Lucy Dubochet is Ambizione Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology in Bern and a research associate at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Her current research project focuses on young people’s aspirations in urban India. Combining ethnographic methods with quantitative insights, she explores how aspirations influence everyday practices, and how this relation is shaped by gender. Beyond such temporal imagination, she also hopes to shed light on the different meanings and conditions of youth in contemporary urban India.
More broadly, her research focuses on time, gender and everyday politics in India’s urban centres. Her current work on youthful imaginations of the future builds on earlier research focused on the present, particularly on what prolonged waiting reveals above gendered relations of power in everyday life.
She holds a PhD in development studies at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford’s South Asia Research Cluster. She has taught courses on the anthropology of youth and on critical approaches to development at the University of Bern and Lausanne. Prior to academia, she founded and led Oxfam India’s research unit and lived in India for many years.
