Sita Venkateswar
Sita Venkateswar is Director, International in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Senior Lecturer in the Social Anthropology programme at Massey University. Her ethnography Development and Ethnocide: Colonial Practices in the Andaman Islands is based on her PhD fieldwork in the Andaman Islands from 1989-1992. She has since been involved in research on child labour in Nepal and poverty and grassroots democracy in Kolkata, India. She is currently involved in exploring indigenous politics related to climate change as well as questions of displacement and belonging in relation to refugee resettlement in New Zealand and Europe.
Books by Sita Venkateswar
Politics of Indigeneity
Dialogues and Reflections on Indigenous Activism
Edited by Emma Hughes, Sita Venkateswar
Provocative and original, The Politics of Indigeneity explores the concept of indigeneity across the world–from the Americas to New Zealand, Africa to Asia–and the ways in which it intersects with local, national and international social and political realities. Taking on the role of critical interlocutors, the authors engage in extended dialogue with indigenous spokespersons and activists, as well as between each other. In doing so, they explore the possibilities of a ‘second-… (more information)