| Angana P. Chatterji is associate professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Her work integrates scholarship, research, teaching, and advocacy in linking the roles of citizen and intellectual. An advocate for social justice, Professor Chatterji has been working with postcolonial social movements, local communities, institutions and citizens groups, and government and donor agencies in India and internationally, since 1984, toward enabling participatory democracy.
Professor Chatterji's work focuses on India and South Asia, and her perspectives have been defined by a lifetime of learning, along with work in the United States. Her work focuses on issues of development, globalization, and cultural survival; land rights and public policy; biopolitical governance and identity politics; nationalisms, self-determination, and gendered violence. She has been working with policy and advocacy research connected to public lands reform in India. Her work in this arena addresses issues of indigenous land rights and community governance and grassroots resistance as mediated by class, ethnicity and religion, and migration, displacement and statelessness. Using critical, interdisciplinary frameworks she has been involved in developing participatory, feminist and advocacy research methodologies, and policy analysis mechanisms.
She is currently working on mapping the intersections of majoritarian nationalism and social and gendered violence in Orissa, India, and on issues of militarization, gendered, violence, and self-determination in Indian-administered Kashmir. She also works with issues of hyper-nationalism, diaspora, and identity politics in the United States.
Professor Chatterji worked with policy and advocacy research from 1989-97, including with the Indian Social Institute and Planning Commission of India, before joining the faculty at CIIS in 1997. Professor Chatterji also served as the Director of Research, Asia Forest Network, initially housed at the University of California, Berkeley, and was involved in coordinating Network groups in member countries in South and Southeast Asia. She has served on human rights commissions and tribunals, conducted workshops and lectured at various universities and organizations in the United States, and internationally. Presently Professor Chatterji is co-convener of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Following September 11, 2001, she convened the Dialogues for Peace at CIIS. She also works with social justice groups such as the Coalition Against Communalism, Coalition Against Genocide, and the Campaign To Stop Funding Hate. She serves on the board of directors of the Vasundhara, and the advisory board of the Network of Indian Environmental Professionals, Green Institute, and World Prout Assembly, and the editorial boards of academic journals. She has also served on the board of the International Rivers Network, Earth Island Institute, and Community Forestry International, and the advisory board of Sustainable Alternatives to the Global Economy.
Professor Chatterji holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Political Science, and a Ph.D. in the Humanities with a focus in Development Studies and Social and Cultural Anthropology, and is multilingual. A guest editor for a special issue of Cultural Dynamics, a Sage Journal, entitled, 'Gendered Violence in South Asia: Nation and Community in The Postcolonial Present' (2004, Volume 16, 2/3), her publications include various research monographs, reports, and books, including Community Forest Management in Arabari: Understanding Socioeconomic and Subsistence Issues (1996), two forthcoming books, Land and Justice: The Struggle for Cultural Survival (Orient Longman, 2008), Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present (Three Essays Collective, 2008), and a co-edited volume, Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia. Notes on the Postcolonial Present (Kali for Women/Zubaan Books, 2008).
Professor Chatterji lives and works both in India and the Bay Area. She draws on cross-disciplinary frameworks in teaching, spanning issues of colonization, postcoloniality, human rights, and international relations. Her intellectual interests include issues of power and identity; feminist, postcolonial, poststructural, and Marxist critique; genealogy, archaeology, and historiography. She draws on various disciplines in her work including anthropology, politics, history, and philosophy, and Cultural and Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial and Development Studies, and South Asia Studies. She has worked in association with and received support, including scholarships and research awards, for her work from various agencies and institutions, including the Planning Commission of India, Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development, Ford Foundation, Wallace Global Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, SwedForest, Marra Foundation, and Center for Southeast Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS, RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS (selected):
Chatterji, Angana P. (forthcoming 2008). Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present. Narratives from Orissa. New Delhi: Three Essays Collective Press.
Chatterji, Angana P. (forthcoming 2008). Land and Justice: The Struggle for Cultural Survival in Orissa. New Delhi: Orient Longman.
Chatterji, Angana P. & Lubna Nazir Chaudhry (Eds.) (forthcoming 2008). Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia. Notes on the Postcolonial Present. New Delhi: Zubaan Books/Kali for Women.
Chatterji, Angana P. & Shabnam Hashmi (Eds.) (2005). Dark Leaves of the Present. New Delhi: Anhad.
Poffenberger, Mark, Angana P. Chatterji & Alison Schwarz (Eds.) (1997) Participatory Inventorying, Planning and Monitoring Tools for Joint Forest Management. Berkeley: Asia Forest Network.
