Sharad Chari

Sharad Chari is a geographer at the London School of Economics, and research fellow at the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is the author of Fraternal Capital: Peasant-workers, self-made men, and globalisation in provincial India (Stanford University Press and Permanent Black, India, 2004), co-editor of The Development Reader (Routledge, 2008), and is currently writing a book called Apartheid Remains, on the historical and material remains of state racism and opposition in South Africa, as witnessed by neighbours of oil refineries in South Durban. Sharad completed his PhD in Geography in 2000 from the University of California at Berkeley and was at the Michigan Society of Fellows and the Anthropology and History Departments at the University of Michigan, 2000-03.