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Akhil GuptaCurriculum Vitaepage 9PublicationsBooks and Special Issues of Journals1997bAnthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (edited withJames Ferguson). Berkeley: University of California Press.1997aCulture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (edited with JamesFerguson), Duke University Press.1992Theme Issue, “Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference,” Cultural Anthropology,vol. 7, no.1 (edited with James Ferguson).

Akhil GuptaCurriculum Vitaepage 10Publications contd.Scholarly Articles2018c“Changing Forms of Corruption in India,” Modern Asian Studies (accepted forpublication).2018b“The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure,” in The Promiseof Infrastructure eds. Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel. Duke Univ.Press (under contract).2018a“Introduction: The Promise of Infrastructure” (with Hannah Appel and Nikhil Anand)in The Promise of Infrastructure eds. Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel.Duke Univ. Press (under contract).2017“Farming as a Speculative Activity: The Ecological Basis of Farmers’ Suicides inIndia,” in The Routledge Companion to Environmental Humanities eds. Ursula K.Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge, pp. 185193.2016c“On Structural Violence” in Kalpana Kannabiran ed. Violence and its Habitations inIndia. Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press.2016b“Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk,” (with Cymene Howe, et. al.),Science, Technology, & Human Values, 23/0162243915620017.full.pdf html2016a“Intimate Encounters: Affective Labor in Call Centers,” (with Purnima Mankekar),Positions, 24(1): 17-43.2015f"State, Corruption, Postcoloniality: A Conversation with Akhil Gupta on the 20thAnniversary of ‘Blurred Boundaries’" (with David Nugent and Shreyas Sreenath),American Ethnologist 42(4):581-591.2015e“Is Poverty a Global Security Threat?” in Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane eds.Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South, University of Georgia Press, pp.84-102.2015d“Editors Introduction: The Infrastructure Toolbox,” (with Hannah Appel and NikhilAnand), Theorizing the Contemporary (TtC), Cultural uspension,” Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural 2-suspension

Akhil GuptaCurriculum Vitaepage 11Publications contd.2015b“An Anthropology of Electricity from the Global South,” Cultural Anthropology30(4): 555-568.2015a“Viewing States from the Global South” in Christopher Krupa and David Nugent eds.State Theory and Andean Politics: New Approaches to the Study of Rule. Philadelphia:Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 267-277.2014“Authorship, Research Assistants, and the Ethnographic Field,” Ethnography, 15(3):394-400.2013d“Messy Bureaucracies,” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 3(3): 435-440.2013c“Structural Violence and Politics,” Economy and Society, 42 (4): 686-692.2013b“Review Forum on Akhil Gupta’s Red Tape,” Society and Space—Environment andPlanning, -on-akhil-guptas-redtape/2013a“Arbitrariness, Structural Violence, and State Theory,” Society and Space—Environment and Planning, a/2012b“A Different History of the Present: The Movement of Crops, Cuisines, andGlobalization” in Krishnendu Ray and Tulasi Srinivas eds. Curried Cultures:Globalization, Food, and South Asia. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, pp. 29-46.2012a“Interview: Anthropological Research on NGOs” (with Jennifer Curtis and JamesFerguson), PoLAR online spillover conversation, pp. loads/2012/03/NGO-Interview.pdf2011“National Poverty and Global Poverty in the Age of Neoliberalism,” Cahiers d'ÉtudesAfricaines, LI(2-3):415-426.2010c“Introduction: The State in India After Liberalization” in Gupta, Akhil and K.Sivaramakrishnan eds. The State in India after Liberalization, Routledge, pp. 1-27.2010b“Global Poverty: An Anthropological Critique,” World Social Science Report,UNESCO International Social Science Council, pp. 13-16.2010a“”Overstated” Objections,” Anthropologica, 52(1):178-182.

