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Associate Professor Sita Venkateswar MSc, PhD

Associate Professor

Doctoral Supervisor
School of People, Environment and Planning

SITA VENKATESWAR is Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology programme at Massey University, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is also Associate Director of the Massey chapter of the  New Zealand India Research Institute (NZIRI). She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Rutgers University in 1997. Her ethnography Development and Ethnocide: Colonial Practices in the Andaman Islands (2004) is based on her Ph.D. fieldwork in the Andaman Islands from 1989 to 1992 funded by the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. Her co-edited book, The Politics of Indigeneity: Dialogues and Reflections on Indigenous Activism (2011) is published by Zed Books. In 2016 she co-edited with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay a third book Globalisation and the Challenges of Development in Contemporary India, Springer-Verlag.  Her current project with Dr. Vicky Walters explores diversity, everyday social relations and the socio-cultural landscapes inhabited by the Indian Diaspora in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Sita Venkateswar‘s research documents the ways academic practices can be
responsive to social inequities. Her work incorporates critical feminist scholar-activist
research methodologies, designated as Public Anthropology, informed by feminist
decolonial theories. She uses a comparative and reflexive anthropological lens
to address issues of internal colonialism, gender, poverty, social oppression and
structural violence within the postcolonial and neoliberal contexts of South Asia.

Her ongoing research addresses the changing agroecological contexts of food production in India and more recently in New Zealand and USA.

 

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Professional

Qualifications

  • Master of Science - University of Calcutta (1984)
  • Doctor of Philosophy - State University of New Jersey Rutgers (1997)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Supervisor, Massey University

Prizes and Awards

  • Pivot Award - Bashford Nicholls Trust (2020)
  • Strategic Research Excellence Fund - Massey University (2021)

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Sita's research interests in general include cultural analysis and the relationship between gender and power. Since her research in the Andaman Islands, she has conducted visual exploration of child labour in Nepal, and addressed issues related to poverty, and grassroots democracy in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). Sita has also conducted research addressing the situation of refugees and forced migrants in Europe.

She is currently embarked on new research exploring a multi-species approach to food resilience and climate justice that focuses on millet cultivation in India and community supported agricultural initiatives in New Zealand. Other new, collaborative, multidisciplinary opportunities relate to the early Indian diaspora in Aotearoa/New Zealand, ethical value chains and family violence interventions in South Auckland.

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship, Future Food Systems

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Anthropology (160100): Anthropology of Development (160101): Social and Cultural Anthropology (160104): Studies In Human Society (160000)

Keywords

South Asia, India, Anthropocene, Andaman Islands, Indigeneity, Millets, Food Resilience, Collaborative Methodologies, Public Anthropology, Multispecies, Gendered Knowledges

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
Project Leader 0 12

Completed Projects

Project Title: Pivot - Farming to flourish: Regenerative food systems, sustainable livelihoods and thriving communities in Taranaki

Abstract: The inaugural award will fund a partnership project between Farm Next Door - a growing network of small-scale urban organic market gardens in central New Plymouth led by Carl Freeman - and Massey University and Waginingen University researchers and associates. Farm Next Door is a group of local food producers using regenerative methods - which include a strong focus on soil health and crop diversity - to supply their local community in a supply chain that is sustainable both environmentally and economically. Research will focus on Farm Next Door's next phase of development in growing a new urban farming community and an expanding network of local producers who earn income from their land and supply local values-based produce for local consumers.
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Date Range: 2020 - 2021

Funding Bodies: Massey University; Bashford-Nicholls Charitable Trust

Project Team:

Project Title: Slow Violence, Social Suffering and Climate Justice: multidisciplinary interventions

The complex, multifaceted dimensions of discourses pertaining to climate change and the multiple and competing frameworks for addressing it, whether as research or as measures to mitigate its impact, has typically led to a fragmented approach to the issue and its related problems. This project aims to overcome this shortcoming by synthesising 3 key concepts: 'slow violence,' which engages with the gradual, imperceptible, but devastating long-term impact of human interventions on the ecosystem-environment-biome, with its implications to both non-human and human habitation and livelihoods; 'social suffering,' which addresses the oppressive social structures and processes that impact on humans and exacerbates the consequences of the 'slow violence' referred to earlier; 'climate justice,' deliberately shifts the frame of reference from climate change to focus on questions of justice in relation to climate change with its political implications and follows with an injunction towards multidisciplinary modes of engaging with these key conceptual frameworks.
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Date Range: 2012 - 2012

