Arjun Appadurai

70.6k citations
103 papers · 24.3k indexed · 15 hit papers · h-index 41

Arjun Appadurai

91 papers receiving 18.1k citations

Hit Papers

The Future as Cultural ...63719812026199620112.5k5.0k7.5k

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Arjun Appadurai
Comparison fields: 5 of 181
  • Anthropology 4.8k
  • Urban Studies 2.2k
  • Sociology and Political Science 12.0k
  • Geography, Planning and Development 1.5k
  • Cultural Studies 2.1k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Arjun Appadurai, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Diversity and disciplinarity as cultural artifacts
20136
6 201241
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Higher Education's Coming Leadership Crisis.
20097
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Die Geographie des Zorns
20093
9
Los riesgos del diálogo
20080
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Self-Development and Social Transformations?: The Vision and Practice of the Self-Study Mobilization of Swadhyaya
20081
11 20060
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Fear of Small Numbersbreakdown →
2006609
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Information is Alive : Art and Theory on Archiving and Retrieving Data
200346
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Après le colonialisme : les conséquences culturelles de la globalisation
200154
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Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politicsbreakdown →
2001616
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Soberanía sin territorialidad. Notas para una geografía posnacional
199914
17 199735
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The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspectivebreakdown →
19881047
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Wells in Western India: irrigation and cooperation in an agricultural society
19843
20 198198

About Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai is a scholar working on Anthropology, Urban Studies and Museology, having authored 103 papers that have together received 24.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (11 papers), Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 papers), Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 papers), South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 papers), Indian History and Philosophy (4 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 papers), South Asian Cinema and Culture (4 papers) and Urban Planning and Governance (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Anthropology (4.8k citations), Urban Studies (2.2k citations) and Sociology and Political Science (12.0k citations). Arjun Appadurai has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, William H. Davenport, Nancy Farriss, Patrick J. Geary, Brian S. Spooner, Lee V. Cassanelli, James Holston, Carol A. Breckenridge, Jonathan Parry and Maya Unnithan. Their work appears in journals such as Public Culture, Environment and Urbanization, American Ethnologist, Comparative Studies in Society and History and Social research.

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