Future global water wars are now widely predicted. In 1995, Ismail Seragaldin, vice president of the World Bank (1993–2000), first raised the specter of crisis with the ...
Laura Bear
Laura Bear is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of The Jadu House (2000), Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers and the Intimate Historical Self (2007), and Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt along a South Asian River (2015). She has also written many articles on the themes of time, the public good, and austerity, and is currently working on a four-year cross-disciplinary research initiative funded by the Economic and Social Research Council called “Rebuilding Macroeconomics.” 