Funding Body: Massey University

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Project Title: Indigenous Futures in the 21st Century: Dialogues and Reflections

In relation to the Aotearoa/New Zealand research component of the edited book The Politics of Indigeneity: Dialogues and Reflections on Indigenous Activism, MURF funds was awarded jointly with co-researcher Hine Waitere, based at the time in the College of Education. The funds enabled us to convene huis at Palmerston North, Whangarei and virtually, which brought together Maori from various constituencies across the country to engage with the project. The research also provided an opportunity to a Maori postgraduate student, Elizabeth Allen to be involved in the research. The chapter "Beyond indigenous civilities: indigenous matters" co-authored by Hine Waitere and Elizabeth Allen was published in Dec 2011 by Zed Books.
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Date Range: 2008 - 2009

Funding Body: Massey University

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Research Outputs

Journal

Flachs, A., Bastos, C., Heath, D., & Venkateswar, S. (2024). Introduction to Special Collection: Plant-Anthropo-Genesis: The Co-Production of Plant–People Lifeworlds. Journal of Ethnobiology. 44(1), 3-10
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Flachs, A., Bastos, C., Heath, D., & Venkateswar, S. (2024). Introduction to Special Collection: Plant-Anthropo-Genesis: The Co-Production of Plant–People Lifeworlds. Journal of Ethnobiology. Retrieved from https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/RNC9V7YMPQMSX4BGVKMY/full
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Palakshappa, N., Venkateswar, S., & Ganesh, S. (2023). Broadening the circle: creativity, regeneration and redistribution in value loops. Social Responsibility Journal. 19(10), 1870-1884
[Journal article]Authored by: Palakshappa, N., Venkateswar, S.
Roche, M., & Venkateswar, S. (2022). Indian Casualties of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand. Immigrants and Minorities. 40(3), 306-336
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2022). Tea & Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka. South Asia: journal of South Asian studies. 45(4)Retreived from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00856401.2022.2128479?src=
[Book Review]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S., & Andersen, B. (2018). Ethnographic Frontiers: Pushing the Boundaries of Ethnography. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. 15(1), v-vi Retrieved from https://sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites/article/view/411
[Journal article]Authored by: Andersen, B., Venkateswar, S.Edited by: Andersen, B., Venkateswar, S.
Gibson, H., & Venkateswar, S. (2015). Anthropological engagement with the Anthropocene: A critical review. Environment and Society: Advances in Research. 6(1), 5-27
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2013). Transforming law and institution: indigenous peoples, the United Nations and human rights. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 19(4), 888-889
[Book Review]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2013). Music, masculinity and desire: Why this Kolaveri Di?. SAGAR: a south asia research journal. (June) Retrieved from http://sagarjournal.org/online-essays/
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2011). Vishvajit Pandya,In the forest: Visual and material worlds of Andamanese history (1858-2006). Contributions to Indian Sociology. 45(2), 298-300
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Ramaswamy, V., Gibson, L., & Venkateswar, S. (2010). The right to education and the pedagogy for hope: Some perspectives on Talimi Haq school. Critical Asian Studies. 42(2), 289-310
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2006). Manifesto for a public anthropologist: Insights from fieldwork. India Review. 5(3-4), 268-293
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2006). Poverty, empowerment and grass-roots democracy. Graduate Women New Zealand. 6(1), 33-36
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2003). Their world, through their eyes: Approaches to child labour in Nepal.. ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 111(1), 85-85
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2001). Gender/power: A view from the 'outside'. Senri Ethnological Studies. 56, 207-226
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2001). Strategies of Power: An Analysis of an Encounter in the Andaman Islands. Qualitative Inquiry. 7(4), 448-465
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2000). The Jarawa of the Andaman islands. Indigenous Affairs. (2), 32-38
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (1999). The Andaman Islanders. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. 280(5), 82-88
[Journal article]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.

