Biju Mathew (Rider University)

Biju Mathew
Assistant Professor of Business
Rider University
2083 Larenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648  USA

phone: 609-895-5551
FAX:   609-896-5304
email: mathew@rider.edu

Description of work:

My work revolves around three primary thematics: Hindutva, Migration, and
Globalization and attempts to explicate the inter-relations between these
three nodes of interest for contemporary South Asian scholars and
activists. On Hindutva, my work is largely on Hindutva's relation to the
politics of identity within diasporic Indian-American communities and on
the specific aspects of caste and class that make Hindutva such a potent
force in diasporic life. Further it locates the flourishing of Hindutva in
North America within th context of globalization. The other mode by which
the thematic of globalization is reflected in my work is through a
critical examination of the discourses of globalization and its
(dis)connections with post-80's South Asian labor migration into the US.
Much of this work is related to my work as a volunteer organizer for the
New York Taxi Workers Alliance.