Anand, 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
NB: Between June-early September 2009 Dr Anand is at ANU Canberra; he can be contacted there on 00-61-61-41923240
Educated at the universities of Delhi, Hull and Bristol, Dibyesh Anand is Reader Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations at CSD.
His 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, West Asia, and issues and projects that challenge the narrow boundaries of ‘area studies'; and interdisciplinary understanding of topical issues. His media expertise includes Tibet, Kashmir, ethnic and international politics of China and India.
Publications include
Single-authored books:Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination (Borderlines Series of University of Minnesota Press 2007 - to order from Amazon click here); Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics (Routledge-India 2008); and Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear (Palgrave-Macmillan Forthcoming);
Articles in: British Journal of Politics and International Relations; New Political Science; The Roundtable: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs; Against all Reason: Propaganda, Politics, Power; Diaspora: a Journal of Transnational Studies; Anglo-Saxonica; Contemporary South Asia, and Journal of Asian Studies.
Chapters in edited volumes including in L. J. Shepherd (ed.) Gender Matters in Global Politics (2009); K. Knott and S McLoughlin (eds) Diasporas: Concepts, Identities, Intersections (2010); J. Parpart and M. Zalewski (eds), Rethinking the ‘Man’ Question in International Politics(2008); in P. C. Klieger (ed) Tibetan Borderlands (2006); in B. Sautman and J. T. Dreyer (eds), Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region (2006); in G. Chowdhry and S. Nair (eds), Power, Postcolonialism, and International Relations: Reading Race, Gender and Class (2002); and in P. C. Klieger (ed.), Tibet, Self, and the Tibetan Diaspora: Voices of Difference (2002).
as Consultant Editor, OUP’s Atlas of the World (2005, 2008)
Most recent publications
Anand, D. (2007) Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Borderline Series). ISBN 0-8166-4765-8, 0-8166-4766-6.
Anand, D (2008) Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming June. ISBN 0-230-60385-8.
Anand, D. (2008) Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics, New Delhi: Routledge.
Media Expertise
Tibet, Kashmir, Ethnic and International Politics of China and India
Op-Eds and Newspaper Articles:
The Independent: “Resentment towards Chinese migrants has boiled over”, 15 March 2008
Outlook magazine: “Is China a neurotic state?”, 19 March 2008
The Times of India: “Beijing’s best bet”, 21 March 2008
The Indian Express: “So many ways to Tibet”, 24 Mar 2008
The Straits Times (Singapore): “Just ordinary aspirations”, 30 Mar 2008
Open Democracy: “Tibet, China and the West: Empires of the mind”, 2 April 2008
The Hindu: “From Tibet to China’s Tibet: Is history an ally for Tibet?”, 4 April 2008
Television studio appearances and Radio interviews
BBC News, Sky News, BBC Newsnight (on protests in Tibet, 2008)
BBC World Service (multiple appearances), BBC Wales, Radio 2025
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (on various aspects of Tibet, 2008)
Press TV (multiple appearances on political dynasties in democracy, Sino-Russian relations, and China’s military spending, 2008)
Islam channel (on Kashmir, Xinjiang, and issues related to Muslim minorities in China, India and Pakistan, 2007 on)
BBC Radio Bristol (on Tony Blair’s legacy May 2007)
Newspaper interviews
The Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese), 17 June 2008 (on the Dalai Lama)Associated Press, several newspapers including International Herald Tribune, 1 April 2008, (on the possibility of ‘suicide terrorism’ in Tibet)New York Times, 31 March 2008, (on Chinese nationalism)
McClatchy Newspapers, 26 March 2008, (on the Dalai Lama’s leadership)
Le Soir (French), 16 March 2008, (on Tibet protests)
Berlingske (Danish), 2 March 2008, (on Tibet)
The Bath Chronicle, May 2007
The Straits Time Singapore, September 2006 (on railway in Tibet)
Christian Science Monitor, April 2005, (also http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0411/p07s01-wosc.html) (on Tibet issue)
Pacific News Service, June 2005, (on an exhibition of Tibetan culture)
AWARDS
Research Fellowship
May 2008
Dr Dibyesh Anand has been awarded a 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'.
