AMITA BAVISKAR DATE OF BIRTH 9 May 1965 CURRENT POSITION Associate Professor Sociology Unit Institute of Economic Growth

CONTACT INFORMATION Postal address: Institute of Economic Growth Delhi University Enclave, Delhi 110007, India. Phones: (+91-11) 2766-7101 extn. 256 (office) and (+91) 98-118-74547 (cell phone) Fax: (+91-11) 2766-7410 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] EDUCATION 1992 1988 1986 Ph.D. (Development Sociology), Cornell University. M.A. (Sociology), University of Delhi. B.A. (Economics), University of Delhi.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE * Teaching interests: graduate and undergraduate courses in environment and development studies, economic anthropology, political sociology, urban anthropology * Research interests: environmental politics, with a focus on social inequality and natural resource conflicts, environmental and indigenous social movements, anthropology of development, urban environmental politics, state formation and the environment in south Asia. Associate Professor, Sociology Unit, Institute of Economic Growth (6/2006 to present) Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University (1/2009 to 5/2009) Visiting Associate Professor, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University (9/2004 to 6/2005) S. V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellow, Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley (8/2002 to 7/2004) Reader in Sociology (Associate Professor), Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, India (5/2002 to 7/2003) Visiting Associate Professor, Polson Institute for Global Development, Cornell University (Fall 2001) Lecturer in Sociology (Senior Scale), Department of Sociology, University of Delhi (1/1999-4/2002)

Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi (1/1994-1/1999) RESEARCH GRANTS AND ACADEMIC AWARDS 2010 2009 2008 2008 2007 2005 2004 2002-4 2001 2000 1998 1992 1990 1988 1988 1986 1981 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences Visiting Associate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research STICERD Visiting Fellowship at the London School of Economics Ford Foundation grant for research on The Middle Classes in India: Identity, Citizenship and the Public Sphere Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies Srinivas Memorial Prize S. V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley Winrock International grant to organize an international conference on The Cultural Politics of Water Residential Fellowship Program in Environment and Culture, Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley Ford Foundation grant for research on Water, Social Stratification and the State Beatrice Brown Award, Cornell University Research grant for pre-dissertation fieldwork: Institute for Intercultural Studies Sage Fellowship, Cornell University Kunda Datar Gold Medal for First in Sociology, University of Delhi National Scholarship: Centre for Advanced Study in Sociology, University of Delhi National Talent Search Scholarship, National Council for Educational Research and Training.

PUBLICATIONS Books 2011 Edited volume Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes (with Raka Ray). New Delhi: Routledge. 2008 2007 2006 2004 2003 1995 In progress In progress Edited volume Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Edited volume Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource. Delhi: Permanent Black. Untouchability in Rural India (with Ghanshyam Shah, Harsh Mander, Sukhdeo Thorat, Satish Deshpande). New Delhi: Sage Publications. In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley. Delhi: Oxford University Press. (second edition) Edited volume Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings. New Delhi: Penguin Books. In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley. Oxford University Press: Delhi. (fifth impression 2002) Reader on Environment and Society for Pearson Educational Publishing: Delhi. Nadi ki Kokh Mein [In the Belly of the River] Hindi edition. Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan.

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters In pressExtraordinary Violence and Everyday Welfare: The State and Development in Rural and Urban India in Soumhya Venkatesan and Thomas Yarrow (eds), Differentiating Development: Beyond an Anthropology of Critique. New York: Berghahn Books. In pressFood and Agrarian Environments in India in Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana (eds), Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Indian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In pressThe City and its Commons in Pooja Sood (ed.), 480c: Public Art and Space in Delhi. New Delhi: Goethe Institute. 2011 Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: Bourgeois Environmentalism and the Battle for Delhis Streets in Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray (eds), Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes, pp. 391-418. New Delhi: Routledge. Spectacular Events, City Spaces and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi

