Jonathan S Anjaria

Associate Professor of Anthropology

janjaria@brandeis.edu
781-736-2221
Brown Social Science Center, 209

Departments/Programs

Anthropology
South Asian Studies

Degrees

University of California, Santa Cruz, Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Cruz, M.A.
Harvard University, B.A.

Expertise

Urban anthropology, mobility, transportation infrastructure, streets, body cultures

Profile

Professor Anjaria teaches courses in Urban Studies, Ethnographic Research Methods, Applied Anthropology, Sports and Society and the Culture and Politics of India and Pakistan. His research has focused on the mobility, sustainable transportation, body cultures, the politics of public space and the informal economy in urban India. His publications include a book titled the Slow Boil: Street Food, Public Space and Rights in Mumbai. He has also published articles on bicycling and infrastructure, corruption, street vending, civic activism, citizenship and popular culture in contemporary India, and co-edited a book on urban South Asia (Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia, with Colin Mcfarlane). He is currently researching cycling in India.

Courses Taught

ANTH	1a	Introduction to the Comparative Study of Human Societies
ANTH	158a	Urban Worlds
ANTH	167a	Sports, Society and the Body
ANTH	202b	Advanced Ethnographic Research Methods
ANTH	215b	Practical Ethnography
ANTH	340a	Anthropology Graduate Proseminar
SAS	100a	India and Pakistan: Understanding South Asia

Awards and Honors

Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowship (2019 - 2020)

Senior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) (2015 - 2016)

Mellon Foundation/ American Council of Learned Societies Early Career Fellowship (2009)

Mellon Foundation/ American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2007)

American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Junior Fellowship for Dissertation Research (2005)

Scholarship

Anjaria, Jonathan S. "Ethnography on the Move: Doing fieldwork on a bicycle." (2021): <https://ethnomarginalia.com/ethnography-on-the-move-doing-fieldwork-on-a-bicycle/>.

Anjaria, Jonathan S and Ulka Anjaria. "Mazaa: Rethinking Fun, Pleasure and Play in South Asia." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 43. 2 (2020).

Anjaria, Jonathan S. "Surface Pleasures: Bicycling and the Limits of Infrastructural Thinking." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 43. 2 (2020).

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "How a Sikh cyclist’s legal battle against the helmet rule goes beyond matters of religion or safety." Scroll.in (2018)

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Mumbai has the makings of a great cycling city." Scroll.in September 16, 2017.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi." by Asher Ghertner. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies vol. 40 of 4 2017: 921-922.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. The Slow Boil: Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Ursula Rao. "Talking Back to the State: Citizens' Engagement After Neoliberal Reform in India." Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale 22. 4 (2015): 410-427.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Review of Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City." Rev. of Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City, by Laurent Gayer. Journal of Asian Studies vol. 74 2015

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Review." Rev. of Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity, by William Mazzarella. American Ethnologist vol. 42 of 3 2015: 538-540.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Ulka Anjaria. "Slumdog Millionaire and Epistemologies of the City [revised version]." The Slumdog Phenomenon: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Ajay Gehlawat. Anthem Press, 2013. 53-68.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Ulka Anjaria. "The Fractured Spaces of Entrepreneurialism in Post-Liberalization India." Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India. Ed. Nandini Gooptu. Routledge, 2013. 190-205.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Review." Rev. of Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan, by Mathew Hull. American Ethnologist vol. 40 2013: 587-588.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Review." Rev. of Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry, by Tejaswini Ganti. American Ethnologist vol. 40 of 1 2013: 228-230.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Is There a Culture of the Indian Street?." Seminar 636 (2012): 21-27.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Colin Mcfarlane, ed. Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia. Routledge, 2011.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Colin Mcfarlane. "Conceptualising the City in South Asia." Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia. Ed. Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Colin Mcfarlane. New Delhi and London: Routledge, 2011. 1-22.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Ordinary States: Everyday Corruption and the Politics of Space in Mumbai." American Ethnologist 38. 1 (2011): 58-72.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Ulka Anjaria. "Slumdog Millionaire and Epistemologies of the City." Economic and Political Weekly 45. 24 (2010): 41-46.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Guardians of the Bourgeois City: Citizenship, Public Space and Middle Class Activism in Mumbai." City and Community 8. 4 (2009): 391-406.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Ulka Anjaria. "Text, Genre, Society: Hindi Youth Films and Postcolonial Desire." Journal of South Asian Popular Culture 6. 2 (2008): 125-140.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "On Street Life and Urban Disasters: Lessons from the ‘Third World'." What is a City?: Rethinking the urban after Hurricane Katrina.. Ed. Phil Steinberg and Rob Shields. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2008. 186-202.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "The Mall and the Street: Practices of Public Consumption in Mumbai." Lived Experiences of Public Consumption: Encounters with Value in Marketplaces on Five Continents. Ed. Daniel Thomas Cook. New York: Palgrave, 2008. 203-220.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Bombay to Mumbai: The City in Transition." Rev. of Bombay to Mumbai: The City in Transition, by Sujata Patel and Jim Masselos.. Contributions to Indian Sociology vol. 40 of 3 2006: 407-409.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Street Hawkers and Public Space in Mumbai." Economic and Political Weekly 41. 21 (2006): 2140-2146.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Urban Calamities: A view from Mumbai." Space and Culture 9. 1 (2006): 80-82.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Ulka Anjaria. ""Modernity's Split Subject"." Rev. of Seven Summers; The Mulk Raj Anand Omnibus; Mulk Raj Anand: Shaping the Indian Modern., by Mulk Raj Ananad. Biblio vol. 10 November-December: 6-7.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Packaging a Dream." Rev. of Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and globalization in contemporary India, by William Mazzarella. Biblio vol. 10 2005: 28-29.