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Akhil Gupta

Anthropology

#71

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#118

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Cultural Anthropology

#8

World Rank

#14

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Akhil Gupta's Degrees

PhD Anthropology Stanford University
Masters Anthropology Stanford University
Bachelors Economics Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Akhil Gupta is an Indian-American anthropologist whose research focuses on the anthropology of the state, development, as well as on postcolonialism. He is currently a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a former president of the American Anthropological Association.

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Akhil Gupta's Published Works

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Published Works

Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference (1992) (2880)
Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality (2002) (1948)
blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state (1995) (1677)
Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (1997) (809)
Anthropological locations : boundaries and grounds of a field science (1999) (713)
Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India (1998) (567)
The anthropology of the state : a reader (2006) (526)
Culture, Power, Place: Ethnography at the End of an Era (1997) (380)
Culture/Power/Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (1998) (314)
The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism (1992) (309)
The Promise of Infrastructure (2018) (285)
Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India (2012) (232)
Paradoxical Infrastructures (2016) (171)
Introduction: Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of Infrastructure (2020) (117)
AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF ELECTRICITY FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH (2015) (111)
Narratives of corruption (2005) (90)
2. The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure (2020) (87)
The State in India after Liberalization : Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2010) (44)
Rethinking the Anthropology of Corruption (2018) (43)
The Reincarnation of Souls and the Rebirth of Commodities: Representations of Time in "East" and "West" (1992) (42)
Authorship, research assistants and the ethnographic field (2014) (38)
Ludwik Fleck: On Medical Experiments on Human Beings : Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk (2016) (37)
Governing Population: The Integrated Child Development Services Program in India (2001) (36)
Reliving Childhood? The Temporality of Childhood and Narratives of Reincarnation (2002) (36)
Intimate Encounters: Affective Labor in Call Centers (2016) (31)
Globalization and Postcolonial States (2006) (29)
Chapter 4. Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality (2008) (23)
The Political Economy of Post-Independence India—A Review Article (1989) (15)
Introduction: The Infrastructure Toolbox (2015) (14)
Farming as speculative activity: the ecological basis of farmers’ suicides in India (2017) (14)
Changing Forms of Corruption in India* (2017) (14)
Future tense: Capital, labor, and technology in a service industry: The 2017 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture (2017) (13)
Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (1999) (12)
Introduction: The state in India after liberalization (2010) (11)
Messy bureaucracies (2013) (11)
Post Colonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India. By Akhil Gupta. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. xv + 409 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $64.95, paper $21.95 (2001) (10)
Structural violence and politics (2013) (8)
State, corruption, postcoloniality: A conversation with Akhil Gupta on the 20th anniversary of “Blurred Boundaries” (2015) (8)
Globalisation and Difference: Cosmopolitanism Before the Nation-State (2008) (5)
Revolution in Telengana (1946–1951): (Part Two) (1984) (5)
On politics and precarity in academia (2019) (5)
2. A Different History of the Present: The Movement of Crops, Cuisines, and Globalization (2019) (4)
Chapter 13. Viewing States from the Global South (2015) (3)
Technology, power and the state in a complex agricultural society : the green revolution in a north Indian village (1989) (3)
Peasants and Global Environmentalism: A New Form of Governmentality? (2012) (2)
National Poverty and Global Poverty in the Age of Neoliberalism (2011) (2)
Agrarian Populism in the Development of a Modern Nation (2012) (2)
Decolonizing US anthropology (2022) (2)
The missed period (2019) (2)
Farming as a speculative activity (2017) (2)
Red Tape: Akhil Gupta on bureaucracy and poverty in India (2012) (2)
Chapter 17. Imagining Nations (2008) (1)
HISTORY, RULE, REPRESENTATION Scattered Speculations on Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume II (2001) (1)
INFRASTRUCTURE AS DECAY AND THE DECAY OF INFRASTRUCTURE (2021) (1)
The State (or Overstated)/Commentaire Sur the State (or Overstated)/Commentaires Sur the State (or Overstated)/"Overstated" Objections?/Where Failure Is Not an Option, Just a Bad Choice: A Comment on the (Over)stated/Reply to Respondents (2010) (1)
AfterPeople's and Cultures' (1997) (1)
“Indigenous” Knowledges: Ecology (2012) (1)
INTRODUCTION: (2018) (1)
National and Global Poverty in the Age of Neoliberalism (2011) (1)
The State and the Politics of Poverty (2012) (1)
Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy (2012) (1)
Internet of Things Wireless Spectrum Sharing for Radio Access (2019) (0)
The Future in Ruins: (2018) (0)
Developmentalism, State Power, and Local Politics in Alipur (2012) (0)
Population and Neoliberal Governmentality (2012) (0)
Capital, labor, and technology in a service industry (2017) (0)
Poverty as Biopolitics (2012) (0)
Resource Allocation with Primavera-P6 Software (2020) (0)
Corruption, Politics, and the Imagined State (2012) (0)
Cosmopolitanism Before the Nation- State (2008) (0)
ICT , VIRTUAL SPACE AND NEW ETHNICITIES (2020) (0)
“Let the Train Run on Paper”: Bureaucratic Writing as State Practice (2012) (0)
Gupta, Akhil ; James Ferguson (eds.). Anthropological locations : boundaries and grounds of a field science. Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; Londres : University of California Press, 1997 (2000) (0)
“Indigenous” Knowledges: Agronomy (2012) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Anyone familiar with South Asian bureaucracy will nod in recognition when reading Red Tape, an ethnographic exploration of local-level governance in India. While considering these pervasive but understudied bureaucratic processes, Akhil Gupta takes on scholarly debates about governance and structura (2014) (0)
Feeling Climate Change (2021) (0)

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