Book

Muru-Lanning, M., Thorne, R., Waitere, H., & Venkateswar, S. (2021). Indigeneity: Reflections in Four Voices. In L. Pedersen, & L. Cliggett (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Cultural Anthropology. (pp. 581 - 588). London, United Kingdom: Sage Publishers Ltd
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2020). Writing to become.... In C. McGranahan (Ed.) Writing Anthropology: essays on craft and commitment. (pp. 234 - 238). Durham, North Carolina, United States of America: Duke University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (Eds.) (2016). Globalisation and the Challenges of Development in Contemporary India. Singapore: Springer-Verlag
[Edited Book]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.Edited by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S.(2004). Development and ethnocide : Colonial practices in the Andaman Islands. Copenhagen, Denmark: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
[Authored Book]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Roche, M., & Venkateswar, S. (2018). Indian migration to New Zealand in the1920s Deciphering the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1920’. In S. Bandyopadhyay, & J. Buckingham (Eds.) Indians and the Antipodes, Networks, Boundaries and Circulation. (pp. 129 - 161). New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2017). Millets and the Anthropocene. In C. Massey, (Ed.) The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2017 - No Free Lunch: Can New Zealand Feed the World Sustainably?. (pp. 267 - 272). Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2017). In different voices: Engaging with human–nonhuman entanglements. In N. Holm, & S. Taffel (Eds.) Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene. (pp. 125 - 140). Maryland, United States of America: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.Edited by: Taffel, S.
Venkateswar, S., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2016). Globalisation and the challenges of development: An introduction. In S. Venkateswar, & S. Bandyopadhyay (Eds.) Globalisation and the challenges of development in contemporary India. (pp. 1 - 15). India: Springer
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.Edited by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2016). Afterword: from the Andamans to the Antipodes and other origin stories. In F. Heidemann, & P. Zehmisch (Eds.) Manifestations of History in the Andaman Islands. (pp. 172 - 178). India: Primus Books
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Roche, MM., & Venkateswar, S. (2016). Neither Natural Born British Subjects nor Aliens: Indians in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914-1918. In J. Watson, J. Crawford, & D. Littlewood (Eds.) Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First World War. Palmerston North: Massey University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.Contributed to by: Venkateswar, S.Edited by: Littlewood, D.
Venkateswar, S. (2011). Indigeneity and international indigenous rights organisations and forums. In S. Venkateswar, & E. Hughes (Eds.) The Politics of Indigenous: Dialogues and Reflections on Indigenous Activism. (pp. 191 - 245). : Zed Books
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S., Waitere, H., & et.al, . (2011). Conclusion: Naming and claiming second-wave indigeneity: A dialogue and reflections. In S. Venkateswar, & E. Hughes (Eds.) The Politics of Indigeneity: Dialogue and Reflections on Indigenous Activism. (pp. 246 - 255). U.K.: Zed Books
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Abasa, S., & Venkateswar, S. (2011). Senufo Mask. In F. McKergow, & K. Taylor (Eds.) Te Hau Nui The Great Catch: Object Stories from Te Manawa. (pp. 210 - 215). New Zealand: Godwit Random House
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Afsarimanesh, N., Mukhopadhyay, SC., & Kruger, M. (2019). Introduction. In Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation. (pp. 1 - 6).
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2009). Poverty, empowerment and grass-roots democracy: defining participatory approaches. In K. Naidoo, & F. Patel (Eds.) Working Women. (pp. 210 - 219). New Delhi, India: Sage
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2008). The fate of the Jarawa: Some lessons across space and time. In DK. Behera, & G. Pfeffer (Eds.) Contemporary Society Tribal Studies. Volume 7: Identity, Intervention and Ideology in Tribal India and Beyond. (pp. 131 - 146). New Delhi, India: Ashok Kumar Mittal Concept Publishing Company
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2007). Robbed of childhood: children working as domestic servants in South Asian Cities. In C. Buddhadeb, & C. Sumita (Eds.) Urbanization and Multi-Ethnic Society. (pp. 388 - 399). India: M.C. Mittal
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2007). Robbed of childhood: Child labour and domestic service in South Asia. In DK. Behera (Ed.) Childhoods in South Asia. (pp. 240 - 248). New Delhi, India: Dorling Kindersley
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2005). An ethnographic overview of policies of 'planned change'. In DK. Behera, & G. Pfeffer (Eds.) Tribal Situation in India. (pp. 17 - 48). New Delhi, India: Ashok Kumar Mittal, Concept Publishing Company
[Chapter]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.