Akhil GuptaCurriculum Vitaepage 12Publications contd.2009“Nationale Armut, globale Armut und Neoliberalismus: eine anthropologische Kritik,”in Hubertus Büschel and Daniel Speich (Eds.): Entwicklungswelten. Globalgeschichteder Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, (Series Globalgeschichte, Volume 6, Series editors:Andreas Eckert, Sebastian Conrad, Ulrike Freitag), Frankfurt am Main, CampusVerlag, pp 113-139.2008b“Globalization and Difference: Cosmopolitanism Before the Nation-State,”Transforming Cultures, 3(2): 1-20.2008a“Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy” in Julia Paley ed. Democracy:Anthropological Perspectives. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press, pp. 167-192.2007“Une Théorie Sans Limite,” in Marie-Claude Smouts ed. La Situation Postcoloniale.Paris: Sciences Po Les Presses, pp. 218-221.2006d“Peasants and Global Environmentalism,” in The Environment in Anthropology: AReader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living eds. Nora Haenn and RichardWilk. New York: New York University Press, pp. 302-324.2006c“Movimentações globais das colheitas desde a ‘era das descobertas’ e transformaçõesdas culturas gastronómicas,” in “Portugal não é um país pequeno”: contra o‘império’ na pós-colonialidade ed. Manuela Ribeiro Sanches. Lisbon: Livros Cotovia,pp. 193-213.2006bGupta, Akhil and Aradhana Sharma. “Introduction: Rethinking Theories of the State inan Age of Globalization,” in Aradhana Sharma and Akhil Gupta eds. TheAnthropology of the State. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp. 1-42.2006a“Globalization and Postcolonial States” (with Aradhana Sharma), CurrentAnthropology, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 277-307.2005b“Narrating the State of Corruption,” in Corruption: Anthropological Perspectives eds.Dieter Haller and Cris Shore. London: Pluto Press, pp. 173-193.2005a“Narratives of corruption: Anthropological and fictional accounts of the Indian state,”Ethnography, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 5-34.2004“Imagining Nations” in A Companion to The Anthropology of Politics, eds. DavidNugent and Joan Vincent. Boston: Blackwell, pp. 267-281.2003b“Representing Rural India,” in Jackie Assayag and Veronique Benei eds. At Home inDiaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UniversityPress and Delhi: Permanent Black, pp. 77-90.

Akhil GuptaCurriculum Vitaepage 13Publications contd.2003a"The Transmission of Development: Problems of Scale and Socialization," RegionalModernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India eds. K. Sivaramakrishnanand Arun Agrawal. Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 65-74.2002d"Spatializing States: Towards an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality," (withJames Ferguson), American Ethnologist, vol. 29, no.4, pp. 981-1002.2002c“Reincarnating Immigrant Biography: On Migration and Transmigration,” inElizabeth Mudimbe-Boyi ed. Beyond Dichotomies. Albany: State Univ. of New YorkPress, pp. 169-182.2002b“Reliving Childhood? The Temporality of Childhood and Narratives ofReincarnation,” Ethnos, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 33-56.2002a“Afterword: The Homeless Self: Problems of Cultural Translation in Autobiography”(with Purnima Mankekar). In Gordon Chang, Purnima Mankekar, and Akhil Guptaeds. Caste and Outcast by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Stanford University Press, pp. 225251.2001b“Governing Population: The Integrated Child Development Services Program inIndia” in Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat eds. States of Imagination:Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State, Duke University Press, pp. 6596.2001a“History, Rule, Representation: Scattered Speculations on Of Revelation andRevolution, Volume II,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies,vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 40-46.1999“Introduction: Asian Transnationalities: Media, Markets, and Migration,” (withInderpal Grewal), Positions, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 653-666.1998“Agrarian Populism in the Development of a Modern Nation (India)” in Fred Cooperand Randall Packard eds. International Development and the Social Sciences: Essayson the History and Politics of Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press,pp. 320-344.1997b“Discipline and Practice: ‘The Field’ as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology”(with James Ferguson) in Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson eds. AnthropologicalLocations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Berkeley: University ofCalifornia Press, pp. 1-46.