Summary of the research: While psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, philosophy and social psychology remind us of the centrality of Self-Other dynamic in our lives as socio-political beings, it does not offer a simple answer to how the Other is mobilised for the Self's identity. If bigotry becomes a commonsense and there are political actors who create, encourage, and scavenge upon it, how can we imagine a cosmopolitanism and enact an ethico-politics that eschews claims to universality and remains contextually grounded? These are the concerns that will drive my project.
Spring 2008
Beatrice M. Bain Affiliated Scholar, University of California Berkeley
Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002-2003.
Research Grants
September: British Association for South Asian Studies grant, “From Contact Zone to Conflict Zone: Geopolitics and Boundary Making in Sino-Indian relations”, 2008-09
March 2008: Dr Dibyesh Anand has received an award under the joint British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council Visiting Fellowship scheme for South Asia and the Middle East. The award of approximately £15K allows him to facilitate visit of Dr Arjun Ghosh (Delhi University) to work on a collaborative project titled "The Politics of Performance: the Uses of Spectacles for Political Mobilisation in Contemporary India".
Read the research proposal summary here
20 Feb 2008: Dibyesh Anand and Nitasha Kaul have secured a British Academy grant for researching on 'Going beyond Roots and Routes: Multi-Racial Economy and Cultural Identities in Tanzania' as part of the Cambridge University led 'Changing Global Geographies of Power and Development: Contemporary Indian – East African Relations' project
The British Academy Small Research Grant for research on “Locating sovereignty in a strange place: the Europeanisation of Sino-Tibetan relations”, 2006.
Universities China Committee in London (UCCL) Research Grant to conduct fieldwork in Beijing and Lhasa on a project titled “Representing China’s Tibet: Overlapping geographies of Lhasa” and to collaborate with Central University of Nationalities and Sichuan University in China, 2006.
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Library Grant to conduct archival research at Oxford, European Association for Chinese Studies, 2006. ESRC Research Training Bursary, 2005-06.
Centre for Public Economics pump-priming grant, 2005-06.
The British International Studies Association Research Award, 2001.
The Society for South Asian Studies, The British Academy, 2000.
Scholarships
University of Bristol Postgraduate Scholarship and the Overseas Research Scholarship for Ph.D., UK, 1998-2001.
British Chevening Scholarship for MA, UK, 1997-98.
National Talent Scholarship, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Government of India, 1992-97.
Travel Grants
March 2009: 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.
British Academy Overseas Conference Grant, 2007.
International Studies Association, 2007.
University of Bath Staff Development Unit Financial Assistance for Continuing Professional Development, 2005-06.
British Academy Overseas Conference Grant, March 2005.
International Studies Association, February 2001.
Politics and Arts (POLARTS) Standing Groups, ECPR, November 2000.
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Research Group, Ontario, October 2000.
Alumni Foundation, University of Bristol, August 2000.
PSA Hardship fund, April 2000.
Knowlson Trust, August 1999.
Cambridge Commonwealth Trust/ Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, June 1998.
Prizes and Fellowships
TGP Spear Memorial History Scholarship; Andrews Memorial Prize; Westcott Memorial History Prize; Prem Nath Bhalla Memorial Merit Prize; Shankar Lal History Medal. St Stephen’s College (University of Delhi), 1997.
Swami Vivekananda Chicago Lectures Centenary Prize, St Stephen’s College (University of Delhi), 1996.
Vikalpa Fellowship, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India for social work in rural areas of Orissa, 1995.
Teaching Award
Nominated for University of Bath’s Mary Tasker Award for excellence in teaching (2006). The Awards Committee made a special commendation for ‘dedication to teaching and pastoral support, interactive approach to teaching and commitment to an on-going process of exploration and development’.
