Manisha Anantharaman

Manisha Anantharaman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Center de Sociologie des Organisations (Sciences Po). Her critical and interdisciplinary research explores inequality in ecological transitions. She has published two books connecting environmental justice, sustainability, and development: “Recycling Class: The contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability” (MIT Press, 2024) and a co-edited volume “The Circular Economy and the Global South” (Routledge, UK, 2019). Her current research projects include a Belmont Forum/US National Science Foundation funded project studying Digitalization and Sustainable Consumption. Her research outputs have been published in Urban Studies, Journal of Cleaner Production, and the Journal of Consumer Culture. Beyond research, Manisha is an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House’s Environment and Society Program, through which she serves as an expert consultant for organizations such as the UN Environment Program.

She completed her PhD at the University of California Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management (2015), where she was a Berkeley Connect Fellow. Before this, she was an Inlaks Scholar at the University of Oxford studying mathematics and biology.