About
I am a political ethnographer with a research focus primarily in the Indian city of Mumbai. My work has studied how global-level processes of urbanization and urban transformation are redrawing lines of socio-spatial inclusions and exclusions in that city, animating new arenas of political mobilization, contention and representation.
Select Peer-Reviewed Research
- Lisa Björkman Bombay Brokers Duke University Press 2021
- Lisa Björkman Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai Duke University Press, 2015
- Lisa Björkman and Patton Burchett. 2021. “The Value of Tantra: Markets, Modernity, and Mubai’s Master of Mantra,” Journal of American Academy of Religion, 89(3): 885-908.
- Lisa Björkman and Chitra Venkataramani. 2019. “Mediating Mumbai: Etthnographic Explorations of Urban Linkage,” International Planning Studies, 24(1): 81-95.