Expert Disenchantment: The Affective Consequences of the Scientific Pursuit of Quality in Postcolonial Markets [1]
in partnership with the South Asia Center
About the Speaker:
Amrita A. Kurian [2] is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CASI. She has a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from UC San Diego and an M.Phil in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics. Her ethnographic research is based in the Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco sector in rural Andhra Pradesh, India, where she studies experts’ scientific and affective mediation of markets and agrarian relations of production. Her articles “Flowers of Deception,” “Expert Disenchantment,” and “Progressive Farmers” are at various stages of review in Cultural Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Human Values, and Geoforum. Her essay “Accusations of Corruption: A Cautionary Tale from Indian Tobacco Auctions [3]” was published in India in Transition and Scroll.in [4].