Articles and Essays
Forthcoming. “Reproducing the Plantation.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Essay for Forum series on the “Plantationocene,” edited by Wendy Wolford [pdf]
Forthcoming. "Agrarian Crisis, Affect, and Accumulation.” Invited commentary essay in Dialogues in Human Geography
2023. “Plantation Nation.” In Theorizing the Contemporary series on the “Plantationocene,” edited by Maan Barua, Rebeca Ibáñez Martín, and Marthe Achtnich. Cultural Anthropology website.
2022. "Lobsters, Whales, and Traps: The Politics of Endangerment in the Gulf of Maine.” Environment and Planning E 5(4): 1994-2010. [pdf]
2022. “Stories of Everyday Life in the Darjeeling Hills.” Guest editorial commentary for special issue of Himalaya 41(1): 8-11.
2021. "The Plantation’s Outsides: The Work of Settlement in Kalimpong, India." Comparative Studies in Society and History 63(2): 433-463. [pdf]
2020. "Afterword: Work, Place, and the Value of Ethnography." Anthropology of Work Review 41(2): 129-132. [work place and value of ethnography.pdf]
2021. "A Dress Code for the Revolution." In Theorizing the Contemporary Series on "Majoritarian and Populist Politics in South Asia.," edited by Radhika Govindrajan, Bhoomika Joshi, and Mubashir Rizvi. Cultural Anthropology website.
2020. "Empire and Indigestion: Materializing Tannins in the Indian Tea Industry." Social Studies of Science 50(3): 398-417. [pdf]
2020. "Can't Get There from Here? Writing Place and Moving Narratives." In Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment, edited by Carole McGranahan. Pp. 83-86. Duke University Press.
2020. "Monoculture." In Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, edited by Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian. Pp. 277-280. Punctum Books.
2019. "The Fragility of Work," co-authored with Alex Blanchette. In How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet. edited by Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette. Pp. 1-22. SAR Imprint. University of New Mexico Press.
2019. "Exhaustion and Endurance in Sick Landscapes." In How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet. edited by Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette. Pp. 23-40. SAR Imprint. University of New Mexico Press.
2018. "Introduction: The Naturalization of Work," co-written with Alex Blanchette. In the Theorizing the Contemporary series on "The Naturalization of Work." Cultural Anthropology website, co-edited with Blanchette.
2018. "Sickness." In the Theorizing the Contemporary series, "The Naturalization of Work," Cultural Anthropology website.
2018. "Subnational Occupations: Managing Darjeeling Tea." In Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, Politics, and Environments, edited by Townsend Middleton and Sara Shneiderman. Pp. 197-218. Oxford University Press India.
2017. "The Land in Gorkhaland: On the Edges of Belonging in Darjeeling, India." Environmental Humanities 9(1): 18-39. [pdf]
2017. "Monoculture" In the Theorizing the Contemporary series, "Lexicon for an Anthropocene yet Unseen." Cultural Anthropology website.
2017. "Tea as Hero Crop? Embodied Algorithms and Industrial Reform in India." Science as Culture 26(1): 11-31. [pdf]
2016. "Placing Plants in Territory," co-authored with Jonathan Padwe. Environment and Society: Advances in Research 7: 9-28. [pdf]
2016. The Future of Price: Communicative Infrastructures and the Financialization of Indian Tea. Cultural Anthropology 31(1): 4-29. [pdf]
2015. "Agricultural Justice, Abnormal Justice? An Analysis of Fair Trade's Plantation Problem. Antipode 47(5): 1141-1160. [pdf]
2015. "Looking for Work: Placing Labor in Food Studies," co-authored with Sandy Brown. Labor: Studies of Working-Class History of the Americas 12(1-2): 19-43. [pdf]
2014. "The Labor of Terroir and the Terroir of Labor: Geographical Indication on Darjeeling Tea Plantations." Agriculture and Human Values 31(1): 83-96. [pdf]
Winner of the 2014 Anthropology & Environment Society Junior Scholar Award
Republished in: 2021. Why Food Matters: Critical Debates in Food Studies, edited by Melissa Caldwell. Bloomsbury.
2010. "Colonial Pasts and Fair Trade Futures: Changing Modes of Production and Regulation on Darjeeling Tea Plantations. In Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies, edited by Sarah Lyon and Mark Moberg. Pp. 97-122. NYU Press. [pdf]
Listen to a radio interview about this chapter on KPFA's "Against the Grain" here.
2008. "Can a Plantation be Fair?: Paradoxes and Possibilities in Fair-Trade Darjeeling Tea Certification. Anthropology of Work Review 29(1): 1-9. [pdf]