Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling

Debarati Sen

Debarati Sen is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Anthropology at the University of Houston. She is an interdisciplinary cultural anthropologist with expertise in South Asia. Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling, her first monograph, is an outcome of fourteen years of engagement with issues of sustainability, fair trade, and gender justice in eastern India. The book has received The International Studies Association's award for the Global Development Section, the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women's Studies Association, and an honourable mention for the Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize. Sen is currently working on her second book, Subnational Enterprise: Militarization, Masculinity, and Rise of the Right-Wing in India's Eastern Border. In 2021, she co-edited a special issue of the Journal of South Asian Development, “Women’s Collectives and Social Transformations in South Asia: Negotiations, Navigations and Self-Making”.