S2 E2 Cookstove Chronicles: An Interview with Anthropologist Meena Khandelwal

Who do so many Indian women in India continue to use their wood-burning, smoke-spewing stoves called ‘chulhas’ when they have other options? Meena Khandelwal, Associate Professor of Feminist Sociocultural Anthropology explores this paradox in her new book 'Cookstove Chronicles', published by University of Arizona Press in their series Critical Green Engagements. In this book, based on multidisciplinary collaboration with engineers, archaeologists, development specialists, and others, Dr. Khandelwal discusses chulhas as women’s local low-tech technology as well as craft and work. In doing so she highlights the messy reality of actual behavior. (Listen to the episode to hear a discount code that gives you 30% off the book!)