Itty Abraham (Social Science Research Council)

Itty Abraham
Program Director
South Asia and Southeast Asia Programs
Social Science Research Council
810 Seventh Avenue, 31 Floor
New York NY 10019, USA

phone: 212-377-2700
fax:   212-377-2727
email: abraham@ssrc.org

Description of work:

My work can be divided up into a number of areas, broadly, critical
international relations studies, science studies (esp. of the developing
world), globalization, and issues to do with intenational knowledge
production.  Representative publications include "Toward a Reflexive South
Asian Security Studies", in M. G. Weinbaum and C. Kumar, eds, _South Asia
Approaches the Millenium: Reexamining National Security_ (Boulder:
Westview, 1995); "Landscape and Postcolonial Science" in R. Reid and S.
Traweek, eds, _Located Knowledges: Doing Cultural Studies of Science,
Technology and Medicine_ (New York: Routledge, forthcoming);  Guest editor
of a special issue of _Sojourn_ (Singapore) on _Southeast Asian
Diasporas_, vol. 12, no. 2, 1997;  and my recently published study of the
culture and politics of the nuclear establishment in India, _The Making of
the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, secrecy and the postcolonial state_
(London and New York: Zed Books, 1998).  For the next three years, I will
serve on the South Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies
(1999-2001). 

Key words:  International Relations;  Science Studies;  Knowledge Flows
and Globalization;  Cultural Studies