Angana Chatterji is 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. Her work focuses on issues of biopolitical governance and identity politics; nationalism, self-determination, and gendered violence; and cultural survival. She has worked issues of indigenous land rights and community governance. She is currently working on mapping the intersections of majoritarian nationalism and social and gendered violence in Orissa, India, and on issues of militarization, gender and identity, and self-determination in Indian-administered Kashmir. She has also worked with issues of hyper-nationalism, diaspora, and identity politics in the United States. Presently, Chatterji is co-convener of the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir. Her present writings include three books, Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present; Narratives from Orissa (Three Essays Collective, 2009); two forthcoming titles, Land and Justice: The Struggle for Cultural Survival (in press), and a co-edited volume, Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia; Notes on the Postcolonial Present (in press). She is currently working on a manuscript entitled, Archives of Mourning: Militarization and Governance in India-ruled Kashmir.

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