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in Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Colin McFarlane (eds), Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia, pp. 138-161. New Delhi: Routledge. 2010 2010 Urban Exclusions: Public Spaces and the Poor in Delhi in Bharati Chaturvedi (ed.) Finding Delhi: Loss and Renewal in a Megacity, pp. 3-15. New Delhi: Penguin. The Unquiet Woods and Indian Environmental History in Ramachandra Guhas The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, pp. 213-221. Twentieth anniversary edition. New Delhi and Ranikhet: Permanent Black. Social Movements in India in Niraja Gopal Jayal and Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds), Oxford Companion to Politics in India, pp. 381-90. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Is Knowledge Power?: The Right to Information Campaign in India in John Gaventa and Rosemary McGee (eds), Citizen Action and National Policy, pp. 130-52. London: Zed Books. Breaking Homes, Making Cities: Class and Gender in the Politics of Urban Displacement in Lyla Mehta (ed.), Displaced by Development: Confronting Marginalisation and Gender Injustice, pp. 59-81. New Delhi: Sage Publications. Demolishing Delhi: World-Class City in the Making reprinted in Josephine B. Slater and Pauline van Mourik Broekman (eds), Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net, pp. 399-403. London: Mute Publishing and Autonomedia. Environmental History in India in Bharati Ray (ed.), Different Types of History, pp. 147-62. New Delhi: Pearson Educational Publishing. Pedagogy, Public Sociology and Politics in India: What is to be Done in Current Sociology. 56 (3): 425-33. Culture and Power in the Commons Debate in Isha Ray and Pranab Bardhan (eds), The Contested Commons: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists, pp. 107-24. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing and New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Dillchy Suobhikaranch Bourgeois Dhch [The Bourgeois Basis of Delhis Beautification] in Samaj Prabodhan Patrika. 46 (181): 97-104. The Dream Machine: The Model Development Project and the Remaking of the State (reprint) in Kanchan Chopra and C. H. Hanumantha Rao (eds), Growth, Equity, Environment and Population: Economic and Sociological Perspectives, pp. 287-310. New Delhi: Sage Publications.

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Indian Indigeneities: Adivasi Engagements with Hindu Nationalism in India in Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn (eds), Indigenous Experience Today, pp. 275-304. Oxford: Berg Publishers. The Dream Machine: The Model Development Project and the Remaking of the State in Amita Baviskar (ed.), Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource, pp. 281-313. Delhi: Permanent Black. Demolishing Delhi: World-Class City in the Making reprinted in Lalit Batra (ed.), The Urban Poor in Globalising India: Dispossession and Marginalisation, pp. 39-44. Delhi: South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam Publications. Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience in Review of Development and Change. 11 (1): 1-14. Demolishing Delhi: World-Class City in the Making in Mute. 2 (3): 88-95. The Politics of Being Indigenous in Bengt G. Karlsson and Tanka B. Subba (eds), Indigeneity in India. London: Kegan Paul. Foreword to Ranjit Dwivedi Conflict and Collective Action: The Sardar Sarovar Project in India, pp. xi-xxvi. New Delhi and London: Routledge. Rethinking Indian Environmentalism: Industrial Pollution in Delhi and Fisheries in Kerala (with Subir Sinha and Kavita Philip) in Joanne Bauer (ed.), Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood and Contested Environments, pp. 189-256. New York: ME Sharpe. Bhrattl Paryvaran va Viks yanch Snskritik Rjkran [The Cultural Politics of Environment and Development in India] in Samaj Prabodhan Patrika. 44 (176): 42530. Adivasi Encounters with Hindu Nationalism in MP in Economic and Political Weekly. 40 (48): 5105-13. Between Micro-politics and Administrative Imperatives: Decentralization and the Watershed Mission in Madhya Pradesh, India in Jesse Ribot and Anne Larson (eds), Democratic Decentralisation through a Natural Resource Lens, pp. 26-40. London: Routledge. Red in Tooth and Claw?: Searching for Class in Struggles over Nature in Raka Ray and Mary Katzenstein (eds), Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics, pp. 161-78. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

