Senior Lecturer Clare Talwalker

Clare Talwalker is trained in cultural anthropology and teaches classes on the history of political economy, economic anthropology, global societies and cultures, and the anthropology of India. She also serves as core faculty for the Global Poverty & Practice Minor. Talwalker grew up in Mumbai, India.   

Education

2000 Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, Duke University

1990 B.A. History with Anthropology, Dartmouth College

Research Areas

Sociocultural Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Postcolonial Studies, South Asia (urban publics, caste, political culture), History and Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, State Practices, Urban and Transnational Anthropology

Contact Information

101 Stephens Hall

ctalwalker@berkeley.edu

Office Hours: Appointments by email

Publications

2021 Book review of Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos, eds. Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, and Rachel Dwyer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), The Journal of Asian Studies 80(1): 216-218.

2016 “Fixing Poverty” in Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World, by Ananya Roy, Genevieve Negron-Gonzalez, Kweku Opoku Agyemang, and Clare Talwalker, (Berkeley: UC Press)

2016 “Introducing Poverty” (contributing author) in Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World, by Ananya Roy, Genevieve Negron-Gonzalez, Kweku Opoku Agyemang, and Clare Talwalker, (Berkeley: UC Press)

2012 “What Kind of Global Citizen is the Student Volunteer?”, Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education, 2(2): 21-40

2009 “Kindred Publics: Kin and Modernity in Western India”, Postcolonial Studies, 12(1): 69-88

2009 Book review of Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood, eds. Bill Maurer and Gabriele Schwab (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), Political and Legal Anthropology Review 32(1): 152-55

2005 “Colonial Dreaming: textbooks in the mythology of ‘primitive accumulation’,” in Dialectical Anthropology 29 (1): 1-34