Gender and the state in India; prostitution and sex trafficking in discursive regimes and institutional practices; Foucault on law, institutions, sexuality, and genealogy; governmentality; anthropology of law; anthropology of the state; human rights in South Asia; NGO's and neoliberalism.
Vibhuti Ramachandran
PhD. Sociocultural
Entered 2008
I was delighted to speak on Anthropology TV about my research at the
2013 AAA meetings in Chicago. The video is available at
http://www.websedge.com/videos/anthropology_tv/#/prostitution_in_india_how_sex_workers_interact_with_the_legal_system
Here is my contribution to the Field Notes section for Cultural
Anthropology, where I participated in a forum on illegality:
http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/559-illegality-translation
Assistant Professor of International Studies, University of California-Irvine