Baviskar, Amita

Books

• Baviskar, Amita. (ed.) (2016). First Garden of the Republic: Nature on the President's Estate. New Delhi: Publications Division, Government of India. ,
• Baviskar, Amita and Ray, Raka. (eds.) (2011). Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes. New Delhi: Routledge,
• Baviskar, Amita. (ed.) (2008). Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power. New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
• Baviskar, Amita. (ed.) (2007). Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource. New Delhi: Permanent Black,
• Shah Ghanshyam, Mander Harsh, Thorat Sukhadeo, Baviskar, Amita and Deshpande, Satish. (2006). Untouchability in Rural India. New Delhi: Sage Publications
• Baviskar, Amita. (2004). In the Belly of River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley. 2nd Edition. Delhi: Oxford University Press,
• Baviskar, Amita. (ed.) (2003). Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings. New Delhi: Penguin,
• Baviskar, Amita. (1995). In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley. Delhi: Oxford University Press,

Journal Articles

• Baviskar, Amita (2019). Nation's body, river's pulse: Narratives of anti-dam politics in India. Thesis Eleven, 150(1), 26-41
• Baviskar, Amita (2018). Consumer Citizenship: Instant Noodles in India, in Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, Vol. 18(2): 1-10
• Baviskar, Amita (2018). Urban Jungles: Wilderness, Parks and their Publics in Delhi. Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 53(2): 46-54
• Baviskar, Amita (2016). Fighting for their Lives: Human Rights and Adivasis. Vol. 15. pp. 113-138, NHRC, Journal of the National Human Rights Commission
• Baviskar, Amita, Edelman, Marc, et al. (2014). Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty. (Special Issue on Global Agrarian Transformations). Journal of Peasant Studies. Vol. 41 (6). pp. 911-931, Journal of Peasant Studies
• Baviskar, Amita (2011). What the Eye Does Not See: River Yamuna in the Imagination of Delhi, in Economic and Political Weekly (Review of Urban Affairs). Vol. 46(50): 45-53
• Baviskar, Amita. (2011). 'For a Cultural Politics of Water'. In Cairo Papers in Social Sciences (special issue on 'The Burden of Resources: Oil and Water in the Gulf and the Nile Basin'), vol. 30 (4): 9-19
• Baviskar, Amita (2010). Between Reason and Resistance. Seminar. Issue 605: 82-85
• Baviskar, Amita (2010). Comment on Tania M. Li's 'Indigeneity, Capitalism and the Management of Dispossession'. Vol. 51 (3): 400-01, Current Anthropology
• Baviskar, Amita (2010). Resisting Distorted Readings. Vol. 45 (41): 78-79, Economic and Political Weekly
• Baviskar, Amita. (2010). The Unquiet Woods and Indian Environmental History in Ramachandra Guha. The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya. pp.213-221. Twentieth anniversary edition. New Delhi and Ranikhet, Permanent Black
• Baviskar, Amita. (2010). 'Extraordinary 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 (Berghahn Press: New York), forthcoming
• Baviskar, Amita and Ray, Raka. 'Introduction'. In Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray (eds.), Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes (Routledge: New Delhi), forthcoming
• Baviskar, Amita. (2010). 'The City and its Commons'. In Pooja Sood (ed.), 480c: Public Art and Space in Delhi. New Delhi, Goethe Institute
• Baviskar, Amita. 'The Unquiet Woods and Indian Environmental History'. In Ramachandra Guha's (ed.), The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya Twentieth anniversary edition (Permanent Black: New Delhi and Ranikhet), 2009
• Baviskar, Amita. (2008). "Pedagogy, Public Sociology and Politics in India: What is to be Done". Vol. 56 (3): 425-433. (refereed), Current Sociology
• Baviskar, Amita (2008). Dillichya Susobhikaranacha Bourgeois Dhacha [The Bourgeois Basis of Delhi’s Beautification], in Samaj Prabodhan Patrika. 46(181): 97-104
• Baviskar, Amita and Sundar, Nandini. (2008). "Democracy versus Economic Transformation?" Comment on Partha Chatterjee's 'Democracy and Economic Transformation in India'. 43 (46): 87-89, Economic and Political Weekly
• Baviskar, Amita. (2008). "Contract Killings: Silicosis among Adivasi Migrant Workers". 43 (25): 8-10, Economic and Political Weekly
• Baviskar, Amita (2007). Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience, in Review of Development and Change. 11(1): 1-14
• Baviskar, Amita (2006). Demolishing Delhi: World-Class City in the Making, in Mute. 2(3): 88-95
• Baviskar, Amita. "Foreword" in Ranjit Dwivedi (ed) conflict and Collective Action: The Sardar Sarovar Project in India (New Delhi and London: Routledge) 2006
• Baviskar, Amita. "Bhrattl Paryvaran va Viks yanche Snskritik Rjkran" [The Cultural Politics of Environment and Development in India] Samaj Prabodhan Patrika. 44 (176): 425-430. 2006

