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Dr Tanya Matthan

Dr Tanya Matthan

Affiliated Anthropologist

Department of Anthropology

Languages
English, Hindi
Key Expertise
South Asia

About me

 

Tanya Matthan is an environmental and economic anthropologist focusing on agrarian environments in India. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled 'The Monsoon and the Market: Navigating Risk and Responsibility in Agrarian India', which examines experiences of and engagements with economic and environmental uncertainties among farmers, traders, insurers, and government officials in central India. This work engages with the fields of political ecology, critical agrarian studies, and the anthropology of finance. Writing from this project has been published in GeoforumJournal of Peasant Studies, and Antipode. She is also interested in anti-caste environmental politics, eco-fascism, and the agri-logistics sector. 

Prior to joining the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, Dr. Matthan was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a PhD in Anthropology from UCLA and a MA in Sociology from the University of Delhi. 

Expertise Details

Risk; Agrarian change; Environment; Financialization; Caste; South Asia

Selected Publications

2022. “Beyond Bad Weather: Climates of Uncertainty in Rural India”. Forum on Climate Change and Agrarian Struggles, Journal of Peasant Studies.

2022. “Speculative Crops: Gambling on the Onion in rural India”, Special Issue on ‘Political Ecology of Crops: From State to Seed and Capital’, Geoforum 130: 115-122