Baviskar, Amita

Books

• Baviskar, Amita (2016). First Garden of the Republic: Nature on the President's Estate. New Delhi: Publications Division. , Publications Division, Govt of India
• Baviskar, Amita and Ray, Raka. (2011). Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes. New Delhi: Routledge, Routledge
• Baviskar, Amita. (ed.). (2008). Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press
• Baviskar, Amita. (2007). Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource. New Delhi: Permanent Black, Permanent Black
• Shah Ghanshyam, Mander Harsh, Thorat Sukhadeo, Baviskar, Amita and Deshpande, Satish. (2006). Untouchability in Rural India. New Delhi: Sage Publications, Sage Publications
• Baviskar, Amita. (2004). In the Belly of River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley. 2nd Edition. Delhi: Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press
• Baviskar, Amita (ed.). (2003). Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings. New Delhi: Penguin, Penguin Books
• Baviskar, Amita. (1995). In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 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. 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. (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). Food and Agriculture in Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana (eds.). Cambridge Companion to Conemporary Indian Culture. pp. 49-46. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
• Baviskar, Amita. (2012). Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience (reprint) in R Maria Saleth (ed.). From Individual to Community: Issues in Development Studies. pp. 86-101. New Delhi, Sage Publications
• 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 (reprint) in Indra Munshi (ed.). The Adivasi Question: Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood. pp. 385-406, Orient Longman and Economic and Political Weekly
• Baviskar, Amita. (2012). Indono Shutoniokeru Tairitu: Toshikeikaku to Suramu [Conflict 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, Kdiso Shobo
• 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. London, Pluto Press
• Baviskar, Amita. (2012). 'You Are What You Eat: Changing Identities and Food Practices in India'. In Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana (eds), Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Indian Culture. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
• Baviskar, Amita. (2012). 'Public Interest and Private Compromises: The Politics of Environmental Negotiation in Delhi, India' in Julia Eckert (ed), Law Against the State: Ethnographic Forays into Law's Transformation, pp. 171-201. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
• Baviskar, Amita. (2012). 'Participolis: Protest and Participation in the City'. In Karen Coelho, Lalitha Kamath and Vijaya Baskar (eds), Participolis: Consent and Contestation in Urban Governance, New Delhi, Routledge India
• 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. New Delhi, Routledge
• 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. New Delhi, Routledge
• Baviskar, Amita. (2011). 'What the Eye Does Not See: River Yamuna in the Imagination of Delhi'. Vol. 46 (50): 45-53. (Review of Urban Affairs), Economic and Political Weekly
• 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. (2011). 'Written on the Body, Written on the Land: Violence and Environmental Struggles in Central India' (reprint). In Mahesh Rangarajan and K. Sivaramakrishnan (eds), India's Environmental History: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation, pp. 517-49, New Delhi, Permanent Black
• 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). 'Spectacular Events, City Spaces and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi'. In Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Colin McFarlane (eds.), Urban South Asia. New Delhi, Routledge
• 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. '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 (Routledge: New Delhi), 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. 'You Are What you Eat: Changing Identities and Food Practices in India'. In Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana (eds.), Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Indian Culture (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge), 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. (2010). 'Urban Exclusions: Public Space and the Poor in Delhi'. In Bharati Chaturvedi (ed.), Negotiating Delhi. New Delhi, Penguin
• 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. New Delhi, Sage Publications
• Baviskar, Amita. (2009). 'Environmental History in India'. In Bharati Ray (ed.), Different Types of History. New Delhi, Pearson Educational Publishing
• Baviskar, Amita. (2009). 'Social Movements in India'. In Niraja Gopal Jayal and Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds.), Oxford Companion to Politics in India. 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. London, Zed Books
• 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. (2009). '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. London, Mute Publishing and Autonomedia
• 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. Oxford and Delhi, Blackwell Publishing and Oxford University Press
• 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). "Dillchy Suobhikaranch Bourgeois Dhch" [The Bourgeois Basis of Delhi's Beautification]. 46 (181): 97-104, Samaj Prabodhan Patrika
• 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. "Indian Indigeneities: Adivasi Engagements with Hindu Nationalism in India", in Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn (eds), Indigenous Experience Today, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2007
• Baviskar, Amita. "Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience", Review of Development and Change (Refereed) 11 (1) 2007, pp. 1-14
• Baviskar, Amita. "Demolishing Delhi: World-Class City in the Making" (reprint) in Lalit Batra (ed.) The Urban Poor in Globalising India: Dispossession and Marginalisation. South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam Publications: Delhi: 2007
• Baviskar, Amita. "The Dream Machine: The Model Development Project and the Remaking of the State", Amita Baviskar (ed.) Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource. (Delhi: Permanent Black) 2007
• Baviskar, Amita. "Demolishing Delhi: World Class City in the Making" Mute (refereed) 2(3): 88-95. 2006
• Baviskar, Amita. "The Politics of Being 'Indigenous'", Bengt G. Karlsson and Tanka B. Subba (eds.) Indigeneity in India. (London: Kegan Paul) 2006
• 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. "Rethinking Indian Environmentalism: Industrial Pollution in Delhi and Fisheries in Kerala" (with Subir Sinha and Kavita Philip) Joanne Bauer (ed.) Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood and Contested Environments. (New York: ME Sharpe) 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

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Chapter in Edited Books

• 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
• Baviskar, Amita. (2015). Regional Dimensions of Social Movements in India. India Rural Development Report 2013-14, pp. 145-161. Hyderabad
• 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

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