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Between Micro-politics and Administrative Imperatives: Decentralization and the Watershed Mission in Madhya Pradesh, India in European Journal of Development Research. 16 (1): 26-40. Aliens in Bregje van Eekelen, Jennifer Gonzlez, Bettina Sttzer and Anna Tsing (eds), Shock and Awe: War on Words. Santa Cruz, CA: New Pacific Press. For a Cultural Politics of Natural Resources. Introduction to an edited collection on Natural Resources: Conceptions and Contestations in Economic and Political Weekly. 38 (48): 5051-55. Tribal Politics and Discourses of Environmentalism in Paul Greenough and Anna Tsing (eds), Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, pp. 289-318. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Between Violence and Desire: Space, Power and Identity in the Making of Metropolitan Delhi in International Social Science Journal. 175: 89-98. States, Communities and Conservation: The Practice of Ecodevelopment in the Great Himalayan National Park in Vasant Saberwal and Mahesh Rangarajan (eds), Battles over Nature: Science and the Politics of Wildlife Conservation, pp. 267-99. Delhi: Permanent Black. Community and the Politics of Honour in Vandana Madan (ed.), The Village in India, pp. 252-66. Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Kaihatu wo meguru Narmada kyokoku niokeru Toraibu no tatakai (Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley) in Haruka Yanagisawa (ed.), Gendai Minami Ajia 4: Kaihatu to Kankyo (Contemporary South Asia, 4: Economic Development and Environmental Change), pp. 263-80. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. Forest Management as Political Practice: Indian Experiences with the Accommodation of Multiple Interests in International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology. 1 (3/4): 243-263. Environmental Movements in India: The South Forges its own Discourse in James Nickum and Kenji Oya (eds), New Regional Paradigms: Environmental Management, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainable Regional Development, pp. 93-107. London: Greenwood Press. Written on the Body, Written on the Land: Violence and Environmental Struggles in Central India in Nancy Peluso and Michael Watts (eds), Violent Environments, pp. 354-79. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

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The Dialectics of Environmentalism in A. K. Giri (ed.), Rethinking Social Transformation, pp. 231-45. Jaipur: Rawat Publications. Claims to Knowledge, Claims to Control: Environmental Conflict in the Great Himalayan National Park, India in Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes and Alan Bicker (eds), Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives, pp. 101-19. Studies in Environmental Anthropology Vol. 5. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Press. Vanishing Forests, Sacred Trees: A Hindu Perspective on Eco-consciousness in Asian Geographer. 18 (1-2): 21-31. Participating in Ecodevelopment: The Case of the Great Himalayan National Park in R. Jeffery and N. Sundar (eds), A New Moral Economy for India's Forests?: Discourses of Community and Participation, pp. 109-29. New Delhi: Sage Publications. Tribal Communities and Conservation in India in A. Kothari et al. (eds), Communities and Conservation: Natural Resource Management in South and Central Asia, pp. 252-69. New Delhi: Sage Publications. Ecology and Development in India: A Field and its Future in Sociological Bulletin. 46 (2): 193-207. Tribal Politics and Discourses of Environmentalism in Contributions to Indian Sociology. 31 (2): 195-223. Displacement and the Bhilala Tribals of the Narmada Valley in Jean Dreze, M. Samson and S. Singh (eds), The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley, pp. 103-35. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Women and Forests: Dependence without Control in N. Rao and L. Rurup (eds), 1997. A Just Right: Women's Ownership of Natural Resources and Livelihood Security, pp. 347-52. New Delhi: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Reverence is Not Enough: Ecological Marxism and India's Adivasis in E. M. DuPuis and P. Vandergeest (eds), Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse, pp. 204-24. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. The Administration and Human Rights in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh in V. K. Gupta (ed.) Perspectives on Human Rights. Delhi: Vikas Publishing House. Carrying Capacity and Usufruct Rights in W. Fernandes (ed.) Drafting a People's Forest

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Bill: The Forest-dweller - Social Activist Alternative. Delhi: Indian Social Institute. 1996 The Cooperative Movement in India before Independence in L. C. Jain and Karen Coelho In the Wake of Freedom: India's Tryst with Cooperatives. New Delhi: Concept Publishing. The Fate of the Forest: Conservation and Tribal Rights in Economic and Political Weekly. 29 (38): 2493-501. (with A. K. Singh) The Sardar Sarovar Dam and its Impact on Public Health in Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 14 (5-6): 349-58.

