Professor Amrita Pande

Professor in the Department of Sociology

Amrita Pande is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. Her research revolves around globalisation and the intimate, focusing on reproductive labour and new reproductive technologies. Her most recent book is based on the multi-billion-dollar industry of paid pregnancy, Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India (2014: Columbia University Press). She writes for national newspapers globally and has been invited to discuss her work on surrogacy on Laurie Taylor's Thinking Allowed on the BBC, Sarah Carey’s Newstalk on Irish radio, DR2 Deadline on Danish National television, Morning Live on SABC2, South Africa and Otherwise SAfM. Currently, she is leading Rand and the Reproductive Body: Markets for Reproduction in South Africa, a large NRF-funded initiative based in the Sociology department. This project will map the "global fertility flows" (of eggs, sperms, travelling gamete donors and surrogates) that connect countries in the global south.