Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai lives in Berlin and was educated in India and in the United States. His Ph.D. (1976) is from The University of Chicago. He teaches at New York University and at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. He has published and taught on globalization, migration, material culture and public culture. His most recent book (with Neta Alexander) is Failure (Polity Press 2019). He is the co-editor of the journal Public Culture, and writes frequently on the erosion of democracy in India.