Dr Garima Jaju is a Lecturer at the Department of International Development. She researches the intersections of economy, kinship, and intimate aspirations, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork 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 a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge, on the ESRC-funded GendV Project.

Research

• Labour and work
• Money
• Gender and kinship
• Ethnographic methods

Over the past decade, Garima has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in India on precarious labour in urban economies and, more recently, on the gendered circulation of money within households and kinship networks. Her work foregrounds the agentive life-making practices of those living and working at the margins of financialised capitalism, with particular attention to the everyday intersections of gender, class, and caste. Her work engages debates in Anthropology, Critical Development Studies and South Asian Studies.

She has published in Cultural Anthropology, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Modern Asian Studies, Ethnography, among others. She is currently completing her first monograph, titled 'Agent Money', which interrogates women’s relationships to money in urban India.

She is also interested in exploring creative approaches to ethnographic storytelling.