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Other journal articles 2010 Resisting Distorted Readings in Economic and Political Weekly. 45 (41): 78-79. 2010 2010 2008 Comment on Tania M. Lis Indigeneity, Capitalism, and the Management of Dispossession in Current Anthropology. 51 (3): 400-01. Between Reason and Resistance in Seminar. 605: 82-85. (with Nandini Sundar) Democracy versus Economic Transformation?. Comment on Partha Chatterjees Democracy and Economic Transformation in India in Economic and Political Weekly. 43 (46): 87-89. Contract Killings: Silicosis among Adivasi Migrant Workers in Economic and Political Weekly. 43 (25): 8-10. For a Cultural Politics of Natural Resources in Maitrayee. 8: 10-13. Water Follies and Frauds in Seminar. 557: 93-96. The Politics of the City in Seminar. 516: 40-42. A Grain of Sand on the Bank of the Narmada in Economic and Political Weekly. 34 (32): 2213-4. Comment on P. Brosius, Analyses and Interventions: Anthropological Engagements with Environmentalism in Current Anthropology. 40 (3): 288-89. Nature at Stake in Seminar. 466: 74-78. Towards a Sociology of Delhi in Economic and Political Weekly. 33 (49): 3101-02.

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Who Speaks for the Victims? in Seminar. 451: 59-61. The Political Uses of Sociology: Tribes and the Sardar Sarovar Project in Sociological Bulletin. 44 (1): 89-96. The Administration and Human Rights in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh in The Administrator. 34 (2): 63-70. Negotiating with Hinduism in Lokayan Bulletin. 11 (1): 25-32. Narmada "Sangharsh Yatra": State Response and its Consequences in Economic and Political Weekly. 26 (9-10): 477-478. Creation Myth of the Bhilalas in Lokayan Bulletin. 9 (3-4): 11-20. The Researcher as Pilgrim in Lokayan Bullletin. 9 (3-4): 91-97.

Book Reviews and Articles for a General Readership More than a hundred book reviews and articles published in journals including Economic and Political Weekly, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Indian Social and Economic History Review, Indian Review of Books, Biblio, The Book Review, Frontline, The India Magazine, The Hindu, Folio, Outlook, The Telegraph, Geo, Outlook Traveller, City Limits, Timeout, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Dainik Bhaskar, Sandarbh, Prabhat Khabar, Amar Ujala. SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Co-Editor, Contributions to Indian Sociology (2007-11) Member, Editorial Team, Review of Urban Affairs, Economic and Political Weekly Member, Editorial Collective, Journal of Peasant Studies Member, Editorial Board, Antipode Member, Editorial Board, Global Environmental Politics Member, Editorial Board, Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal Member, Editorial Board, Biblio Member, Editorial Board, Transforming Cultures Founding Member and Member of the Governing Council, Conservation and Society Founding Member, Kalpavriksh, Environmental Action Group

Member, Governing Board, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore Member, Special Committee of the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University Vice-President, SRUTI (Society for Rural, Urban and Tribal Initiatives) Member, Programme Committee, Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology Member, Advisory Committee, Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India. Member, Forest Advisory Committee, Government of India (from July 2010). Senior Advisor, Indian Institute of Human Settlements (from August 2010). Referee for journals: Development and Change; Economic and Political Weekly; Sociological Bulletin; Indian Social Science Review; Gender, Place and Culture; Ethnography; Critical Asian Studies; Society and Natural Resources; Current Anthropology; Antipode; Indian Economic and Social History Review. Referee for book publishers: Oxford University Press; Sage Publications; Pluto Press; Penguin Books; Duke University Press; Routledge; University of Toronto Press; Berghahn Books Referee for projects: Indian Council of Social Science Research; Social Science Research Council (New York); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada); Japan Foundation Life Member, Indian Sociological Society Member, NCERT Committee for Sociology textbooks, classes XI and XII Funded research projects and consultancies: 2007-2009 Designed, co-ordinated and administered a research project entitled The Middle Classes in India: Identity, Citizenship and the Public Sphere with financial support from the Ford Foundation. Organized an international conference on this theme; an edited volume entitled Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes is in press with Routledge India. Also organized a dissertation workshop for PhD researchers from across the country, and a dialogue between academics and activists to discuss the findings from the project. 1998-2002 Designed, co-ordinated and administered a research project entitled Water, Social Stratification and the State with financial support from the Ford Foundation. Organized an international conference on The Cultural Politics of Water in Delhi in March 2001 with support from Winrock International. An edited volume of the conference papers entitled Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource was published in 2007. 1995-2001 Commissioned as a consultant to: Ford Foundation (researching and writing an institutional history of the Foundations programme for agricultural and water resources development in India); Wildlife Institute of India (for project on Natural Resource Use and

