Current Research Interests
Anthropology; social movements and development; global civil society; NGOs; involuntary resettlement; ethnicity; political economy; and South Asia.
Selected Publications
Fisher, William F. 2003. The politics of difference and the reach of modernity: Reflections on the state and civil society in central Nepal. In Resistance and the state: Nepalese experiences, ed. David Gellner. Delhi: Social Science Press.
Fisher, William F. and Thomas Ponniah, eds. 2002. Another world is possible: Popular alternatives to globalization at the world forum. London: Zed Books. Editions published in Japanese and French, 2004. Click here to learn more about this publication.
Fisher, William F. 2001. Diverting water: Revisiting the Sardar Sarovar Project. Water Resources Development 17 no. 3.
Fisher, William F. 2001. Fluid boundaries: Forming and transforming Thakali identity in Nepal. New York: Columbia University Press.
Fisher, William F. 2001. Grands barrages, flux mondiaux, et petites gens. Critique Internationale no. 13 (October).
Fisher, William F. 2000. Sacred rivers, sacred dams: Visions of social justice and sustainable development along the Narmada. In Hinduism and ecology, eds. Chrisopher Chapple and Arvind Sharma. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Fisher, William F. 1999. Going under: Indigenous peoples and the struggle against large dams. Cultural Survival Quarterly, Fall.
Fisher, William F. 1997. Doing good? The politics and anti-politics of NGO practices. Annual Review of Anthropology 26.
Fisher, William F., Ed. 1995.Toward sustainable development? Struggling over India's Narmada River. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe Publishers.
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