Anant Kamath
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I am a social scientist, with my training throughout in economics but my interests and writing spanning well outside of the discipline, into economic-sociology, technological change, and the political economy of development. Prior to NIAS, I was with the School of Development at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, for six years. My doctoral work was at the United Nations University / MERIT (The Netherlands), before which I have studied at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS, Trivandrum), Madras School of Economics (Chennai) and St. Joseph's College (Bangalore). I am also involved in the western classical music scene in Bangalore, as principal violinist of the Bangalore School of Music Chamber Orchestra.
Research Interests:
My interests lie in technological studies, within which my focus has been around the economic-sociology of technological outcomes, with conceptual foundations in social constructivist and feminist-historical perspectives on technology. Hence, concerns on social capital and spatiality, inequality, urban transition, social mobility, gender, and caste, have undergrid all my research thus far. Methodologically, I have experimented on and employed a variety of methods such as network analysis, archival work, oral histories, social construction of technology, focus group discussions, interviews, surveys, and quantitative methods. As a result, the broader political-economy dynamics have always framed the analytical and conceptual setting in every one of my research studies.
I have published in various international journals on technology and society. My latest book The Social Context of Technological Experiences released in 2020 under Routledge, while I also brought out a book in 2015 also under Routledge titled Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development. My third volume (co-authored) is on neoliberal urban transition and digital experiences among street-based sex workers in Bangalore city, which is under review with Cambridge University Press.
Book Chapters
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Kamath, Anant . 2020. “Informal Information-Exchange Networks in Rural Low-Tech Clusters”. In Inclusive Innovation: Evidence and Options in Rural India, Inclusive Innovation: Evidence and Options in Rural India, Springer . https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132239277.
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Kamath, Anant . 2015. “Information Sharing through Informal Interaction in Low-Tech Clusters ”. In Innovation and Development, Innovation and Development, Routledge , 170-171. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2157930X.2015.1007570.
Books
Journal Articles
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Kamath, Deepak Y, K B Bhuvana, Luke Joshua Salazar, Kiron Varghese, Anant Kamath, Jyoti Idiculla, Prem Pais, Shruthi Kulkarni, Bradi B Granger, and Denis Xavier. 2021. “A qualitative, grounded theory exploration of the determinants of self-care behaviour among Indian patients with a lived experience of chronic heart failure”. PLoS ONE 6 (1 (e0245659) ). https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245659.
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Kamath, Anant , and Neethi P. 2021. “Body politics and the politics of technology: technological experiences among street-based sex workers in Bangalore”. Gender, Technology and Development. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09718524.2021.1933348?src= .
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Kamath, Anant , and Neethi P. 2021. “Disappearing spaces and betraying allies: urban transition and street-based sex work in Bangalore”. Globalizations . https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2021.1984796.
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Tewathia, Nidhi , Anant Kamath, and P VigneswaraIlavarasan. 2020. “Social Inequalities, Fundamental Inequities, and Recurring of the Digital Divide: Insights from India”. Technology in Society 61 (101251 ). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160791X19304567?via%3Dihub.
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P, Neethi , Anant Kamath, and Anjali M Paul. 2019. “Everyday Place Making Through Social Capital Among Street Vendors at Manek Chowk, Gujarat, India”. Space and Culture . https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1206331219830079.
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Kamath, Anant . 2018. “Untouchable Cellphones: Old Caste Exclusions and New Digital Divides in Peri-Urban Bangalore”. Critical Asian Studies 50(3): 375-394. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14672715.2018.1479192.
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Kamath, Anant , and Robin Cowan. 2015. “Social Cohesion and Knowledge Diffusion: Understanding the Embeddedness–Homophily Association”. Socio-Economic Review 13(4): 723-746. https://academic.oup.com/ser/article-abstract/13/4/723/2337697?redirectedFrom=fulltext.
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Mani, Sunil , and Anant Kamath. 2014. “Evidence-based Policymaking: What can we learn from India’s R&D statistics?”. Economic and Political Weekly 49(10): 13-16. https://www.epw.in/journal/2014/10/commentary/evidence-based-policymaking.html.
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Kamath, Anant . 2013. “Interactive knowledge exchanges under complex social relations: A simulation model of a developing country cluster”. Technology in Society 35(4): 294-305.
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Kamath, Anant . 2011. “Does technical education in India contribute to its Core-HRST? A case study of IIT Madras”. Science and Public Policy 38(4): 293-305. https://academic.oup.com/spp/article-abstract/38/4/293/1674009?redirectedFrom=fulltext.
Working Papers
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Kamath, Anant . 2021. “A Technological Enquiry into Inequality: A Conceptual Review (NIAS/SSc/IHD/U/WP/11/2021)”. : 40.