Assa Doron, BA (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), MA (prelim.), PhD (La Trobe)
Research Fellow, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2012, School of Culture, History & Language
Email: assa.doron@anu.edu.au
Biographical statement
Assa Doron joined ANU in August 2007. He obtained his BA in History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and PhD in social anthropology from La Trobe University, Melbourne. He held a postdoctoral fellowship in the National University of Singapore. He is currently working on issues to do with identity and the cultural politics of disadvantaged groups in North India, as well as on a health project on alternative medicine and biomedical practices in India.
Research interests
The anthropology of contemporary India, and South Asia and Southeast Asia more generally; development studies and contemporary health practices; urbanization; modernity, and identity politics; religion; tourism studies; postcolonial studies, ethnographic practice, Diaspora studies.
Key publications
- Jeffrey, R. & Doron, A. (forthcoming) Celling India: The mobile phone’s contribution to capitalism, democracy and unsettling society (Hurst: London; Hachette: New Delhi)
- Doron, A. (forthcoming) Life of the Ganga: Caste, domination and resistance in North India (Cambridge University Press and Foundation Books: New Delhi).
- Doron, A. & Barz, R. & Nelson, B (in press, eds) (2011) The Ganga anthology: Modern writings on the River Ganges (Oxford University Press: New Delhi)
- Doron, A. & Broom, A. (eds) (2011) Health, culture and religion in South Asia: Critical perspectives (Routledge:, London, New Delhi)
- Jeffrey, R. & Doron, A. (forthcoming) ‘Mobile-izing: Democracy, organization and India's first “Mass mobile phone” elections’, The Journal of Asian Studies
- Broom, A. & Doron, A. (in press, 2011) ‘The Rise of Cancer in India: Cultural understandings, structural inequalities and the emergence of the clinic’, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
- Jeffrey, R. & Doron, A. (in press, 2011) ‘Celling India: A preliminary exploration of a society’s embrace of the mobile phone’, South Asian History and Culture
- (2010) Caste Away: Subaltern Engagement with the Indian State, Modern Asian Studies, 22(4), 753-783.
- "The Intoxicated Poor: Alcohol, morality and power", South Asian History and Culture, 1(2): 282-300 (Routledge, 2010)
- (2009) "Ferrying the Gods: Myth, Performance and the question of 'Invented Traditions' in the city of Banaras" [PDF], SITES: A Journal of Social Anthropology & Cultural Studies, 6(3): 58-79.
- (2009) "In Praise of the Ordinary Man: Popular media, social hierarchy and identity in a North Indian text", Asian Studies Review 33(4):515-533 (Routledge)
- [with Ursula Rao] (2009) "From the Edge of Power: the cultural politics of disadvantaged castes in India", Asian Studies Review, 33(4): 419-428 (Routledge)
- [with Alex Broom & Philip Tovey] (2009) "The Inequalities of Medical Pluralism: hierarchies of health, the politics of tradition and the economies of care in Indian oncology", Social Science and Medicine, 69(5):698-706 (Elsevier)
- Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance, Ashgate, UK (2008)
