Biography
Manisha Anantharaman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po’s Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CNRS) and an associate fellow in Chatham House’s Environment and Society Centre.
Her research examines the political economy of ecological transitions, with a focus on sustainable consumption, circular economy strategies, urban sustainability, and environmental justice.
Through research in Asia, Europe, and North America she explores how governments, businesses, and citizens navigate the social and political challenges of sustainability transitions, and how efforts to build greener economies can either reinforce or reduce existing inequalities.
She is the author of Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability (MIT Press, 2024) and co-editor of The Circular Economy and the Global South (Routledge, 2019). Her work has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Belmont Forum, and the Swiss Network for International Studies.
Past experience
| 2023-present | Assistant Professor, Sciences Po |
| 2020-23 | Associate Professor, Saint Mary’s College of California |
| 2015-20 | Assistant Professor, Saint Mary’s College of California |
| 2014-15 | Graduate Research Fellow, University of California Berkeley |
| 2013-14 | Consultant, WIEGO International and Hasirudala Cooperative |
| 2008-09 | Program Officer and Research Associate, Conservation and Education (full-time) Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) |