Ananya Mukherjee-Reed
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science,
Cross-appointed to International Development Studies & Social and Political Thought
Founding-Director, International Secretariat for Human Development

Office Ross South 669
Phone 416 736 2100 extn 20266 0r 33197
email: ananya@yorku.ca


About me

• Areas of Specialization:  Critical Political Economy/Development; Critical approaches to comparative social science; Knowledges & Epistemologies of Development; Corporate capitalism and Development; South Asia

• Brief bio

• Research and publications
• Recent Media appearances
  
  
• My most recent book, Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia (London and New York: Routledge); also available in paperback and a special South Asian edition distributed through Cambridge University Press, South Asia
  
  
• My co-edited volume in collaboration with UNRISD, Geneva has just been published: Business Regulation and Non-state actors: Whose Standards? Whose Development? has just been published by the Routledge Series in Development Economics (2012)
  
  
• My latest project on Rabindranath Tagore, one the greatest intellectuals and social thinkers India has ever produced. He was the first non-European to have been awarded the Nobel Prize (1913)
  
  
• Recent articles
• From food security to food justice, The Hindu, February 1, 2012
• Tagore and the Idea of Cooperation, The Hindu, July 2, 2011
• Rabindranath Tagore: Much more than a mystic. Toronto Star, May 7, 2011
• Two visionaries: Tagore and Ambedkar, Outlook India, May 9, 2011
• The Wrongs about the Right to Food, Outlook India
• How to be a little less unjust, The Telegraph
  
  
• My series on One World South Asia
• Migration and 'unfreedom' (Part 1), January 30, 2010
• Migration and injustice (Part 2), February 13, 2010
• Food security as if women mattered (Part 1), October 23, 2010
• Food security as if women mattered (Part 2), October 30, 2010

Affiliations

• International Secretariat for Human Development (ISHD)
• Our latest project: women and social change
• South Asian Studies

Graduate work

• Some graduate work I am involved with

Courses

• AP/SOSC 2435 6.0 Introduction to South Asian Studies
• AP/POLS 4590 3.0 Political Developments in South Asia
• AP/POLS 3560 6.0 The Global South: Politics, Policy, Development
• Graduate:  AP/POLS 6485 3.0 Contemporary Social Transformations (cancelled for 2011)