Ritty Lukose | Generation as Conjuncture: Youth and the Politics of Aspiration in India Today

Ritty Lukose

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gender/Sexuality/Feminist Studies and South Asian Studies, Gallatin School, New York University

Ritty Lukose is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gender/Sexuality/Feminist Studies and South Asian Studies at the Gallatin School at New York University. She is the author of Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India (Duke, 2009) and co-edited a book, South Asian Feminisms (Duke, 2012).  A co-edited book with Tejaswini Niranjana is forthcoming entitled Digital Intimacy: Young Women, Gendered Modernities and Aspirations in Inter-Asia (Routledge, 2026). She has published book chapters and articles in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, Social History, Social Analysis, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly. Recent publications include “Decolonizing Feminism in the #MeToo Era” in The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology,  “South Asia” in The Routledge Global History of Feminism and “The Great Indian Kitchen: Taste, Distaste, Feminism and Women’s Emancipation” in Verge: Studies in Global Asias”.