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Arjun Appadurai

New York University
United States

D-Index & Metrics D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines.

Discipline name Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking

Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 54 Citations 99,037 120 World Ranking 1269 National Ranking 623

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Awards & Achievements

1997 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

Law
Social science
Anthropology

His main research concerns Social science, Politics, Globalization, Economic system and Political economy. His study in Social science is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Gender studies, Hinduism and Semiotics. His Politics research incorporates elements of Consumption, Value, Economic history and Commodity.

Arjun Appadurai combines subjects such as Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory, Modernity, Grassroots and Media studies with his study of Globalization. His study focuses on the intersection of Economic system and fields such as Alliance with connections in the field of Democracy. His research in Political economy intersects with topics in Capital, Deregulation, Market economy and Conformity.

His most cited work include:

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (8813 citations)
The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective (3654 citations)
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (3086 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Arjun Appadurai mainly investigates Globalization, Politics, Anthropology, Social science and Gender studies. His research investigates the connection between Globalization and topics such as Ethnic violence that intersect with problems in Certainty. His studies in Politics integrate themes in fields like Poverty, Value and Economy.

His study in the fields of Sociocultural anthropology and Applied anthropology under the domain of Anthropology overlaps with other disciplines such as Four field approach and Digital anthropology. His Social science research includes themes of Citizenship, Modernity and Media studies. His study looks at the relationship between Modernity and fields such as Colonialism, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems.

He most often published in these fields:

Globalization (15.00%)
Politics (15.00%)
Anthropology (12.00%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

Anthropology (12.00%)
Refugee (2.00%)
Gender studies (9.00%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Anthropology, Refugee, Gender studies, Democracy and Stars are his primary areas of study. As part of his studies on Anthropology, Arjun Appadurai often connects relevant areas like Modernity. His work deals with themes such as Citizenship, Criminology and Identity, which intersect with Refugee.

His Argument research extends to Gender studies, which is thematically connected. His Democracy study is associated with Politics.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

The Production of Locality (318 citations)
Public Modernity in India (12 citations)
Museums are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India (8 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

Law
Social science
Anthropology

His primary areas of study are Gender studies, Production, Locality, Agroforestry and Anthropology. His Gender studies study combines topics in areas such as Citizenship, Argument and Identity. He frequently studies issues relating to Modernity and Anthropology.

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Best Publications

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

Arjun Appadurai.
(1996)

16455 Citations

Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy

Arjun Appadurai.
Theory, Culture & Society (1990)

14663 Citations

Commodities and the politics of value

Arjun Appadurai.
(2012)

6866 Citations

The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective

Arjun Appadurai.
Contemporary Sociology (1986)

6477 Citations

Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination

Arjun Appadurai.
Public Culture (2000)

2772 Citations

Fear of small numbers : an essay on the geography of anger

Arjun Appadurai.
(2006)

2650 Citations

Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics:

Arjun Appadurai.
Environment and Urbanization (2001)

1809 Citations

The Social Life of Things

Arjun Appadurai.
Research Papers in Economics (1988)

1763 Citations

The Production of Locality

Arjun Appadurai.
(2018)

1717 Citations

The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition

Arjun Appadurai.
(2013)

1608 Citations

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External Links

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