Conference

Venkateswar, S., & Chakraborty, R. (2022, September). Critical Agrarian Questions in Moananui-a-Kiwa: settler postcolonies, Te whenua, and just, multispecies futures. Presented at Climate Change and Agrarian Justice. Virtual.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2021, November). A poisoned chalice: Regenerative farming in a 21st century settler postcolony. Presented at American Anthropology Association 2021 Annual Meeting. Baltimore and Virtual.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S., Bernheim, C., & Grelet, G.Dirt Underfoot or the Wealth of Emergent Bioeconomies? 'Regen Ag' as the Antidote to Anthropocene Crises. . Christchurch
[Conference Other]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.Contributed to by: Venkateswar, S.Edited by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S., & Palakshappa, N. (2019, September). Asset to Zero Waste: Innovation, Science & Technology in circular waste bioeconomies. Presented at 4S: Innovations, Interruptions, Regenerations. New Orleans.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Palakshappa, N., Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S., & Palakshappa, N. (2019, December). Zero waste loops. Embedding equity, ethics and responsibility. Presented at Agri-Food Conference XXVI
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Palakshappa, N., Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2018, August). TNAU: Mission, Outreach and Impact. Presented at Towards Zero Hunger: Partnerships for Impact. Waginingen University, Netherlands.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2017, May). Anthropology for and of the times? Responding to crisis conjunctures in 21st century Aotearoa/New Zealand. Presented at Anthropology in Aotearoa Symposium, Celebrating 50 years of Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. Wellington, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2016). Farmers, farming and farms: construing risk, precarity and new technologies for food futures in India. EASA 2016: Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures. (pp. 44 - 44). UK: EASA2016: Anthropological legacies and human futures
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S., & Palakshappa, . (2016, April). Agrarian practices, intrepid entrepreneurs and ethical livelihoods: Deciphering the Appachi Cotton story. Presented at Sustainable Environments in 21st Century India, New Zealand India Research Institute Annual Conference. Palmerston North, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Palakshappa, N., Venkateswar, S.Contributed to by: Palakshappa, N.
Venkateswar, S. (2014). Expanding the margins: toward an 'anthropology of life' in the Anthropocene. American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Program & Abstracts. (pp. 5-0980 - 5-0980). Washington, D.C.: Producing Anthropology: Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Roche, MM., & Venkateswar, S. (2015, April). Indian migration to New Zealand in the early1920s: deciphering the Immigration Restriction Act 1908 and the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1920. Presented at Indian Migration to the Pacific and Indian Ocean States. Christchurch, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2014, December). Expanding the Margins: toward 'an anthropology of life' in the Anthropocene. Presented at American Anthropology Association 2014. Washington, DC.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Roche, MM., & Venkateswar, S. (2014, August). Neither Natural Born British Subjects nor Aliens: Indians in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914-1918. Presented at The Experience of a Lifetime: People, Personalities and Leaders in the First World War. The Centenary History of New Zealand and the First World War. Wellington, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2013, December). Que[e]rying the Human: Imagining Otherwise. Presented at Anthropology and Imagination. Association of Social Anthropology of Aotearoa/New Zealand Annual Conference. Wellington, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2012, December). Community Supported Agriculture: a Palmerston North case study. Presented at Agri-Food XIX, Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Agri-Food Research Network. Massey University, Palmerston North.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2012, December). The ethics of engagement in the Anthropocene: deciphering respons-a-bilities. Presented at The Limits of Responsibility: Histories, species, politics. Massey University, Palmerston North.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Symonds, S., Rowatt, A., Jamieson, A., Salapata, G., Abasa, S., & Venkateswar, S. (2011). 21C to 700 b.c in a swipe: The classics meet iPad. In ASCILITE 2011 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education(pp. 1201 - 1203).
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Rowatt, A., Salapata, G., Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S., & Abasa, S. (2011). Ways of seeing: Local collections, global connections. Proceedings of the 19th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference, July 2011. (pp. 104 - 110). : New Zealand Asian Studies Conference
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S., & Abasa, S. (2011). Ways of seeing: Local collection, global connections. In R. Haddon, R. Andrews, P. Shino, I. Muhammad, D. Osto, G. Watson, . . . C. van der Krogt (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference. (pp. 104 - 110). New Zealand: New Zealand Asian Studies Society Conference
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2006). Postcolonial politics and public anthropology: Envisioning a radical praxis. In Postcolonial Politics Conference(pp. 31). : University of Otago, Postcolonial Studies Research Network
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2006, November). Believing in anthropology: Towards a public anthropology as radical praxis. Presented at 31st Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand Conference: Bracketing [Belief]. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2005, November). Of cyclones, tsunamis and the colonial enterprise: A perspective on the Andaman Islanders. Presented at 104th Annual meeting of the AAA (American Anthropological Association). Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DCl.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2005, September). Poverty, empowerment and grass-roots democracy. Presented at 8th Women in Asia Conference. The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2004). Robbed of childhood: Children working as domestic servants in South Asian cities. (pp. 82 - 83). , International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Calcutta, India: University of Calcutta
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2004). Poverty, empowerment and grassroots democracy. (pp. 91). , International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter Congress; Mega Urbanization, Mutli-ethnic Society, Human Rights and Development Calcutta, India: University of Calcutta
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.

