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PhD Sociology Delhi University
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According to Wikipedia, Amita Baviskar is a sociologist and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology & Anthropology at Ashoka University, India. Previously, she was Professor at the Sociology Unit, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India. She received the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research and, in 2010, was awarded the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences – Sociology in recognition of her analysis of social and environmental movements in modern India. Baviskar studies the cultural politics of environment and development in rural and urban India.

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Amita Baviskar's Published Works

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In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley (1995) (372)
Between violence and desire: space, power, and identity in the making of metropolitan Delhi (2003) (345)
Introduction: critical perspectives on food sovereignty (2014) (196)
Untouchability in Rural India (2006) (195)
Untouchability in Rural India (2006) (195)
Elite and everyman : the cultural politics of the Indian middle classes (2011) (107)
Between Micro-Politics and Administrative Imperatives: Decentralisation and the Watershed Mission in Madhya Pradesh, India (2004) (91)
What the Eye Does Not See: The Yamuna in the Imagination of Delhi (2011) (59)
Tribal Politics and Discourses of Environmentalism (1997) (47)
Democracy versus Economic Transformation (2008) (45)
Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: Bourgeois Environmentalists and the Battle for Delhi's Streets (2020) (43)
Climate change and agrarian struggles: an invitation to contribute to a JPS Forum (2021) (36)
Spectacular Events, City Spaces and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi (2013) (27)
Forest management as political practice: Indian experiences with the accommodation of multiple interests (2001) (25)
Contested grounds : essays on nature, culture, and power (2008) (23)
Urban concerns: An introduction (2011) (23)
Rethinking Indian Environmentalism. Industrial Pollution in Delhi and Fisheries in Kerala (2006) (21)
Winning the Right to Information in India: Is Knowledge Power (2010) (20)
Breaking Homes, Making Cities: Class and Gender in the Politics of Urban Displacement (2009) (19)
Consumer Citizenship: Instant Noodles in India (2018) (15)
Ecology and Development in India: A Field and its Future (1997) (13)
Pedagogy, Public Sociology and Politics in India (2008) (12)
Dreaming Big: Spectacular Events and the ‘World-Class’ City: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi (2014) (12)
The Politics of Being ”Indigenous” (2013) (12)
Nation’s body, river’s pulse: Narratives of anti-dam politics in India (2019) (9)
VANISHING FORESTS, SACRED TREES: A HINDU PERSPECTIVE ON ECO-CONSCIOUSNESS (1999) (8)
Farmers’ protests in India: introduction to the JPS Forum (2021) (7)
Malignant growth: The Sardar Sarovar dam and its impact on public health (1994) (7)
Special Module: Plenary Debate from the IUAES World Congress 2013: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds, 5–10 August 2013 (2016) (7)
Selection strategy for yield improvement in rajmash (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) (2002) (6)
Governing the Contaminated City: Infrastructure and Sanitation in Colonial and Postcolonial Bombay International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2014) (4)
Food and agriculture (2012) (4)
Public interest and private compromises (2012) (4)
Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience ∗ (2006) (4)
Indian Indigeneities: Adivasi Engagements with Hindu Nationalism in India (2020) (3)
contract Killings: Silicosis among adivasi m igrant Workers (2008) (3)
Indian environmental politics: an interview (2010) (3)
An uncivil city * (2020) (3)
COVID-19 at Home: Gender, Class, and the Domestic Economy in India (2020) (3)
Stability of seed yield and yield contributirlg characters in french bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) (2002) (2)
Winning the Right to Information Campaign in India (2008) (2)
HETEROSIS IN SESAMUM AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH COMBINING ABILITY (1998) (2)
The Chipko Movement: A People's History (2022) (2)
New Cultures of Food Studies (2019) (2)
Street food and the art of survival: migrants and places in Delhi, India (2021) (2)
For a Sociology of India: Satish Saberwal in conversation with Nandini Sundar and Amita Baviskar (2008) (1)
The burden of resources : oil and water in the Gulf Region and the Nile Basin (2011) (1)
GENETIC STUDIES ON GRAIN YIELD AND ITS COMPONENTS IN PEARL MILLET ( Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke) (1990) (1)
Urban Nature and Its Publics: Shades of Green in the Remaking of Delhi (2019) (1)
Development, nature and resistance : The case of Bhilala tribals in the Narmada valley (1992) (1)
Natural crossing in safflower (1991) (1)
The Politics of Land and Citizenship (2012) (1)
A Grain of Sand on the Banks of Narmada (1999) (1)
Book Reviews : DIPANKAR GUPTA, Rivalry and Brotherhood: Politics in the Life of Farmers in Northern India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 218 (1999) (0)
Book reviews (2006) (0)
Report on Duke Kunshan conference on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Citizenship, 22–24 May 2017, Kunshan, China (2018) (0)
Discussion: The Political Uses of Sociology: Tribes and the Sardar Sarovar Project (1995) (0)
The Duke Kunshan Conference on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Citizenship: 22–24 May 2017 (2018) (0)
Book Reviews (1994) (0)
Winning the Right toInformation Campaign in India. (2008) (0)
Genotype×environment interaction effect on seed yield of French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) (2004) (0)
Mood (2017) (0)
AMMI approach for seed yield and stability of french bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) (2006) (0)
India: A tale of two movements – South Asia Citizens Web (2020) (0)
Book Review 1 (2004) (0)
A Study of Mental Health & Job Satisfactions of Bank Employees in Jalgaon City (2016) (0)
Book Review: Ann Grodzins Gold. 2017. Shiptown: Between Rural and Urban North India (2018) (0)
Coda : Participolis: Protest and Participation in the City (2020) (0)
Introduction (2010) (0)
Book Reviews and Notices (1993) (0)
Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai . By Svati P. Shah. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. 280 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). (2015) (0)
Sujata Patel and Kushal Deb (eds), Urban Studies (Oxford in India Readings in Social and Cultural Anthropology). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 486 pp. Tables, notes, references. Rs 595 (hardback) (2010) (0)
“Cities have gained water at the expense of the countryside in India” – Amita Baviskar (2017) (0)
Rhetoric of Participation (1995) (0)
The Furies Of Indian Communalism By Achin Vanaik (2022) (0)

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