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Conflict Management in the Great Himalayan National Park and for training officers of the Indian Forest Service); Overseas Economic Co-operation Fund, Government of Japan (to advise on a programme for supporting forest-based tussar sericulture as a poverty-alleviation strategy); Swedish International Development Agency (to advise on future water resourcesrelated programmes); and the International Labour Organization (to write a status report on Womens Access to Wastelands). 1992-1993 Worked with a trade union of tribal peasants in Jhabua district, Madhya Pradesh (10/1992-12/1993). Responsibilities included grassroots organizing of villagers around issues of forest rights, dam-induced displacement, and education, as well as managing public relations, networking for joint campaigns, public interest litigation, and fund-raising. M.PHIL. DEGREES SUPERVISED 2002 T. Chaudhuri: Middle-Class Environmentalism in India. 2002 D. Sen: Battles over Biodiversity: The Discourse on State and Property Regimes in India. 2000 S. Pattanaik: Environmental Movements in a Global Context. 1999 F. Ibrahim: A Comparative Study of an Islamic Ritual: Liturgy and Everyday Life in the Karbala Paradigm. 1998 S. Ghatak: The Concept of Agency in Radical Social Movements. 1997 A. Joshi: Environmental Movements and Development. 1996 I. Chaudhuri: Women and Environment in Development: A Study of the Chipko Movement. PH.D. CANDIDATES SUPERVISED A. de Souza: Management of Water Resources in Maharashtra R. Savithri: Property, Kinship and Gender: A Study of Tamils in an Urban Context (ongoing) Chakraverti Mahajan: An Anthropological Study Exploring the Contours of Hindu-Muslim Relations in Jammu & Kashmir (joint supervision with Dr Abhik Ghosh, Panjab University)

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SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS (1997-2009) 2009 The Cultural Politics of Environment and Development in India. Seminar at Trinity College, Dublin. February. Indias Changing Political Economy and its Implications for Forest Users: A Sociological Overview. Paper presented in the conference on Indian Forestry: Key Trends and Challenges organized by the Rights and Resources Initiative (Washington, DC) and INTACH. March. The Politics of Nature on the Streets of Delhi. Lecture in the speaker series on State, Space and Citizenship: Indian Cities in the Global Era at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. March. Spectacular Events, City Spaces and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Keynote address at the conference on Metropolis and Micropolitics at the University of Washington, Seattle. May. No Silver Bullets: Unintended Consequences of Oil and Water Solutions. Talk on National Public Radio, organized by the Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago. May. 2008 Extraordinary Violence and Everyday Welfare: The State and Poverty in Rural and Urban India. Paper presented at a conference on Poverty, Inequality and the State in South Asia organized by the North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. January. Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: The Politics of Nature on the Streets of Delhi. Distinguished Lecture in the Program on the Global Environment Series at the University of Chicago. January. Waterscapes: Seeking Nature and Justice along Indian Rivers. Public lecture at the University of Florida, Gainesville. March. The Politics of Water and the Case for Comparative Analysis. Keynote address at the workshop on The Curse of Scarcity and Abundance? Water and Oil Wars in the Gulf and Nile Basin at the American University in Cairo. April. Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: Bourgeois Environmentalism and the Battle for Delhi's Streets. Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science. June. For a Sociology of India. Panel presentation at the India Forum organized by the Department of Anthropology and the India Observatory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. July.

