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Nikhil Anand

PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Stanford University

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Nikhil Anand is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at Stanford University. His research focuses on the political ecology of urban infrastructures, and the social and material relations that they entail. Through ethnographic research, he studies how natural resources and specific configurations of the public are mobilized to effect environmental projects in the cities of Mumbai. He is currently in the process of completing his dissertation, Infrapolitics: The Social Life of Water in Mumbai. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2006 and 2009, this project focuses on the ways in which the work of municipal engineers to deliver and distribute water in the city ‘meets’ the work of the urban poor to access it. Nikhil has previously published articles on a range of urban/ environmental issues in journals that include Economic and Political Weekly and Conservation and Society. Engaged in a variety of pedagogic and activist projects in Mumbai since 1999, he directed a collaborative documentary film project, Ek Dozen Paani in 2008. Nikhil has a Masters degree in Environmental Science from Yale University, and is an Associate at PUKAR.