Dr Preeti Sampat holds a PhD in Socio-cultural Anthropology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before joining Krea University, she was a faculty member at Dr B R Ambedkar University, Delhi, and served as a Research Associate at the University of Delhi. Her research interests include land, infrastructure, urbanisation, capital, value rent, economic growth, nature, the state, and social movements. Her forthcoming co-edited volume, Unsettling Land: Relational Lives in the Anthropocene, explores how land and its affordances are understood relationally within historically mediated material and ethnographic contexts.

Dr Sampat has published several chapters and articles on these themes in edited volumes and journals, including the Journal of Peasant Studies, City and Society, and Economic and Political Weekly. She is currently finalizing her monograph, Infrastructures of Impasse: Economic Growth, Value, and Nature in India, which is based on long-term ethnographic and archival research. The book examines India’s growing rentier economy, the more-than-human metabolics of construction, and the resistance to land consolidation for urbanisation, which has fueled India’s land impasse.