Other

Venkateswar, S. (2022). "There is a crack in everything". PEN America
[Other]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2020). Refusal. : Society for Cultural Anthropology
[Internet publication]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2020). Assimilation, Dispossession, Erasure, or Refusal. : Society for Cultural Anthropology
[Internet publication]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.Edited by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2018). How should we think of the Sentinel Islanders?. : Dispatches, Cultural Anthropology website
[Internet publication]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2018). A is for Anthropology, Affordances, Ambivalence, Aotearoa. : Cultural Anthropology, Field Sights, Hot Spots
[Internet publication]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2015). Following the foxtail: Millets, resilience and gendered practices in food futures. (pp. 6 - 8). New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women
[Other]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2015, January). Millet matters: From marginality to millenial crop. In Center for Culture Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation, National University of Singapore.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2014). Writing to become. Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology
[Other]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Daud, MN., Coombes, L., Venkateswar, S., & Ross, K. (2013). Globalisation: The Experience of Malay Adolescents with Conduct Problems. School of Psychology, Massey University
[Other]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S., & Banks, G. (2011, September). Fieldwork and trusting relationships: Implications for ethics review processes. In Human Ethics Committee Workshop. Presented at Massey University.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2009, November). Public Anthropology and [Post]colonial politics in the Andaman Islands. In Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon Portugal.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2009, December). Discovering the Andaman Islanders. In Martin de Freitas School, Coimbra, Portugal.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2009, January). Believing in Anthropology: Towards a radical praxis. In Asiatic Society Foundation Day Celebrations.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2008, January). Understanding the Andaman Islanders: Past and Present. In Rotary Club of Calcutta South East.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S.Poverty, empowerment and grass-roots democracy: Defining participatory approaches.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2004, May). Teritorial and cultural integrity of the Jarawas. In Drawal of a policy for the Jarawas. : Indian Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2010). Public Anthropology and [Post]colonial politics: "Crisis conjunctures" in the Andaman Islands. In Oficina do CES(pp. 4 - 20). In Portugal: Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
[Working Paper]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S.Poverty, empowerment and grassroots democracy. (pp. 33 - 36). New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women
[Other]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Pausé, C., Andrew, L, ., & Venkateswar, S, .Here and now: ‘Foreign’ women living and working in Aotearoa New Zealand. Presented at Women@Massey Lunchbox Series 2010.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.
Venkateswar, S. (2007). Of cyclones, tsunamis and the engaged anthropologist: Some musings on colonial politics in the Andaman Islands. In Centre for Indigenous Governance and Development (CIGAD) Working Paper Series(pp. 1 - 7). : Massey University, Department of Management
[Working Paper]Authored by: Venkateswar, S.

