Amrita Sharma is an Associate Professor at O P Jindal Global University in Haryana, India. She teaches political studies and works across political economy, political anthropology, political ecology, critical agrarian studies, and political geography. Her research examines the everyday politics of conflicts, resistance, and social movements, with a sustained focus on sovereignty, development, extractivism, nationalism, markets, corruption, infrastructures, states, and militarization.

Her current project studies the political economy of horticulture in Kashmir that approaches political conflict through an embedded understanding of markets and the economy. Drawing on over ten years of immersive ethnographic and comparative fieldwork across the Himalayan regions of Kashmir and Himachal, her work traces agrarian production, trade networks, market practices, bureaucratic regimes, and spectacular surveillance in militarized settings. It foregrounds the materialities of state-making by interrogating the paradoxes of routine and exception. She is presently completing her first book manuscript.
Her writing has appeared in Projections: MIT Journal of Urban Planning, Human Geography, History of the Present, Journal of Peasant Studies, Wasafiri, and The Caravan. She received the Institute of Human Geography Research Grant in 2023 and the NIF Book Fellowship in 2025.

CASAS

The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.