จักรกริช สังขมณี

I am a Thai anthropologist working across science, technology, and society. My earlier research followed hydro-ontology through irrigation projects, engineers, and the making of the modern state in Thailand.

My recent work follows environmental infrastructures through Bangkok’s heat, humidity, rains, and floods—toward amphibious ecologies, urban atmospheres, and new forms of care.

Currently, I am an anthropology associate professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and a certified advanced open water and conservation scuba diver.

For the past many years, scuba diving has become an integral part of my anthropological fieldwork in addition to being a fun hobby. Based on underwater fieldwork, I recently published a book in Thai entitled Thalasso-anthropology: An Ethnography of Technology, Multispecies, Materiality, and Speculative Story Under the Ocean.