Current PhD Supervision and Postdoctoral Mentoring
I Basu ‘Citizenship, Politics of Recognition, and Tribal Movements in India’ (Bath)
C Willott ‘Neopatrimonialism and Nigeria’ (co-supervised with J Devine, ESRC funded, Bath)
D Genovese ‘British Islamism and the Politics of Purity’ (co-supervised with J Keane, Westminster)
M Telatin ‘Challenging the Marketisation of Development-Security Nexus’ (Westminster)
T Mesbahuddin, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow (Mentor, Westminster)
Current Teaching Scholarships
2008-09
‘International Relations: Theoretical Perspectives’ (postgraduate), ‘Theories of IR’ (undergraduate)
2007-08
‘International Relations: Theoretical Perspectives’ (postgraduate), ‘International Security’ (postgraduate), ‘International Security Studies’ (undergraduate), ‘Research Methods Training’ (postgraduate)
Supervision of dissertations and personal tutoring
Invited Lectures
‘Tibet in International Politics’, Asia Centre, Harvard University, April 2008.
‘Desire and disgust as tools for political mobilization: Imagining the sexualized Muslim's masculinity', Gender Consortium, University of California Berkeley, April 2008.
‘Modern Tibet: A victim of Geopolitics’, India International Centre, New Delhi, January 2008
‘The Rise of China and India Thesis: Problems and Prospects’, EU-Asia Research Network, University of Helsinki, November 2007.
‘Tibet as an International Issue: The role of the West’, Bath United Nations Association, May 2007.
'Empire and Terror' , Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, February 2007.
‘British India and Tibet: Images and Realities’, Sichuan University, October 2006.
‘Strategic Hypocrisy: British Imperialism and Tibet’, Central University of Nationalities, Beijing, October 2006.
‘Tibetan Diaspora: Questions of Sovereignty, Dislocation and Identity’, at the Asia Unit in The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2006.
‘Terrorism and Democracy’, Jammu and Kashmir University, Srinagar, September 2004.
‘Multiculturalism: the UK experience’, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, August 2004.
‘Western imaginations and Eastern realities: notes on contemporary global politics’, Visvabharati University, Shantiniketan, August 2004.
‘India-Pakistan conflict and Kashmir’, at An Introduction to World Politics Course for Ministry of Defence Officials, Centre for Continuing Education, University of Bristol, March 2002.
Membership of Professional Bodies
Executive Committee, British Association for South Asian Studies, 2006 On; 1999-2002
International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2000 On.
International Studies Association, 1999 On.
British International Studies Association, 1998 On.
European Association for Chinese Studies, 2006 On
European Association for South Asian Studies, 2006 On
Development Studies Association 2004-05.
Secretary and President, Social Service League, St Stephen’s College, 1995-97.
Publications
Single Authored Books
Anand, D. (2007) Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (Borderline Series). ISBN 0-8166-4765-8, 0-8166-4766-6.
Anand, D (2008) Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming June. ISBN 0-230-60385-8.
Anand, D. (2008) Poetics and Politics of Western Imagination, New Delhi: Routledge, Forthcoming.
Journal Articles
Anand, D. (Forthcoming) ‘Strategic Hypocrisy: The British Imperial Scripting of Tibet’s Geopolitical Identity’, Journal of Asian Studies.
Anand, D. (2007) ‘Gendered anxieties: Representing Muslim masculinity as a danger’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 9 (2), 257-269, ISSN 1369-1481.
Anand, D. (2007) ‘Western representations of the Other: The case of Exotica Tibet’, New political science, 29 (1), 23-42, ISSN 0739-3148.
Anand, D. (2005) ‘Violence of security: Hindutva in India’, The Roundtable: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 94 (379), 201-213, ISSN 0035-8533.
Anand, D. (2004) ‘Reporting the capture of Saddam Hussein: “Let there be light’ in Iraq’, Against all reason: propaganda, politics, power, Volume 2, pp. 25-30. ISSN 1741-0754. Online http://www.human-nature.com/reason/02/saddam.html
Anand, D. (2003) ‘Travel-routing diaspora… Homing on Tibet’, Diaspora: a Journal of Transnational Studies, 12 (3), 211-229, ISSN 1044-2057.
Anand, D. (2003) ‘Reading the Tibetan diaspora: ‘culture’ and ‘nation’ as strategic construct’, Anglo-Saxonica, Series II, number 19, pp. 77-92, ISSN 0873-0628.
Anand, D. (2000) ‘(Re)Imagining Nationalism: Identity and Representation in Tibetan Diaspora in South Asia’, Contemporary South Asia, 9 (3), 271-287, ISSN 09584935
Chapters in Edited Collections & Book reviews
Chapters in Edited Collections
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, Forthcoming.
