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Associate Professor

Yamini Narayanan

ARC Future Fellow

Faculty of Arts and Education/Alfred Deakin Institute/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

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  • ARC Future Fellow
    Faculty of Arts and Education/Alfred Deakin Institute/Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 924 46808 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

A/Prof. Yamini Narayanan is an ARC Future Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Yamini's research intersects animal, political and environmental geography, multispecies ethnography, South Asian studies, and animals and geopolitics.

 

Yamini's book Mother Cow, Mother India (2023, Stanford/Navayana) won the Mid Career Researcher Book Prize 2024 from the Asian Studies Association of Australia, and has been shortlisted in the Non-Fiction catetory for the Crossword Book Award 2024, one of India's most prestigious national literary honours.

Yamini's substantive work focusses on the entanglement of animals in nationalist and developmental ideologies in India. She is currently researching animals in coercive labour in India’s brick kilns, exploring an anti-anthropocentric politics of poverty and development. Yamini’s Future Fellowship project “Animals and geopolitics in South Asian Borderlands” examines animal-state relations in South Asia, and considers how animals shape, subvert and are impacted by geopolitics. 

Yamini's work is published in leading journals including Annals of the American Association of Geographers; Environment and Planning A, D and E; Urban Geography; Geoforum; Hypatia; and South Asia. Yamini's research is supported by three Australian Research Council grants, including the DECRA Fellowship. In 2019, Yamini was awarded Deakin University's Vice Chancellor's Award for Mid-Career Research Excellence.

Yamini is the founding Convenor of the Deakin Critical Animal Studies Network, and is a lifelong Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, an honour that is conferred through nomination or invitation only.

Yamini serves as Special Issues Editor of Urban Geography, and Associate Editor of Environmental Humanities. 

 

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • ARC Future Fellow
    Deakin University, Alfred Deakin Institute

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Human geography
  • Anthropology
  • Development studies
  • Policy and administration
  • Political science

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • Alfred Deakin Institute

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE

  • Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation