School of Social and Political Science

Background

Silvia Pergetti holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the lived experience of energy access projects and technologies in the context of international development interventions.

Publications

Pergetti, S. 2024. Tongue, tape, and time: Caring masculinities in the practice of electrical repair and maintenance work in India's Sundarbans. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 31(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14162

Pergetti, S. 2023. Sustainability is not a thing: it's hard work! Recognizing the middlemen of operations and maintenance for feminist energy systems in India's Sundarbans. Energy Research & Social Science, 105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103290

Qualifications

2018-24: PhD Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

2017-18: MScR Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

2015-17: MSc Anthropology and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science

Prizes and Awards

2017: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Scholarship 1+3

2017: LSE Lucy Mair prize for best MSc Anthropology and Development dissertation (2016/2017)

Guest lectures

2023-24: Ways of Seeing Energy in Anthropology (Week 10 on UG-PG course Energy in the Global South)

2022-23: Fuelling & Fixing (Climate Change) (Week 6 on UG course Social Life and Climate Change)

2022-23: Technology in the Anthropology of Development (Week 9 on PG course People First)

Panels organised

Through a Feminist Lens: Unsettling South Asian Masculinities (2022 AAA Annual Meeting)