Anand, Dr Dibyesh
Telephone: +44 (0)207-911-5000 ext. 7601
Postal: Centre for the Study of Democracy,
University of Westminster,
32-38 Wells Street,
London, W1T 3UW
Location: room 501
Email: d.anand@wmin.ac.uk
Personal website and Blog: www.dibyesh.com and http://dibyeshanand.blogspot.com/
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Biography
Educated at the universities of Delhi, Hull and Bristol, Dibyesh Anand is a Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations. Before joining Westminster in 2007, he was a Lecturer in Department of Economics and International Development at the University of Bath. He has held visiting fellowships in several institutions including the Australian National University, University of California Berkeley, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Central University of Hyderabad.
His publications are in the areas of Global Politics, Identities, Tibet, China, Hindu Nationalism, and Security. He is the author of Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination (University of Minnesota Press, 2007; published in South Asia as Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics, Routledge India; Chinese translation forthcoming) and Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). He is currently working on a book China’s Tibet? and a research project on the Sino-Indian boundary dispute. In addition to scholarly writings, he contributes regularly to popular media including newspapers, radio, and television
Research, Media and Teaching Interests
Dibyesh’s research interests include international relations broadly defined; issues of identity and representation; state, nationalism, religion, and democracy; security; majority-minority relations; the interaction between the ‘West’ and the ‘Rest’; China and Tibet; South Asia.
He has supervised PhDs on diverse topics including the politics of recognition and redistribution in India, neopatrimonialism in Nigeria, Islamism in Britain, the role of Private Military Companies in shaping a security-development nexus, nationalism and internationalism in Indian literature, and reconceptualising Democracy Promotion agenda. He welcomes new PhD students working in politics and international relations, especially those interested in issues and approaches that challenge conventional theories and the narrow boundaries of disciplines. Questions of Identities, Politics and Borders; China and India’s emergence as global powers and its significance for other countries; Politics of Culture, Ethnicities, Security and Violence; and the West-nonWest relations are some of his preferred areas of supervision.
His media expertise includes Tibet, Kashmir, ethnic and international politics of China and India. His interviews and articles have appeared in several media including BBC TV and Radio, Sky News, PressTV, The Guardian, Associated Press, Reuters, Times of India, and so on.
In addition to ‘International Relations 1: Theoretical Perspectives’ that is essential to all Masters courses in the Department, Dibyesh is the leader for core modules constituting Master in International Relations and Global Change (‘A Postcolonial International Relations?’ and ‘Global Change: Toward a NonWestern World?’). He is also the author and leader of a module ‘Culture and International Relations’ for Freie Universitat Berlin’s International Relations Online Programme.
Dibyesh is currently the Research Director for the Department and a member of the Research, Enterprise and Knowledge Transfer Committee (REKTC) in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Languages (SSHL)
Recent Publications
Monographs
Anand, D (Forthcoming/2010) Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Anand, D. (2007) Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Borderline Series). (Republished as Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics, New Delhi: Routledge 2009; Chinese translation forthcoming)
Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Books (A Selection; for a comprehensive list of the publications, including the full-text of some of the articles, see www.dibyesh.com)
Anand, D. (2010) ‘Beyond Tibet’, in K. Knott and S McLoughlin (eds) Diasporas: Concepts, Identities, Intersections, London: Zed
Anand, D. (2009) ‘Strategic Hypocrisy: The British Imperial Scripting of Tibet’s Geopolitical Identity’, Journal of Asian Studies, 68 (1), 227-52, ISSN 0021-9118.
Anand, D. (2009) ‘Diasporic Subjectivity as an Ethical Position’, South Asia Diaspora, 1(2), 102-112, ISSN 1943-8192.
Anand, D. (2009) ‘Nationalism’, in L. J. Shepherd (ed.) Gender Matters in Global Politics, London: Routledge
Anand, D. (2009) ‘Moving beyond the blame game: China-India border relations’, East Asian Forum, Online
Anand, D. (2008) ‘Porno-Nationalism and the Male Subject: An ethnography of Hindu Nationalist Imagination in India’, in J. Parpart and M. Zalewski (eds) Rethinking the ‘Man’ Question in International Politics, London: Zed.
Anand, D. (2008) ‘Dangers of Management Speak: Politics of Crisis Management and Erasures of Histories’, in S. Eskola (ed.) Crisis Management in Crisis?, Helsinki: National Defense University, pp. 19-24, ISBN 978-951-25-1957-6.
Awards
Research Fellowship
Freilich Visiting Fellowship (Summer 2009) from Research School of Humanities and Freilich Foundation, Australian National University to write on 'Rethinking Cosmopolitanism in the face of Muslimphobia Commonsense Bigotry'.
Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002-2003.
Research and Travel Grants (recent)
British Academy Grant for a research project titled 'China's Tibet': (Inter)National Politics of Imagination, July 2010 (more).
