Jayita Sarkar
Invited researcher of the 2024 DEA Programme
Published at 19 June 2024
Jayita Sarkar is Associate Professor of Global History of Inequalities at the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Political Sciences.
She is a series editor at University of North Carolina Press for InterConnections: The Global Twentieth Century, a book series that is home to innovative global, international, and transregional histories of the long twentieth century.
Her first book, Ploughshares and Swords. India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2022), was awarded the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies and Honorable Mention for Global Development Studies Book Award from the International Studies Association.
Title: Atomic Capitalism. A Global History (under contract with Princeton University Press, America in the World series) is a 100-year history of nuclear sites, from mining to energy to weapons-testing, retold through histories of capitalism, empire, and decolonisation.
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