Chatterji, Angana P. (1996) Community Forest Management in Arabari: Understanding Socioeconomic and Subsistence Issues. New Delhi: Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development and Ford Foundation. (Bengali translation by author published by the Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development, New Delhi.)
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND TRIBUNAL REPORTS:
Chatterji, Angana P. & Mihir Desai (Eds.) (2006). Communalism in Orissa (Report of the Indian People's Tribunal). Mumbai: Indian People's Tribunal.
Chatterji, Angana P. & Harsh Mander (2004). Without Land or Livelihood. The Indira Sagar Dam: State Accountability and Rehabilitation Issues. (Report of the Independent People's Commission). New Delhi: Center for Equity Studies.
JOURNAL ISSUE:
Chatterji, Angana P. & Lubna Nazir Chaudhry (Guest Editors) (2004) Gendered Violence in South Asia: Nation and Community in the Postcolonial Present, Cultural Dynamics: Theory Cross-Cultures 16 (2/3): 122-373, Special double issue. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
ASSISTANCE WITH BOOK PROJECT:
Fernandes, Walter, assisted by Sandhya Singh and Angana Chatterji (1990) Women's Status in the Delhi Bastis: Urbanization, Economic Forces, and Voluntary Organizations. A report of a study of ten slums, New Delhi: Indian Social Institute.
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND RESEARCH REPORTS (selected):
Chatterji, Angana P. (forthcoming 2007) 'Memory-Mournings: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism', Angana P. Chatterji, & Lubna Nazir Chaudhry, (Eds.) (forthcoming 2008). Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia, Notes on the Postcolonial Present. New Delhi: Zubaan Books/Kali for Women, 70 pages.
Chatterji, Angana P. and Richard Shapiro (forthcoming 2008). 'Knowledge-Making as Intervention: The Academy and Social Change.' In Bryant, B. (Ed.) A collection on environmental justice and human rights. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 23 pages.
Chatterji, Angana P. (2006). 'Community/State Interactions in Forest Governance.' In Smitu Kothari (Ed.) Seeds of Hope. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 20 pages.
Chatterji, Angana P. (2005). 'Gendered Violence in Hindu Nationalism.' In Angana P. Chatterji & Shabnam Hashmi (Eds.) Dark Leaves of the Present. New Delhi: Anhad, pp. 53-70.
Chatterji, Angana P. (2004) 'The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism: Mournings', in Angana P. Chatterji, & Lubna Nazir Chaudhry (Eds.) Gendered Violence in South Asia: Nation and Community in the Postcolonial Present, Cultural Dynamics: Theory Cross-Cultures 16 (2/3): 319-72, Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications.
Banerjee, Sukanya, Angana P. Chatterji, Lubna Nazir Chaudhry, Manali Desai, Saadia Toor, Kamala Visweswaran (2004) 'Engendering Violence: Boundaries, Histories, and the Everyday', in Angana P. Chatterji & Lubna Nazir Chaudhry (Eds.) Gendered Violence in South Asia: Nation and Community in the Postcolonial Present, Cultural Dynamics: Theory Cross-Cultures 16 (2/3): 125-39, Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications.
Chatterji, Angana P. (2001). A Critique of Forest Governance in Eastern India. International Journal for Economic Development 3(2) Online Journal. Retrieved on November 29, 2005 from Http://www.spaef.com/IJED_PUB/3_2/3_2_chatterji.html .
Chatterji, Angana P. (2001). Postcolonial Research as Relevant Practice (Postmodern Research Methods Forum). TAMARA: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science. 1(3): 1-13.
Chatterji, Angana P. (1998) Toward An Ecology of Hope. Community and Joint Forest Management: Initiatives, Conflicts, Alliances in Public Lands Use, Access and Reform. Research report. Sweden: Scandisconsult Natura AB., and Berkeley: Asia Forest Network.
Poffenberger, Mark & Angana P. Chatterji (1997) Multilevel Interface Within Joint Forest Management in India: Assessing Priority Shifts Among Donor Agencies, Forest Departments and Local Communities. Research report. Berkeley: Asia Forest Network.
Chatterji, Angana P. (1990) Participatory Natural Resource Management. Wastelands News. New Delhi: Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development.
Chatterji, Angana P. (1990) Gender and Development: Women in Search of Human Equality. Social Action. New Delhi: Indian Social Institute, 46-56.
Links:
Angana Chatterji's work with the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Disquiet Ghosts: Mass Graves in Indian Kashmir (Op-ed) Etala'at [Srinagar] Daily Newspaper, July 09, 2008.
Angana Chatterji's Statement to the Orissa Judicial Inquiry Commission
Kandhamal: Hindutva's Terror, Cover story, Communalism Combat, Human Rights Magazine, 127. Reprinted in Znet, January 2008.
