Amita Baviskar
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INCLUSIVE POLICY AND SCHEDULED TRIBES
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DR. AMITA BAVISKAR
SUBMITTED BY: ANJALY BABY SACHIN C PUJAR AMELIA SOHTUN
INTRODUCTION
Dr. Amita Baviskar was born on 9th May 1965.Amita Baviskar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Professor Amita Baviskar received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1986 and Master of Arts degrees in Sociology in 1988 from the University of Delhi. She then received her Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University in 1992.
Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. More recently, she has focused on urban environmental politics, especially bourgeois environmentalism and spatial restructuring in the context of economic liberalization in Delhi. Her latest research examines changing food practices in western India in relation to the transformation of agrarian environments. She has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Cornell, Yale, London School of Economics and the University of California at Berkeley.
She is on the Boards of several academic journals and non-governmental organizations working on environmental and social justice issues. She served as an independent member of the Forest Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests during 2010-12.
Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and cultural identity. Her first book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley discussed the struggle for survival by adivasis in central India against a large dam. Her concept of 'cultural politics ' deepens the conventional understanding of social action by showing how interests and ideologies are formed in the course of collective practice and how their complex interaction with dominant ideas and institutions often produces unintended effects.
Her
INCLUSIVE POLICY AND SCHEDULED TRIBES
ASSIGNMENT
DR. AMITA BAVISKAR
SUBMITTED BY: ANJALY BABY SACHIN C PUJAR AMELIA SOHTUN
INTRODUCTION
Dr. Amita Baviskar was born on 9th May 1965.Amita Baviskar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Professor Amita Baviskar received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1986 and Master of Arts degrees in Sociology in 1988 from the University of Delhi. She then received her Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University in 1992.
Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. More recently, she has focused on urban environmental politics, especially bourgeois environmentalism and spatial restructuring in the context of economic liberalization in Delhi. Her latest research examines changing food practices in western India in relation to the transformation of agrarian environments. She has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Cornell, Yale, London School of Economics and the University of California at Berkeley.
She is on the Boards of several academic journals and non-governmental organizations working on environmental and social justice issues. She served as an independent member of the Forest Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests during 2010-12.
Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and cultural identity. Her first book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley discussed the struggle for survival by adivasis in central India against a large dam. Her concept of 'cultural politics ' deepens the conventional understanding of social action by showing how interests and ideologies are formed in the course of collective practice and how their complex interaction with dominant ideas and institutions often produces unintended effects.
Her
References: 1. Representing Narmada In the Belly of the River by Amita Baviskar Review by: Krishna Kumar Economic and 2. Political Weekly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Jan. 18, 1997), pp. 92-93Published by: Economic and Political Weekly. 3. http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2010/amita-baviskar.asp. 4. Economic and Political Weekly 2006-2014