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Sharad Chari
Sharad Chari is a professor in the Geography Department at UC Berkeley. He was drawn to geography during his undergraduate years, also at Berkeley, because the interdisciplinary nature of geographical inquiry helped him understand what makes the social, cultural and environmental dynamics of places, regions, and perhaps even our planet unique. He loves teaching, and spends a great deal of time thinking about ways of inspiring Berkeley’s dynamic student body.
Sharad’s research has been about the agrarian origins of an industrial town in South India (Fraternal Capital, Stanford University Press, 2004), the crisis of the world ocean (Gramsci at Sea, University of Minnesota Press, 2023), and, most recently, what remains today of a century of racial capitalism, segregation, and struggle in South Africa as seen from the Indian Ocean city of Durban (Apartheid Remains, Duke University Press and University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2024.) He is currently working on a book on the life and politics of iconic South African Black lesbian activist and artist, Beverley Palesa Ditsie (Temple University Press, forthcoming.) He is also working on the islands and littorals of Indian Ocean across Mozambique, South Africa, Mauritius and Reunion Island. He gardens, bicycles, cooks, meditates, and reads. And he loves a form of travel built on curiosity about places and people, their pasts and futures.
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