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Vinay Sankar is a social scientist interested in political ecology and pluralist economics. He uses a mixed-methods approach to understand the commodification of commons like water and food. After his Ph.D from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, he was briefly with Christ University, Bangalore, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics. Before switching to academia, he worked in the development sector for four years, where he was associated with the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), Anand, and Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), Pune.