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Cultural Politics of Environment. Keynote address at a conference on Nature, Knowledge, Power at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. August. Public Interests: Class, Conflict and Collaboration in Greening Indian Cities. Fifth Annual PUKAR Lecture organized by Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research in Mumbai. September. Bourgeois Environmentalism and Urban Justice. Keynote address at a conference on Cities Nature Justice: Dialogues for Social Sustainability in Public Spaces organized by the University of Technology, Sydney. December. The Cultural Politics of Water. Keynote address for the International Conference on Water Resources Policy in South Asia organized by SaciWaters (South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies) in Colombo. December. 2007 Right to Information and the Realization of Democracy. Paper presented at a conference on Alternative Development and Sufficiency Economy for 21st Century organized by the National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand. July. Mapping the Urban: Planning, Technology, Environment. Paper presented at a consultation on the proposed Urban Studies workshop at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. September. People, Power and Water: Tracking the Traffic between Hills and Plains in North India. Paper presented at a conference on Territorial Changes and Territorial Restructurings in the Himalayas at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris. December. 2006 Environmental History: Re-engaging with Materialism?. Paper presented at the conference on Writing History organized by the Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, Calcutta University at Kolkata. March. Water Follies and Frauds: Techno-science, Economics and the Right to Water. Paper presented at the Rivers Symposium organized by the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. October. Is Knowledge Power?: The Right to Information Campaign in India. Paper presented at a workshop on Social Movements and National Policy organized by the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex in Lewes, England. November. Environmentalism in a World Class City: Urban Poor and the Struggle for Livelihoods in Delhi, India. Paper presented at the international conference on Tradition, Environment and Publicness in Asia and the Middle East at Chiba University, Japan. December.

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2005 Indian Indigeneities: Adivasi Engagements with Hindu Nationalism in India. Paper presented at the conference on Indigenous Experience Today organized by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Venice. March. Law, Land and Citizenship: Claiming Indigeneity in India. Keynote address at the conference on Adjudicating Culture, Politicizing Law at University of Texas, Austin. April. Malcolm Adiseshiah Memorial Lecture entitled Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience. Madras Institute of Development Studies. November. 2004 Environmental Identities: The Politics of Nature and Place in India. Keynote address at the First Annual Graduate Conference on South Asia, Cornell University. March. Bourgeois Environmentalism and Urban Resource Politics. Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellows Workshop. University of California, Berkeley. April. Urban Landscapes and Livelihoods: The Politics of Place and Nature in India. Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota. April. Urban Landscapes and Livelihoods: The Politics of Place and Nature in India. Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz. May. Water and its Publics: Social Actions across Spaces and Scales. CAS/MillerComm Lecture delivered as keynote address for the conference on Troubled Waters in a Globalizing World: Community, Property and Conflict over a Vital Resource. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. November. 2003 Understanding Collective Action on the Commons: Questions of Value. Workshop on Conversations between Anthropologists and Economists. Center for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley. August. Bourgeois Environmental Anxieties and Urban Space. Workshop on Middle Class Environmentalism in India. Department of Geography, Kings College, London. August. Migrants and the Making of Metropolitan Delhi: The Cultural Politics of Improving Urban Space. Department of Sociology Research Colloquium, University of Delhi. October. Toxic Citizenship: Environmental Activism, the Public Interest, and Delhis Working Class. South Asia Program and the Global Health Program, University of Iowa. November.

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Environmental Identities: The Politics of Nature and Place in India. York Center for Asian Research, York University, Toronto. November. 2002 The Dream Machine: The Model Development Project and the Remaking of the State. Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University. September. The Cultural Politics of Environment and Development. Invited lecture series. United Nations Development Program, Delhi. September. Breaking Homes, Making Cities: The Politics of Displacement in the Urban Context. Conference on Gender and Displacement organized by the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and ActionAid at Delhi. September. Nature, Landscape and Livelihood: Bourgeois Environmentalism and the Politics of Urban Space. Workshop on The Value of Nature: Ecological Politics in India organized by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung at Neemrana. March. Between Micro-politics and Administrative Imperatives: Decentralization and the Watershed Mission in Madhya Pradesh, India. Workshop on Decentralization and the Environment organized by the World Resources Institute at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center at Bellagio, Italy. March. 2001 Between Violence and Desire: Space, Power and Identity in the Making of Metropolitan Delhi. Conference on Moving Targets: Displacement, Impoverishment and Development, Cornell University. November. Political Representation in Global Movements. South Asia Center, Syracuse University. November. Read papers at the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research and the Crossing Borders Program, University of Iowa. October. Class, Culture and Resistance. Public conference on Global Developments in the 21st Century, Polson Institute for Global Development, Cornell University. September. Gender and Equity in Forest Management in India. Workshop on Community Forest Management from a Gender Perspective, Chiangmai University, Thailand, and Keisen University, Japan. August. Environment and Development in India. CIDA-Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Program, Delhi. June.

