Assistant Professor

B.A     Oberlin College (1996)
M.A    Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (1998)
M.Sc   Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University (1999)
Ph.D   Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University (2005) 

Bio

Office: Dubai Academic City, (D wing - L1 -033)
Phone: +9714 402 1827
Email: Akbar.keshodkar@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

Anthropology of Muslim societies, culture and society, Africa, Indian-Ocean societies, Modern world history, Ethics, trans-nationalism, globalization, tourism, research methods, politics of identity, kinship, comparative sociology

Research and Professional Activities

Upcoming Book:

The Movement of Identities in Post Socialist Zanzibar:  The politics of belonging in the era of Tourism.  Lexington (2013) 

Chapters in Books: 

Forthcoming  “The Price of Branding: tourism and the elusive search for “culture” among Emiratis in Dubai, UAE” in Andy Spiess (ed). Tourism Development in the GCC States:   Reconciling Economic Growth, Conservation and Sustainable Development (2013).

2012      “Local Consequences for Global Recognition: The “Value” of World Heritage Status for Zanzibar Stone Town,” in Maria Gravari-Barbas, Laurent Bourdeau, Mike Robinson     (eds), World Heritage Sites and Tourism: Global and Local Relations. London: Routledge

2011     “The Politics of World Heritage Tourism: The dilapidation of Zanzibar Stone Town,” in Laurent Bourdeau et al. (eds). World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the Global and the Local. Quebec City: University of Laval Press, pp. 713 – 728.

Peer Reviewed Journals:

Forthcoming    “Who needs China when you have Dubai?  Significance of transnational socio-economic Indian Ocean trade networks on identify formation in Zanzibar,” Journal of Asian and African Studies (presently under review)

2010    “Marriage as the means to preserve “Asian-ness”:  the post revolutionary experience of the Asians of Zanzibar,” in Journal of Asian and African Studies, 45 (2):  226 – 240.

2009    “The impact of tourism in re-constituting genealogies and kinship relations in Zanzibar,” Encounters, 1 (fall): 203 – 229.  Reprint – Second Edition 1 (fall): 215 - 243.

2005    “The politics of localization:  controlling movement in the field”, in Anthropology Matters, Vol. 6 (2)

Works in Progress: