Social Reproduction Theory as Diagnostic, Abolition as Politics: Reimagining Anticapitalism

TITHI BHATTACHARYA is a professor of South Asian History at Purdue University. She is the author of Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal (2024) and the editor of the now-classic study Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (2017). Her coauthored books include the popular Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (2019, with Cinzia Arruzza and Nancy Fraser), which has been translated into over thirty languages. She writes extensively on Marxist theory, gender, and the politics of Islamophobia. Her work has been published in the Journal of Asian Studies, South Asia Research, The Guardian, Jacobin, The Nation, and the New Left Review. She is on the editorial board of Studies on Asia and Spectre.