreground in her research the voices, expertise, and experiences of humans and nonhumans who have been marginalized and dismissed.