Surbhi Kesar

Surbhi Kesar is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at SOAS University of London. Her recent and ongoing work focusses on labour and informal economy and the reproduction of the structure of economic dualism in India with high economic growth, thereby critiquing the imaginary of development-as-capitalist-transition; relations between identities and social exclusion in India; political economy of the impact of Covid-19 pandemic; a critical engagement with the social reproduction theory; and approaches towards decolonising the field of economics.

She received her PhD in Economics from South Asian University, New Delhi, and has been a Fulbright Fellow at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Prior to joining SOAS, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.

She is an editorial board member of the Review of Radical Political Economics journal and the Review of Political Economy journal. She is also affiliated with Azim Premji University, Bengaluru as a visiting faculty and as a faculty fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Employment in the University. She is a Steering Group member for the Diversifying and Decolonising Economics initiative.