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The Politics of Planning. National Consultation on the World Commission on Dams Report, Society for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Delhi. May. Tribal Politics in the Struggle against Displacement. Stanford University. April. Red in Tooth and Claw?: Looking for Class in Struggles over Nature. Conference on Social Movements and Poverty in a Transnational Age, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. April. The Politics of Being Indigenous. Distinguished Lecture Series on Nature, Culture and Social Action in South Asia, University of Michigan. January. 2000 Urban Space and Power. Conference on Delhi: Urban Space and Human Destinies, Centre de Sciences Humaines de New Delhi. December. The Sardar Sarovar Project, Human Rights and Displacement. Symposium on Social Movements in Contemporary India, Department of Political Science, Janaki Devi Memorial College, Delhi. November. Violence and the Environment. The Hague Appeal for Peace, Delhi University Chapter. September. On the Politics of Being Indigenous. Institute for International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. May. The Politics of Being Indigenous. Workshop on Indigenous People: The Trajectory of a Contemporary Concept in India, Uppsala University, Sweden. April. Claiming the Environment: Indigenous Identity in Green Movements. Seminar series at the Department of Anthropology and South Asian Studies Program, University of Washington. April. A Grassroots Movement and Globalization: The Campaign against the Narmada Dams in India. Conference on Social Movements and Development, Department of Political Science, Yale University. February. 1999 Adivasi Rights in the Struggle against Displacement. UGC National Seminar on Adivasi Rights to Land and Livelihood: Legal, Social and Ecological Issues, S.N.D.T. University, Mumbai. December. Conflicts over Natural Resources: A Sociological Perspective. First Biennial Conference of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. December.

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Social Stigma and Strategic Essentialism: The Uses of Indigeneity. Conference on Anthropological Understandings of the Human Rights Concept', Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. May. Invited lectures at the Department of Political Science and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale, Departments of Sociology and South Asian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, International Studies in Planning Seminar series at Cornell University. April. Invited presentation at a workshop on Sociology of Environment -- Issues of Curriculum and Pedagogy', S.N.D.T. Women's University, Mumbai. February. 1998 Environmental Movements in India: The South Speaks Back?. Workshop of the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research Eco-consciousness, Tokyo. December. Invited presentations at the South Asian Studies Program seminar series, University of Iowa, and Grinnell College. October. Written on the Body, Written on the Land: Violence and Environmental Struggles in Central India. Workshop on Violence and the Environment, Institute for International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. September. The Community and Conservation: The Case of Ecodevelopment in the Great Himalayan National Park, India. 7th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. June. Community and the Great Himalayan National Park Conference on Community and Identities: Interrogating Contemporary Discourses on India, University of Hyderabad. March. Vanishing Forests, Sacred Trees: A Hindu Perspective on Eco-consciousness. Workshop on Ecoconsciousness in the Asia-Pacific Region, University of Hong Kong. February. 1997 Cultural Conflict over Conservation: The Great Himalayan National Park in India. Plenary session of Forum '97: New Linkages in Conservation and Development, Istanbul, Turkey. November. The Narmada Movement as Tribal Liberation. Workshop on Tribal Liberation Movements and the National Struggle, Indian Social Institute, Delhi. August. Global Capital and Local Protest: Bridging the Gap. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Toronto. August.

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Environmental Conflict in the Great Himalayan National Park, University of Edinburgh. May. Claims to Knowledge, Claims to Control: Environmental Conflict in the Great Himalayan National Park, India. Workshop on Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations, University of Kent at Canterbury. May. Participating in Ecodevelopment: The Case of the Great Himalayan National Park. Workshop on The Social Construction of Community, University of Edinburgh. April.

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