Kandhamal riots: Vandals in Orissa (Op-ed). Asian Age [New Delhi] Daily newspaper. Reprinted in Znet, January 10.
Report of the People's Tribunal on Communalism in Orissa:
Campaign To Stop Funding Hate The Foreign Exchange of Hate: IDRF and the American Funding of Hindutva. Paris and Mumbai: The South Asia Citizens Web and Sabrang Communications & Publishing Private Limited. Research report.
Don't Damn Narmada. Op-ed, first published in Asian Age, April 14, 2006.
Xenophobes
Xeroxed. Editorial, Combat
Law, Vol. 5, Issue 1, February-March
2006.
Now,
Hindu Nationalists Rewriting California
Textbooks. Op-ed, first
published India-West, January 6,
2006, A4-A6.
Angana Chatterji's work with the Indian
People's Tribunal:
Communalism Watch
Letter to the National Human Rights Commission
San Francisco Chronicle
Human Rights Watch
The Hindu (online version of India ’s national newspaper)
Becoming in Diaspora, Editorial, first published in SAMAR Magazine, July 2005
Narmada:
Where Terror and Hope Collide.
Op-ed first published in Asian Age,
New Delhi, April 23, 2005.
How
we made US deny visa to Modi. Op-ed
related to the Gujarat genocide, first published
in the Asian Age, March 21, 2005.
Genocide in Gujarat: The Sangh Parivar,
Narendra Modi, and the Government of Gujarat.
A report prepared by Angana Chatterji, Lise
McKean, and Abha Sur for the Coalition Against
Genocide, March 2, 2005. Available at: www.sacw.net.
Justice Needed at Indira Sagar
Op-ed, FIRST published in the Asian Age, September 19, 2005.
Talking
Tsunami: To Dissent This Time by
Angana Chatterji and Richard Shapiro. Published
in the Journal of Politics and Culture,
2005, Issue 2, Special Issue: The Politics
of Disaster.
State
Tyranny in Orissa. This opinion
piece was published in Humanscape
in January 2005.
The
Narmada Gave Us Life; They Have Turned Her
Against Us. Interview with Robert
Jensen, published in Counterpunch,
September 21, 2004.
India:
Harsud Lost. Op-ed, first published
in Asian Age, August 18, 2004.
Angana
Chatterji holds a three day fast in front
of the World Bank in April 2004.
Anthropology
and Cultural Survival. Published
in Anthropology
News 45(3), American Anthropological
Association, March 2004.
Hindu
Nationalism and Orissa: Minorities as Other.
First published in Communalism Combat,
Human Rights Magazine, Mumbai, March
2004; Issue 96.
Learning
in Saffron: RSS Schools in Orissa,
published in Dissident Voice, 11/13/03.
First published in Asian Age, Daily
Newspaper, New Delhi, November 11, 2003.
Orissa:
A Gujarat in the Making. First published
in Communalism Combat, Human Rights Magazine,
Mumbai, October 2003; Issue 92.
State
Repression in the Narmada Valley,
published in Dissident Voice, 8/21/03.
First published in The Asian Age,
daily newspaper, New Delhi, 8/20/03.
Orwellian
Fantasy. First published in the
Daily Times, Daily Newspaper, Lahore, July
10, 2003.
Women,
Globalization, India, Dialogues for Peace.
An interview with Angana Chatterji.
June 2003. Audio.
Under
Siege in the Narmada Valley, published
in Dissident Voice, 5/27/03. First
published in The Asian Age, daily
newspaper, New Delhi, 5/26/03.
Liberation
at Gunpoint, published in Dissident
Voice, 5/6/03. First published in The
Daily Times, daily newspaper, Lahore,
5/6/03.
As
The Drums Roll For War, published
in Dissident Voice, 3/22/03. First
published in The Daily Times, daily
newspaper, Lahore, 3/ 21/03.
Myths
and Dreams: Hindutva Nationalism and the
Indian Diaspora, op-ed, Asian
Age, Daily Newspaper, New Delhi, 3/9/03.
This
Is No Time For War, published in
Dissident Voice, 2/4/03.
Gujarat:
A Call for Kristallnacht?, published
in Dissident Voice, 12/22/02.
Unholy
Alliance: The India Development Relief Fund
and Hindutva, published in Dissident
Voice, 12/5/02.
Editorial,
For Dissent Against Hindu Extremism,
published in Dissident Voice, 7/02.
Angana
Chatterji's article on the India-Pakistan
conflict published in Dissident Voice,
5/02.
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and Cultural Anthropology Program
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