Amita Baviskar

Delhi

Amita Baviskar is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development in rural and urban India. Her book, In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley and subsequent publications explore the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and discourses of environmentalism. Her current work examines changing food practices in western India and the transformation of agrarian environments. Amita Baviskar’s recent publications include Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power (Oxford University Press); Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes (with Raka Ray, Routledge); and First Garden of the Republic: Nature on the President’s Estate (Publications Division, Govt of India). She has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Cornell, Yale, SciencesPo, and the University of California at Berkeley.