Teaching and Supervision

Teaching Statement

Co-tutelary PhD supervision of Sandra Cristina Simoes Marquez at the Univeristy of Lisbon (2004-2009)

2009   Cameras and Tourism in Kolkata: Representations through photovoice ISCTE-IUL 2009, Doctoral Thesis (see link below for more details):

repositorio-iul.iscte.pt/handle/10071/3941


Graduate Supervision Statement

I have successfully supervised and co-supervised 10 PhD students, domestic and international. Over the same period I have also supervised and co-supervised to completion 10 MA students and 15 Honours students. I continue to mentor many of the students beyond their theses towards publication, while also undertaking supervision of summer scholarship students to achieve publication.


Associate Professor Sita Venkateswar is available for Masters and Doctorial supervision.

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 2 6
Co-supervisor 1 3

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • Christie Satti - Doctor of Philosophy
    Voice in Evaluation: Methodology for Inclusive Evaluation Practice for Innovation.
  • Hina Tabassum Cheema - Doctor of Philosophy
    Becoming a ‘good’ Muslim Woman: Comparing Habitus and Everyday Lived Religiosity An Autoethnographic Study of Aotearoa NZ Muslim Women

Co-supervisor of:

  • Swarnima Kriti - Doctor of Philosophy
    Learning to Host Caring Practices - Co-Creating Liveable Worlds

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • 2018 - Amie Lennox Townsend - Doctor of Philosophy
    Human trafficking in Mindanao: personal narratives and local perspectives
  • 2015 - Susan Abasa - Doctor of Philosophy
    Policies. Practices. Public Pedagogy: Two Case Studies of Art Museum Educators in Aotearoa New Zealand.
  • 2011 - Lorena Gibson - Doctor of Philosophy
    Hope, agency and the 'side effects' of development in India and Papua New Guinea
  • 2009 - Trisia Farrelly - Doctor of Philosophy
    Business Va'avanua: Cultural Hybridisation and Indigenous Entrepreneurship in the Bouma National Heritage Park, Fiji
  • 2008 - Jennifer Infanti - Doctor of Philosophy
    Telling lives: Children's stories of hope, loss, love, and violence in Aotearoa / New Zealand.
  • 2006 - Wilma Robinson - Doctor of Philosophy
    Belonging: Pakeha Women's Practices in Aotearoa New Zealand .

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2017 - Mohd Najmi Daud - Doctor of Philosophy
    Globalisation in the Malaysian context: The experience of Malay adolescents with 'conduct disorders'
  • 2012 - Swati Mishra - Doctor of Philosophy
    Recasting Respectability: Habitus, call centres and the modern Indian women
  • 2001 - Sam Murray - Doctor of Philosophy
    Terra Aquarius - A Marxist Ethnography of the Alternative Lifestyle in Nimbin.

Media and Links

Media

  • 30 Jul 2014 - Radio
    Nights with Bryan Crump
    Discussion on National Radio about Women, War and Peace film series
  • 25 May 2013 - Newspaper
    Films reveal hidden lives
    Feature article
  • 17 Aug 2023 - Online, Newspaper
    Farming to Flourish Impact Story
    Farming to Flourish Pivot project Impact News
  • 12 Jul 2014 - Community Service
    Women, War and Peace film series
    5 part film series
  • 04 May 2013 - Community Service
    South Asia Film Festival
    Travelling Southasian Documentary Film Festival
  • 04 Dec 2018 - Online
    Why the media needs to stop glorifying previous
    Interview with quotes published in The News Minute
  • 03 May 2021 - Newspaper
    Taranaki out to lunch on locally grown fare
    Focus on research related event, convened as a part of community engagement for the Farming to Flourish Pivot project, funded by the Bashford Nicholls Trust. The event was a Long Lunch that profile 5

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