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Dolly Daftary, Associate Professor, School for Global Inclusion & Social Development

Dolly Daftary

Department:
School for Global Inclusion & Social Development
Title:
Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor
Location:
Bayside Floor 04 00436
Phone:

617.287.4769

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Biography

Dolly Daftary’s research focuses on the impact of social and economic change processes on individuals, households, and communities in a global and comparative perspective, grounded in field research in India. Her interdisciplinary approach is informed by political economy, institutional social sciences, and postcolonial studies. Her work has been recognized with awards from the Taraknath Das Foundation- then at the Southern Asia Institute at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Area of Expertise

Global development, institutional change, social and economic change processes, agrarian studies, environmental studies, market-driven policy paradigms, political economy, artisanal commodities, knowledge and aesthetics, democratic politics, identity and cultural politics, ethnography, measurement

Degrees

PhD, Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis

Graduate Certificate, New Institutional Social Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

MA, Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India

BA (Honors), Economics, Indraprastha College, Delhi University, India

Professional Publications & Contributions
  • Daftary, D. Forthcoming. OBCs, Adivasis, and Entangled Identities in India's Heartland. Economic and Political Weekly.
    Daftary, D. (2024) Television and temples: Hindutva and OBC and Adivasi Self-Making in Borderland Gujarat. 47(3), 518-533. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
    Daftary, D. (2023) Hindutva, Critical Asian Studies, 56 (1), 72-88.
  • Daftary, D. (2020).  Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
  • Daftary, D. (2020). . Journal of Asian and African Studies.
  • Daftary, D. (2019).  Geoforum, 103(July), 105-113.
  • Daftary, D. (2019).  Development in Practice, 29(3), 360-370.
  • Daftary, D. (2019).  Journal of Peasant Studies, 46(1), 80-95.
  • Daftary, D. (2018).  Economic & Political Weekly, 53(22): 43-50.
  • Daftary, D. (2018).  In Leela Fernandes (Ed.), Feminists rethink the neoliberal state: Inequality, exclusion and change (pp. 179-217). New York, NY: NYU Press.
  • Daftary, D. (2018).  Economic and Political Weekly, 53(3).
  • Daftary, D. (2016).  European Journal of Development Research, 28(4), 690–704.
  • Daftary, D. (2014).  Community Development Journal, 49(4), 573-588.
  • Daftary, D. (2014).  Development and Change, 45(4), 710-731.
  • Gonzales, E., Morrow-Howell, N., Daftary, D., Stafford, R. & Echols, J. (2013).  Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 35(2), 134-151.
  • Daftary, D. (2013).  Journal of International Development, 26(7), 999-1010.
  • Menon, N., & Daftary, D. (2011).  Journal of International Social Work, 54(1), 81-96.
  • Daftary, D. (2010). Democratic decentralization from the bottom up: The comparative effect of wealth and electoral capital on elected leaders’ distribution of development. Social Development Issues, 32(2), 42-54.
  • Daftary, D. (2010). . Journal of Development Studies, 46(10), 1692–1707.
  • McBride, A. M., Pritzker, S., Daftary, D., & Tang, F. (2006). . Journal of Community Practice, 14(4), 71-89.

Additional Information

Dr. Daftary's work has focused on economic change, cultural politics, and political subjectivity. Her current project spans continents and world regions and explores transformations in India’s artisanal economy, with a focus on artisanal groups nested in environmental, pastoral and agrarian milieus. Her writings have appeared in  and