Arjun Appadurai

(Bombay, India, 1949). During his extensive academic career he has taught in the universities of Yale, Chicago, Pennsylvania and The New School for Social Research and has also travelled to work as a visiting professor in universities around the world, among them the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Besides his Chair at the New York University, he presently occupies honorific posts at Yale and The New School for Social Research. He is an intellectual of reference in discussion on globalisation and its social and cultural effects. His publications in this area have marked a turning point in present-day knowledge of transformation of societies in advanced modernity. Notable amongst his publications are Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996, University of Minnesota Press), which was published in Spanish as La modernidad desbordada. Dimensiones culturales de la globalización – Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2001); and Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (2006, Duke University Press), which was published in Spanish as El rechazo de las minorías. Ensayo sobre la geografía de la furia (Tusquets, 2007). He is president of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action, and Research), a Bombay-based group of independent researchers who aim to apply their studies on urbanisation and globalisation as a tool of social intervention and transformation.