Dr. Garima Jaju

Biography

Garima Jaju is a Lecturer in the Department of International Development at King's College London. Her research focuses on the intersections of economy, kinship, and intimate aspirations, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted in India. Garima holds a DPhil and MPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford and a BA in Economics from the University of Delhi. She has held postdoctoral positions as a Smuts Research Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies and as a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, as well as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge, working on the ESRC-funded GendV Project. Garima's research interests encompass labor, money, gender, and kinship, with an emphasis on ethnographic methods. Over the past decade, her work has highlighted the agentive life-making practices of individuals living and working at the margins of financialized capitalism, paying particular attention to the everyday intersections of gender, class, and caste. Her academic contributions include publications in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Modern Asian Studies, and she is interested in exploring creative approaches to ethnographic storytelling.

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