Media Presence

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Chapter in Edited Books

• Baviskar, Amita (2018). New Cultures of Food Studies, in Sanjay Srivastava, Janaki Abraham and Yasmeen Arif (Eds.), Critical Themes in Indian Sociology: Essays in Celebration of 50 Years of Contributions to Indian Sociology, pp. 361-374. New Delhi: Sage Publications
• Baviskar, Amita (2018). City Limits: Looking for Environment and Justice in the Urban Context, in Sharachchandra Lele et. al. (Eds.), Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity. pp. 85-97. MIT Press. 2018 (ISBN: 9780262038966)
• Baviskar, Amita. (2017). What the Eye Does Not See: The Yamuna in the Imagination of Delhi, in Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of the 21st Century City, pp. 298-313. London: Sage Publications. Reprint
• Baviskar, Amita. (2015). Regional Dimensions of Social Movements in India, in India Rural Development Report 2013-14, pp. 145-161. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan
• Baviskar, Amita (2015). Ecology and Development in India: A Field and Its Future's in Sukant K. Chaudhury (ed.) Sociology of Environment. pp. 42-55. New Delhi
• Baviskar, Amita (2014). Dreaming Big: Spectacular Events and the 'World-Class' City: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi' in Jonathan Grix (ed.), Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases. pp. 130-141. Houndsmill
• Baviskar, Amita (2013). Coda: Protest and Participation in the City, in Karen Coelho etc. (Eds.), Participolis: Consent and Contention in Neoliberal India, pp. 306-9. New Delhi: Routledge
• Baviskar, Amita. (2012). 'Public Interest and Private Compromises: The Politics of Environmental Negotiation in Delhi, India' in Julia Eckert et al. (Eds.) Law Against the State: Ethnographic Forays into Law's Transformation, pp. 171-201. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Baviskar, Amita (2012). Extraordinary 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, pp. 126-44. New York: Berghahn Books
• Baviskar, Amita (2012). Food and Agriculture, in Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana (Eds.), Cambridge Companion to Conemporary Indian Culture. pp. 49-66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Baviskar, Amita (2012). Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience, in R. Maria Saleth (Ed.), From Individual to Community: Issues in Development Studies, pp. 86-101. New Delhi: Sage Publications. Reprint
• Baviskar, Amita (2012). India's Changing Political Economy and its Implicaitons for Forest Users, in Rights and Resources Initiative (Ed.) Deeper Roots of Historical Injustice: Trends and Challenges in the Forests of India, pp. 33-46. Washington, DC: Rights and Resources Initiative
• Baviskar, Amita (2012). Fate of the Forest: Conservation and Tribal Rights, in Indra Munshi (Ed.), The Adivasi Question: Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood, pp. 385-406. Orient Longman and Economic and Political Weekly. Reprint
• Baviskar, Amita (2012). Indono shutoniokeru tairitu: toshikeikaku to suramu [Conflicts in the Capital of India: Urban Planning and Slums], in Haruka Yanagisawa and Yosiko Kurita (Eds.), Ajia, Chuto: kyodotai, kankyo, gendaino hinkon [Asia and Middle East: Community, Environment and Contemporary Poverty]. Tokyo: Keiso Shobo
• Baviskar, Amita (2011). Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: Bourgeois Environmentalism and the Battle for Delhi's 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
• Baviskar, Amita (2011). Written on the Body, Written on the Land: Violence and Environmental Struggles in Central India, in Mahesh Rangarajan and K. Sivaramakrishnan (Eds.), India's Environmental History: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation, pp. 517-49. New Delhi: Permanent Black. Reprint
• Baviskar, Amita and Ray, Raka (2011). 'Introduction', in Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray (Eds.), Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes, pp. 1-23. New Delhi: Routledge
• Baviskar, Amita (2010). Spectacular Events, City Spaces and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi, in Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Colin McFarlane (Eds.), Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia, pp. 138-161. New Delhi: Routledge
• Baviskar, Amita (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
• Baviskar, Amita (2009). 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
• Baviskar, Amita (2009). 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
• Baviskar, Amita (2009). 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
• Baviskar, Amita (2009). Demolishing Delhi: World-Class City in the Making, 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. Reprint
• Baviskar, Amita (2009). Environmental History in India, in Bharati Ray (Ed.), Different Types of History, pp. 147-62. New Delhi: Pearson Educational Publishing
• Baviskar, Amita (2008). 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
• Baviskar, Amita (2007). 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
• Baviskar, Amita (2007). The Dream Machine: The Model Development Project and the Remaking of the State, in K. Chopra and C.H. Hanumantha Rao (Eds.), Growth, Equity, Environment and Population: Economic and Sociological Perspectives, pp. 287-310. New Delhi: Sage Publications. Reprint
• Baviskar, Amita (2007). 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
• Baviskar, Amita (2007). Demolishing Delhi: World-Class City in the Making, 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. Reprint
• Baviskar, Amita (2006). The Politics of Being 'Indigenous', in Bengt G. Karlsson and Tanka B. Subba (Eds.), Indigeneity in India. London: Kegan Paul
• Baviskar, Amita (2006). 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

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