British Association for South Asian Studies grant, ‘From Contact Zone to Conflict Zone: Geopolitics and Boundary Making in Sino-Indian relations’, 2008-09
Overseas Conference Grant and Exchange Scheme Grant by the Political Studies Association (PSA UK) to organise the panel 'Tibet in (Inter)National Politics of China: Problems of Statehood and Religion' and to present the paper 'Tibetan Buddhist Reincarnation and International Relations' at the Hong Kong Political Studies Association Conference, August 2009.
Principal Investigator in BA-AHRC-ESRC Visiting Fellowships for South Asia and the Middle East to work on a collaborative project titled ‘The Politics of Performance: the Uses of Spectacles for Political Mobilisation in Contemporary India’, 2008
British Academy (BASIS) grant (with Nitasha Kaul) for research on ‘Going beyond Roots and Routes: Multi-Racial Economy and Cultural Identities in Tanzania’, 2008
Universities China Committee in London (UCCL) Research Grants to present a paper at Beijing Tibetology Seminar in 2008 and to conduct fieldwork in Beijing and Lhasa on a project titled ‘Representing China’s Tibet: Overlapping geographies of Lhasa’ in 2006.
The British Academy Small Research Grant for research on ‘Locating sovereignty in a strange place: the Europeanisation of Sino-Tibetan relations’, 2006.
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Library Grant to conduct archival research at Oxford, European Association for Chinese Studies, 2006.
Media
Op-Eds and Newspaper Articles
Open Democracy: ‘China’s borderlands: The need to rethink’, 14 July 2009, - link (reprinted in Outlookindia as ‘Re-Imagining China’ - link)
The Guardian: ‘India’s Congress needs coalition politics’, 17 May 2009 - link
The Guardian: ‘Nepal’s democracy tested to democracy’, 4 May 2009, link (reprinted in Outlookindia as ‘Dangerous Brinkmanship’ - link)
World Today: ‘China and Tibet: Tibet Matters’, April 2009 (Vol 65, No 4), link
Indian Express: ‘Off the wall thinking’, 13 March 2009 - link
The Guardian: ‘India’s peaceful illusion has been shattered’, 27 Nov 2008, link
The Hindu: “From Tibet to China’s Tibet: Is history an ally for Tibet?”, 4 April 2008, link
Open Democracy: “Tibet, China and the West: Empires of the mind”, 2 April 2008, link
The Straits Times (Singapore): “Just ordinary aspirations”, 30 Mar 2008, link
The Indian Express: “So many ways to Tibet”, 24 Mar 2008, link
The Times of India: “Beijing’s best bet”, 21 March 2008, link
Outlook magazine: “Is China a neurotic state?”, 19 March 2008, link
The Independent: “Resentment towards Chinese migrants has boiled over”, 15 March 2008, link
Television appearances and Radio interviews
Al Jazeera and Sky News (on Mumbai terrorist attack, 2008)
BBC News, Sky News, BBC Newsnight (on protests in Tibet, 2008)
Press TV (multiple appearances on political dynasties in democracy, Sino-Russian relations, and China’s military spending, China-France relations, Ethics of political violence, 2008 on)
Islam channel (multiple appearance on Kashmir, Xinjiang, and issues related to Muslim minorities in China, India and Pakistan, 2007 on)
BBC World Service (multiple appearances), BBC Wales, Radio 2025 (link), Wisconsin Public Radio (link), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (link (on various aspects of Tibet, 2008)
BBC Radio Bristol (on Tony Blair’s legacy May 2007)
Newspaper interviews
The Time, 5 November 2009, link (on ‘Beyond India vs. China: The Dalai Lama’s Agenda’)
Associated Press, 5 November 2009, link (on China, India and the Dalai Lama’s visit to disputed Tawang)
Reuters, 1 June 2009, link (on Sino-Pakistan-India relations)
Xinhua, April 28 2009, link (on hosting Chinese Tibetologists in London)
Associated Press, 8 March 2009, link (on Chinese security in Tibet on the eve of Tibet protests anniversary)
AFP, 6 March 2009, link (on Dissent in China and Woeser)
Associated Press, 24 Feb 2009, link (on Tibetan unrest in China)
AFP, 24 November 2008, link (on the Dalai Lama and Tibet movement)
The Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese), 17 June 2008 (on the Dalai Lama)
Associated Press, several newspapers including International Herald Tribune, 1 April 2008, link (on the possibility of ‘suicide terrorism’ in Tibet)
New York Times, 31 March 2008, link (on Chinese nationalism)
McClatchy Newspapers, 26 March 2008, link (on the Dalai Lama’s leadership)
Le Soir (French), 16 March 2008, link (on Tibet protests)
Berlingske (Danish), 2 March 2008, link(on Tibet)
Ulkopolitikka-lehti (Finnish Journal of International Affairs), January 2008 (on Hindu nationalism in India)
The Bath Chronicle, May 2007
The Straits Time Singapore, September 2006 (on railway in Tibet)
Christian Science Monitor, April 2005, link (also link) (on Tibet issue)
Pacific News Service, June 2005, link (on an exhibition of Tibetan culture)
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