Amita baviskar biography
Amita baviskar biography
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Amita Baviskar
Indian Academic
Amita Baviskar is a sociologist and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology & Anthropology at Ashoka University, India.
Previously, she was Professor at the Sociology Unit, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India.[1] She received the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research and, in 2010, was awarded the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences – Sociology in recognition of her analysis of social and environmental movements in modern India.[2] Baviskar studies the cultural politics of environment and development in rural and urban India.[1]
Education
Baviskar completed a BA in economics from the University of Delhi in 1986, MA in sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi in 1988, and PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University in 1992.[3]
Academic career
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