Animesh Chatterjee is a historian of science, technology and the environment with particular interests in the history of electricity, material culture, and weather and weathering in colonial India and, specifically, colonial Calcutta.
My project, Weathering Colonial Calcutta,explores an urban, material and cultural history of colonial Calcutta as a story of changing ideas about, and everyday experiences of the weather.
Prior to joining Stavanger, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher on the European Research Council funded project “A Global History of Technology, 1850-2000”. This project investigated the fate of technologies that circulated in various parts of the world from 1850 to 2000, with particular focus on the persistent use of indigenous technologies along with globalised ones, as well as the emergence of hybrid solutions.
Within this project, my research focused on the history of electric supply and objects in the ambivalent and complex social, cultural and political environments and processes of late-nineteenth and early twentieth century Calcutta.
I am currently revising this work, which stemmed from my doctoral research at Leeds Trinity University, for publication as a monograph with Routledge.