Akhil GuptaCurriculum Vitaepage 14Publications contd.1997a“Culture, Power, Place: Ethnography at the End of an Era” (with James Ferguson) inAkhil Gupta and James Ferguson eds. Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in CriticalAnthropology. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 1-29.1995“Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and theImagined State,” American Ethnologist, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 375-402.1992c“The Reincarnation of Souls and the Rebirth of Commodities: Representations ofTime in “East” and “West,” Cultural Critique, pp. 187-211.1992b“Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference,” CulturalAnthropology, vol. 7, no.1 (with James Ferguson), pp. 6-23.1992a“The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription ofSpace in Late Capitalism,” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 7, no.1, pp. 63-79.1989“The Political Economy of Post-Independence India -- A Review Article,” Journal ofAsian Studies, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 787-797.1984“Revolution in Telengana, 1946-1951,” South Asia Bulletin, vol. 4, Part 1: No. 1, pp.1-26; Part 2: No. 2, pp. 22-32.1983“Attenborough’s Truth: The Politics of Gandhi,” The Threepenny Review, 15, pp. 2223.Comments and Reviews2004“The Politics of Archaeology: Ayodhya and Hindu Nationalism,” CurrentAnthropology, vol. 45, no. 2.2000Comment on “Ethnography and the Meta-Narratives of Modernity,” CurrentAnthropology, vol. 41, no.2.1999Review of James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 58, no.4:1093-95.Reprints and Translations2013“Disiplina i praktika: “pole” kak mesto, metod i lokal’nost’ v antropologii” (translatedby Sergei Sokolovskiy and Olga Povorozniuk). Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. no.6, pp.3-44.

Akhil GuptaCurriculum Vitaepage 15Publications contd.Reprints and Translations contd.2010“Beyond ‘Culture’: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference,” in Kim Fortun andMike Fortun eds. Cultural Anthropology, vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: SagePublications.2008c“Discipline and Practice: ‘The Field’ as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology”in Sanjeev Khagram and Peggy Levitt eds. The Transnational Studies Reader:Intersections and Innovations. New York: Routledge, pp. 83-103.2008b“Más allá de la “cultura”: espacio, identidad y las políticas de la diferencia,” Antípoda,no. 7.2008aGreek translation of “Beyond ‘Culture’: Space, Identity, and the Politics ofDifference.”2006c“Peasants and Global Environmentalism,” in The Environment in Anthropology: AReader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living eds. Nora Haenn and RichardWilk. New York: New York University Press, pp. 302-324.2006bChinese translation of Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a FieldScience.2006a“Beyond ‘Culture’: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference,” in AntoniusC.G.M. Robben and Jeffrey A. Sluka eds. Ethnographic Fieldwork: AnAnthropological Reader. Boston: Blackwell.2005b“Beyond ‘Culture’: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference,” in Henrietta L.Moore and Todd Sanders eds. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology.Boston: Blackwell, pp. 608-617.2005a"Spatializing States: Towards an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality," (withJames Ferguson) in Jonathan Xavier Inda ed. Anthropologies of Modernity. Boston:Blackwell, pp. 105-131.2003“The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription ofSpace in Late Capitalism,” in Setha Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga eds. TheAnthropology of Space and Place. Boston: Blackwell.2002“Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference,” (with JamesFerguson) in Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo eds. The Anthropology ofGlobalization: A Reader. Boston: Blackwell, 2002, pp. 65-80.

Akhil GuptaCurriculum Vitaepage 16Publications contd.Reprints and Translations contd.2000b“Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and theImagined State” in Zoya Hasan ed. Politics and the State in India. Thousand Oaks,CA: Sage Publications, pp. 331-378.2000a“Mais Além da “Cultura”: Espaço, Identidade e Politica da Diferença,” in Antonio A.Arantes ed. O Espaço da Diferença. Campinas, Brazil, pp. 30-49.1999“The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription ofSpace in Late Capitalism,” in Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen eds. Migration,Diasporas, and Transnationalism. Northampton, MA : Edgar Elgar.1997b“Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference,” (with JamesFerguson) in Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson eds. Culture, Power, Place:Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997, pp. 3351.1997a“The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription ofSpace in Late Capitalism,” (Revised) in Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson eds.Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Durham: DukeUniversity Press, pp. 179-199.1994“The Reincarnation of Souls and the Rebirth of Commodities: Representations ofTime in “East” and “West,” in Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace ed.Jonathan Boyarin. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1994.1986“Revolution in Telengana, 1946-1951,” Social Science Probings, vol. 3, no. 1, 1986,pp. 3-71.

