Ritty Lukose

Ritty Lukose's teaching and research interests explore the relations between culture, politics, and economy in relation to gender and sexuality across the varied terrain of globalization, especially as they impact contemporary South Asia. With a background in anthropology, her current project entitled “Between Empire and Neoliberalism: The ‘Woman Question’ in the International System of the 1970s” explores how the category of “woman” emerged in that decade as a site for internationalist visions of development and democracy. She is also part of a research team conducting an ethnographic study entitled “Digital Intimacy: Young Women and Social Transformation in Asia” across Guangzhou (China), Singapore, Hong Kong and Bengaluru (India). Her book, Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India, was published by Duke University Press in 2009 and co-published in India by Orient Blackswan in 2010. A co-edited book, South Asian Feminisms was published by Duke University Press (2012) and Zubaan, a leading feminist press in India. She has published book chapters and articles in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, Social History, Social Analysis, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly. Recent publications include “Decolonizing Feminism in the #MeToo Era” in The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, “South Asia” in The Routledge Global History of Feminism and “The Great Indian Kitchen: Taste, Distaste, Feminism and Women’s Emancipation” in Verge: Studies in Global Asias” (in press).