Anna Lindberg

Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Anna Lindberg is a researcher at the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies who specializes in contemporary Indian history. Her focus is on South Indian history in a global perspective and her approach is interdisciplinary, embracing gender, development, and anthropology. She seeks to integrate social history and interdisciplinary analysis with postmodern and postcolonial theories.

Anna Lindberg defended her doctoral dissertation, “Experience and Identity: A Historical Account of Class, Caste, and Gender among the Cashew Workers of Kerala, 1930-2000” at the Department of History, Lund University on 13 October 2001. The faculty opponent was Professor Umadevi Sambasivan of the Department of Economics, Kerala University. Anna Lindberg’s research had been carried out under the auspices of the Center for Development Studies in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, and her dissertation later published as a monograph by NIAS Press, Copenhagen and University of Hawaii Press 2005.

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It was reviewed by Manja Bomhoff in IIAS Newsletter No. 43 (Spring 2007).

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Anna Lindberg is also director/coordinator of the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET)

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