Amita Baviskar is an associate professor of sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. Her first book, In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley(Oxford University Press), discussed the struggle for survival by Adivasis in central India against a large dam. Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance, and cultural identity. More recently, she has focused on urban environmental politics, especially bourgeois environmentalism and spatial restructuring in the context of economic liberalization in Delhi. Her latest research examines changing food practices in western India in relation to the transformation of agrarian environments. Amita has taught at the University of Delhi and has been a visiting professor at Stanford, Sciences Po, Yale, and the University of California at Berkeley. She was awarded the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies and the 2010 Infosys Prize for the social sciences.