Mihika Chatterjee

Mihika is a political economist with an interdisciplinary orientation to international development. She is a Lecturer in International Development, and Co-Director of Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath.

Mihika’s current research straddles two interlinked strands. The first is focused on the politics of land dispossession and rural industrialisation in Western India. The second examines the contemporary role of finance in global food regimes and issues of food production and access in the agrarian South. More broadly, she is interested in the political economy of late-industrialisation, labour struggles, food politics, and rural inequalities. Beyond academic publications, her work has been featured in the Al Jazeera, BBC World Service, and Danish media outlet Raeson.

Mihika co-convenes the joint study group on ‘Land, Labour, and Food’ for the Development Studies Association and European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes.

Before joining the department of Social and Policy Sciences, Mihika was a departmental lecturer at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, where she taught on the MPhil in Development Studies programme and supervised a range of masters dissertations.  

Mihika has a doctorate in International Development and MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford.

Co-Director, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath

Pathway lead for SWDTP - International Development and Area Studies

• Land politics
• Rural labour and rural inequalities
• Financialisation & State
• Political economy of green transitions