Faculty Member, Anthropology & Sociology
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Arafaat A. Valiani, Assistant Professor,Williams College
Ph.D Columbia University
MA University of London (School Affiliations: School of Oriental and African Studies; London School of Economics)
Present to January 2010, Kluge Fellow, Kluge Center, Library of Congress
www.arafaatvaliani.net
http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/11/25/mumbai-revisited/#Valiani
Arafaat A. Valiani’s current book project ethnographically and historically investigates how practices of physical training have produced novel forms of civic conduct that are tied to public performances of violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The manuscript examines the organization of daily physical training by the contemporary Hindu Nationalist Movement and situates it in relation to the anti-colonial nationalist movement of Mohandas Gandhi in the 1930s and 1940s.
Arafaat Valiani's next research project will focus upon practices of consumerism and citizenship in the context of commercial architecture and urban planning in contemporary India. By ethnographic and historical means, this study will examine the emergence of new forms of urban commercial space and how changes in its design have been tied to new conceptions of citizenship in the contexts of neoliberal economic reform and unprecedented economic growth.
Before taking up his appointment in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Williams College, Arafaat Valiani earned his doctoral degree from Columbia University, Dissertation title: Formations of Dissent: Militancy and Violence in Gujarat (1928-2002). He also earned a Masters degree from the the School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Economics.
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