Akhil GuptaCurriculum Vitaepage 17Keynotes, Plenaries, and Named Lectures2016Inaugural Lecture, “Anthropological Perspectives on Good Governance: Bureaucracyand Corruption,” Network of Bhutan Anthropologists, Thimphu, Bhutan, May 11.2015Plenary, “The Anthropology of Public Policy,” International Conference on PublicPolicy, Milan, July 1.2014Keynote, “Changing Forms of Corruption in India,” Ethnography Winter School,National University of Ireland, Maynooth, December 8.2014Keynote, “The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure,”Heidelberg Summer School 2014: Politics of Near Futures: Possibilities, Prophecies,Prognoses, Heidelberg, Germany, July 28.2013Keynote, “On Structural Violence,” at conference, “Violence and its Habitations inIndia,” Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, Nov. 28.2013Keynote, “Poverty, Structural Violence, and Bureaucracy,” Class Crits VI Conference,Southwestern School of Law, Los Angeles, November 15.2013Inaugural Lecture, “Is India Shining? Reflections on India After Globalization,” SouthAsia Research Institute (SARI), Australian National University (ANU), July 16.2013Response to panel, “Author Meets Critics: Red Tape,” panel at the AmericanAssociation of Geography (AAG) Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April 11.2013Keynote, “The Land Question in Contemporary India,” at workshop, “ContestedSpaces: Politics and Representations of Space in South Asia,” University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 30.2012Inaugural M.N. Srinivas Memorial Lecture, “An Anthropologist’s View of India afterLiberalization,” India Institute, King’s College, London, March 26.2011Keynote, “The State in India After Liberalization: The Declining Power ofBureaucracy and the Rise of Service-Sector Capitalism,” at workshop, “BureaucracyThrough South Asia,” South Asia Institute, University of Texas, Austin, September30.2011Monica Wilson seminar, “Extreme Poverty as Biopolitics,” University of Cape TownDepartment of Social Anthropology, Cape Town, South Africa, Aug. 30.2011Inaugural Lecture, “Is India Shining? Some Reflections on the Last Twenty Years,”Program in Development Studies, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, Aug. 11.

Akhil GuptaCurriculum Vitaepage 18Keynotes and Plenaries contd.2010Plenary Speaker, “Political and Cultural Expressions of Indian Democracy,” YaleUniversity, May 2.2007Keynote, “Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy,” at conference,“Democracy, Development and Civil Society in India,” The University of Melbourne,Australia, September 21.20073rd Goel Lecture, “Literacy and Democracy: Notes from Anthropological Observationsin Rural India,” Center for India and South Asia Research (CISAR), University ofBritish Columbia, Vancouver, March 15.2006Keynote, “Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy,” 34th Meeting of theIsraeli Anthropological Association, June 8.2005Keynote, “The Inscribed State: Literacy and Inequality in a Postcolonial Society,”Higher Education in the Crosshairs: Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice, PitzerCollege, Claremont, September 12.2005Keynote, “Globalization and the State,” World-Scale Ambitions? TwoInterdisciplinary Roundtables, Stanford University, April 28.2005Keynote, “’If Nothing Else, Make the Train Run on Paper’: Bureaucratic Writing asState Practice” Anthropology of the State – the State of Anthropology, First AnnualStanford CASA Conference, April 8.2004Keynote, "The State of Corruption: Official Fictions, Anthropological Accounts,”Australian Anthropological Society Annual Meeting, Sep. 28-October 1.2004Keynote, Annual Spring Symposium, "Neoliberalism in South Asia: Culture, Genderand Labor," University of Hawaii, April 15-16.2003“The State of Corruption: Official Fictions, Anthropological Accounts,” PlenarySession, “Agency, Discourses of Power, and Collective Representations,” Universityof Vienna, August 30.2003“Bodily Practices and Rebirth,” Plenary presentation at the Decennial Conference ofThe Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, Universityof Manchester, July 14-18.2003“Global Movements of Crops Since the‘Age of Discovery’ and Changing CulinaryCultures,” Sirindhorn Anthropology Lecture, Princess Maha Chakri SirindhornAnthropology Centre, Bangkok, Thailand, March 26.

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