Amita Baviskar

Amita Baviskar is based at the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of the environment and development. Her first book, In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley, discussed the struggle for survival by indigenous groups in central India against the building of a large dam. Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and cultural identity. She has edited Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings, Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource and Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power. She is currently writing about bourgeois environmentalism and spatial restructuring in the context of economic liberalisation in Delhi.