Gayatri Menon

Biography

"Gayatri Menon works on the political economy of development, focusing on urbanization, displacement, and questions of home. She has taught at the graduate and post-graduate levels for several years, first at Cornell University and subsequently at Franklin and Marshall College, offering courses in political sociology and on theories, politics and practices of development. She also has extensive experience in the NGO sector, having worked on rural livelihoods and indebtedness in Maharashtra, on agricultural practices and politics in Garhwal, on land tenure and housing rights with a global network of women’s groups, and has served on the board of Aangan Trust for over ten years. She has published her research in peer-reviewed journals, developed issue briefs, and co-edited Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the making of everyday life. She is currently working on a book on the lives and histories of pavement dwellers in Mumbai. Her teaching includes Theories, histories and alternatives to development; political sociology."

Research Interest

Sociology of Development, Political Sociology, Modernity, Urban Sociology, Political Economy, Ethnography, Feminist Theory and Historical Sociology