Dibyesh Anand

Dibyesh Anand  (academic, journalist)
Alma mater	University of Bristol, University of Hull, St Stephen's College (University of Delhi)
Member of	Chevening Scholarship
Interests	Tibet
Indian/British academic on Tibet who writes for the Guardian.  Professor In office 2007 - Present Employer University of Westminster

Dibyesh Anand is Head of School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster, England. He has written for the Guardian. He has spoken extensively in support of the Tibetan independence movement.

Education

Anand did his Bachelor in History from St Stephen's College, University of Delhi, and a MA in International Law and Politics at the University of Hull (1997-1998). The MA was sponsored by British Chevening scholarship.

Anand did his PhD (1998-2002) from the Department of Politics at University of Bristol and the topic was related to Western representations of Tibet and its political and cultural significance.

Career

He was a lecturer at the University of Bath. He joined University of Westminster in 2007 as a Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations. He has been a Professor since 2016.

He has held visiting positions at University of California Berkeley, Australian National University, Centre for Bhutan Studies, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Central University of Hyderabad and delivered many talks, lectures and seminar papers at institutions in USA, Europe, India, Bhutan, China, Russia, Singapore, and Australia.

Work

"I have shifted places and disciplines, I have experienced elite and non elite as well as religious and secular education, my ideas emerge as much on Facebook as it does in structured scholarly forums, I indulge in concepts as much as in every day politics. What has remained consistent so far is my desire to produce scholarship that is meaningful to groups and peoples who are often marginalised, minoritised, occupied and suppressed. This desire comes across in my research, academic writings and public engagement on topics including colonial practices of postcolonial states including China in Tibet and Xinjiang and India in Kashmir, politics and international relations of stateless Tibetans, Islamophobia in India, majoritarian nationalisms including Hindutva, politics of security and representation, ethnic relations in Zanzibar, emergence of China and India as major non-Western powers as well as contested nature of nation-state formations in China and South Asia."

 

A Document by Dibyesh Anand

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)
Document:The Violent Vocabulary of Policing	webpage	13 December 2010	Civil unrest UK/Police

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