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Assa Doron's main areas of interest include, urban anthropology, development, environment & public health, media and technology. Much of his fieldwork was carried in Varanasi where he focused on the ritual economy of the river, a study that was published in the book, Life on the Ganga, (Cambridge, 2013). Doron's collaboration with Robin Jeffrey led to a book on the mobile phone revolution in India, titled, The Great Indian Phone Book (Harvard UP/C. Hurst, 2013). The book received wide media coverage in outlets such as, The Economist, Bloomberg, India Today, Times Higher Education, The Wall Street Journal, LA Review of Books, Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), LSE Review of Books, The Australian, and SMH as well as in various academic journals.
Doron & Jeffrey's prize winning book Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India (Harvard 2018), was widely covered in outlets including The Guardian, Times of India, Down to Earth and Quartz. The book was favourably reviewed in Nature, Times Literary Supplement, New Scientist, Public Books, LSERB, The Australian, and The Wire amongst others. Doron is currently working on questions to do with public health, environmental degradation and the crisis of antimicrobial resistance.
Assa Doron was also the Founding Director of the South Asia Research Institute at ANU until 2017.
Career highlights
2022 - Reid Prize (citation for Waste of a Nation); Asian Studies Assoc Australia
2020 - President’s Book Prize for 2018–19 (citation)
2019 - Awarded Australian Research Council Discovery Project
2013/4 – Awarded Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASAA) Early Career Research Prize
2012 - Awarded Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
2008 - Awarded Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship
The anthropology of contemporary India, and South Asia; development studies; technology, urbanization; public health & sanitation, identity politics; religion; ethnographic practice, new media, waste and recycling, antimicrobial resistance.
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Key research areas focus on the themes of Media and Technology, Culture and Politics, and Health and Society. Research projects and grants include:
2019-2021- ARC Discovery Project [DP190100823]. Project title: ‘Superbugs’ in India: Antimicrobial resistance, inequality and development [First investigator]
2015-16 -- RSAP, New Directions Grant
2011-15 ARC Future Fellowship. Project title: Recycling Modernity: An anthropological study of India’s mobile phone repair and recycling economies.
2015 - English Adjusted: Everyday English Keywords in India.
2011 -- Australia-India Council Research Grant. Project title: Celebrating Subaltern Studies: A symposium.
2009-10 -- AusAID Australian Development Research Award. Project title: Masculinity and violence in Indonesia and India.
2009-12 -- ARC Discovery Project [DP0985784]. Project title: Mediated Mobilities: India’s low caste revolution in the media age.
2009-12 - ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship [DP0985784]. Project title: Mediated Mobilities: India’s low caste revolution in the media age.
2008 -- Research Grant (ARC-APFRN, CAPSTARNS, RSPAS). Workshop title: Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article