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'''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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iegindia.org/staffmembers/faculty/detail/3541/3|title=Baviskar, Amita {{!}} Institute of Economic Growth|website=www.iegindia.org|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2010/amita-baviskar.asp|title=Infosys Prize – Laureates 2010 – Prof. Amita Baviskar|website=www.infosys-science-foundation.com|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref> Baviskar studies the cultural politics of environment and development in rural and urban India.<ref name=":0" />

== 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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iegindia.org/upload/employee/280918_201219baviskar%20cv%20june%202018.pdf|website=www.iegindia.org|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref>

== Academic career ==
Baviskar has taught at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics [[University of Delhi]], as a lecturer and reader, between 1994 and 2003, and at the Sociology Unit, Institute of Economic Growth as an associate professor between 2006 and 2016, and as Professor since 2016.<ref name=":1" /> Since 2020, she has been the Head of Department for Environmental Studies at Ashoka University, Delhi.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

Baviskar has been a visiting scholar at [[Stanford University]], [[Cornell University]], [[Yale University]], [[SciencesPo]] and the [[University of California at Berkeley]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/events/industrial-foods-and-cultural-identities-india|title=Industrial Foods and Cultural Identities in India {{!}} Oxford Department of International Development|website=www.qeh.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref> She has also been a visiting fellow at the [[University of Cape Town]], [[University of Michigan, Ann Arbor]] and the [[Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development]], [[Somerville College]], [[University of Oxford]].<ref name=":1" />

Baviskar is a member of the Editorial Collective of the ''[https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjps20/current Journal of Peasant Studies]'', and the Editorial Team of the Review of Urban Studies, ''[https://www.epw.in/ Economic and Political Weekly]''. She serves on the boards of several academic journals and institutions. During 2010–12, she was a member of the Forest Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. She also served on the Social Sciences jury for the [[Infosys Prize]] in 2017 and 2019.

== Selected publications ==
* Baviskar, Amita (2021). 'Street food and the art of survival: migrants and places in Delhi, India' in ''Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research''. 24 (1).
* Baviskar, Amita (2020). "Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity And The Commons In Delhi". Delhi: Sage Publications
* Baviskar, Amita (2018). 'Consumer Citizenship: Instant Noodles in India' in ''Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies''. 18 (2): 1–10.
* Baviskar, Amita (2018). 'Urban Jungles: Wilderness, Parks and their Publics in Delhi' in ''Economic and Political Weekly''. 53 (2): 46–54.
* Baviskar, Amita (2017). ''What the Eye Does Not See: The Yamuna in the Imagination of Delhi.'' In Hall, Suzanne; Burdett, Ricky eds. (2017). ''The Sage Handbook of the 21st Century City.'' pp. 298–313. London: Sage Publications (reprint).
* Baviskar, Amita (2016). ''First Garden of the Republic: Nature on the President's Estate''. New Delhi: Publications Division, Government of India.
* Baviskar, Amita; Ray, Raka (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 (2007). ''Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource''. New Delhi: Permanent Black.
* Shah, Ghanshyam; Mander, Harsh; Thorat, Sukhadeo; Baviskar, Amita; 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''. second ed. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
* Baviskar, Amita ed. (2003). ''Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings''. New Delhi: Penguin Books. {{ISBN|9780143030386}}.
* Baviskar, Amita (1995). ''In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley''. Delhi: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780195671360}}.

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