Amrita Pande is Professor of Sociology and Fellow at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of transnational reproduction, repro-genetic justice, and feminist methodologies, with a particular commitment to multimodal and mobile ethnography. Over the past two decades, she has conducted sustained fieldwork across global fertility clinics in India, Cambodia, Ghana, and South Africa, tracing how labour, technology, race, and gender reshape contemporary reproduction.
Pande is the author of Wombs in Labor: Transnational Surrogacy in India (Columbia University Press, 2014), a field-defining book that has been adapted into the multimedia performance Made in India: Notes from a Baby Farm, which she performs internationally. Her recent books include Birth Controlled: Selective Reproduction and Neo-Eugenics in India and South Africa (Manchester University Press, 2022); Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University (with Ruchi Chaturvedi and Shari Daya, Wits University Press, 2023); and Scripting Defiance (with Ari Sitas et al., Tulika, 2022).
Her work has appeared in leading journals such as Signs, Gender & Society, Medical Anthropology, and International Migration Review. A public-facing scholar, Amrita regularly writes for national newspapers and appears on international radio and television. In 2022, she founded the After Eight Sistahood in South Africa, a feminist movement reclaiming women’s presence—and joy—in public spaces after dark.
