Manisha Anantharaman, Assistant Professor, published ‘Recycling Class: The contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability’ with MIT Press in 2024. This book is an ethnographic and community-based study of class, caste, and gender politics in environmental mobilisations around Bengaluru, India's waste capital.

It has received two awards:

• The 2025 Book Award for Development Sociology from the American Sociological Association https://lnkd.in/eHTqnDij
• The 2025 Book Award for Global Development Studies from the International Studies Association

These important distinctions highlight work that links issues of inequality and environmental governance to the study of development.

To learn more about the book, here is the link: Recycling Class (MIT Press) https://lnkd.in/dvw-Fhrc