Anand, D. (Forthcoming) ‘Challenging “Tibetan exceptionalism”: Exotica Tibet as an orientalist construct’, in C. McGranahan and S. Schneiden (eds) Tibetan Identities, Past and Present, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.
Anand, D. (2006) ‘Archive and the poetics of ‘Exotica Tibet’, in P. C. Klieger (ed) Tibetan Borderlands, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 29-66, ISBN 9004154825.
Anand, D. (2006) ‘The West and the Tibetan issue’, in B. Sautman and J. T. Dreyer (eds), Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region, Armonk: ME Sharpe, pp. 285-304, ISBN 0765613549.
Consultant Editor (2005) Atlas of the World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195220455.
Anand, D. (2004) “Introduction” to Philip’s Guide to the State of the World, London: Philip’s Maps, ISBN 0540085782.
Anand, D. (2002) ‘A story to be told: IR, postcolonialism, and the Tibetan (trans)nationalism’, in G. Chowdhry and S. Nair (eds), Power, Postcolonialism, and International Relations: Reading Race, Gender and Class, London: Routledge, pp. 209-24, ISBN 0415271606.
Anand, D. (2002) ‘A Guide to Little Lhasa in India: the role of symbolic geography of Dharamsala in constituting Tibetan diasporic identity’, in P. C. Klieger (ed.), Tibet, Self, and the Tibetan Diaspora: Voices of Difference, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 11-36, ISBN 9004125558.
Anand, D. (2001) Entries on Idealism, Nazism, Imperialism, Gay politics, Ethnicity, and Postcolonialism, in J. Mitchie (ed.), Readers Guide to the Social Sciences, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, ISBN 1579580912.
Book Reviews
Anand, D. (2006), A. M. Fischer ‘State growth and social exclusion in Tibet’, International Affairs, 82 (4).
Anand, D. (2005), J. J. Pettman ‘Worlding women: a feminist international politics’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 7 (1).
Anand, D. (2003), V. Bennholdt-Thomasen, N. Faraclas, and C. von Werlhof (eds), ‘There is an Alternative: Subsistence and Worldwide Resistance to Corporate Globalization’, Progress in Development Studies, 3 (1).
Anand, D. (2003), C. Sylvester, ‘Feminist International Relations: An unfinished Journey’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 5 (1).
Anand, D. (2002), D. Scott, ‘Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 8(1).
Anand, D. (2002), J. K. Knaus, ‘Orphans of the cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival’, Critical Asian Studies, 34 (2).
Anand, D. (2002), K. Brehony and N. Rassool ‘Nationalisms Old and New’, G. Cubitt (ed.) ‘Imagining Nations’, and U. Ozkirimli ‘Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 7 (3), 2001.
Anand, D. (2001), M. C. Goldstein and M. Kapstein (eds), “Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 7 (2).
Anand, D. (2000), V. Jabri and E. O’ Gormon, ‘Women, Culture, and International Relations’, Millennium, 29 (2).
Anand, D. (2000), S.Gill and J. H Mittelman, ‘Innovation and Transformation in International Studies’, Pacifica Review, 12 (3).
Anand, D. (2000), T. Dunne and N. Wheeler, ‘Human Rights in World Politics’, Journal of Peace Research, 37 (4).
Anand, D. (2000), D. Marsh and T. Gamble, ‘Marxism and Social Sciences’, Environment and Planning C: Government & Policy, 18 (6).
Anand, D. (2000), M. Doel, ‘Poststructuralist Geographies: the diabolical Art of Global space’, Environment and Planning D: Society & Space, 18 (5).
Anand, D. (2000), S. K. Mitra, ‘Culture and Rationality: the politics of social change in Post-colonial India’, Contemporary South Asia, 9 (2).
Anand, D. (2000), T. Shakya, ‘The Dragon in the land of snows: a history of modern Tibet since 1947’, Asian Ethnicity, 1 (2).
Anand, D. (1999), R. Ganguly, ‘Kin State Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts: Lessons from South Asia’, Millennium, 28 (2).