Anne Rademacher

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Environmental Studies

Anne Rademacher (M.E.S., Ph.D., Yale University) is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai (University of California Press 2017), and Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu (Duke University Press 2011). With K. Sivaramakrishnan, she is co-editor of Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism (Hong Kong University and Columbia University Press 2017), and Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability (Hong Kong University and Columbia University Press 2013).

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Education

Ph.D. 2005 (Anthropology and Environmental Studies), Yale University

M.E.S. 1998 (Environmental Studies), Yale University

B.A. 1992 (History), Carleton College

Areas of Research/Interest

Environmental anthropology; modern ecology and statemaking; sustainable design in urban settings; urban ecology

Books

Selected Publications

2018. "From feedbacks to coproduction: toward an integrated conceptual framework for urban ecosystems." Urban Ecosystems. PDF

2011. “Housing in the Urban Age: Inequality and Aspiration in Mumbai.” With Nikhil Anand. Antipode 43.

2010. “Restoration and Revival: Remembering the Bagmati Civilization,” In Guneratne, Arjun (ed). Symbolic Ecologies: Nature and Society in the Himalaya. New York: Routledge.

2009. “When is Housing an Environmental Problem? Reforming Informality in Kathmandu.” Current Anthropology. PDF

2009. “Marking Remembrance: Nation and Ecology in Two Riverbank Pillars in Kathmandu.” In Walkowitz, Daniel and Lisa Maya Knauer (eds). Narrating the Nation in Public Spaces: Memory, Race, and Empire. Duke University Press.

2008. “Fluid City, Solid State: Urban Environmental Territory in a State of Emergency.” City and Society 20(1). PDF

2008. “The Rural in the Urban: Human Settlements, River Territories and a Contingent State in Kathmandu.” In Social Sciences in a Multicultural World: Proceedings of the International Conference Held on 11-13 December 2006, Kathmandu. SASON/NCCR (Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research): Kathmandu. Pp. 367-374.

2008. “The Concept of Human Agency in Contemporary Conservation and Development Discourses,” with Michael R. Dove, Andrew Mathews, Jonathan Padwe, and Keely Maxwell. In McCay, Bonnie, Susan Lees, and Paige West (eds). Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology. Rowan and Littlefield.