Indian Energy Policy

Elizabeth Chatterjee

I work on politics in contemporary India. My doctoral research at the Oxford Department of International Development focuses on Indian energy policy, especially the persistent problems of the power sector. I use these as a lens to analyze how the institutions and policymaking processes of the Indian state have changed during the liberalization era.

My recent publications include a book chapter on capitalism and the Indian state, and a travel book based on my fieldwork experiences in Delhi. In the past I have also worked with Unicef and Oxfam GB on sanitation, urban poverty, and the informal economy in India and beyond.

I am also working on a collaborative project on procrastination, that most ubiquitous of academic phenomena. We are exploring its understudied social and cultural dimensions, from self-help books to slacker films. Currently this takes the form of a blog, a conference, and a seminar series, with a book of collected articles likely in the future.