Dwaipayan Banerjee
Associate Professor in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT
About
What new perspectives about the history and practice of science, technology, and medicine emerge when we foreground the intellectual labor of thinkers and practitioners from the Global South? My work centers the lives and creative visions of scientific practitioners in South Asia, challenging scholars to reorient how we understand the past and future of science, technology, and medicine.
The themes of my research span the fields of health, medicine, and computing. Across these themes, I account for foundational global inequalities that shape the limits and possibilities of science, technology, and medicine in the lives of people in South Asia—ranging from doctors, patients, technocrats, scientists, and engineers.
Ultimately, my work is driven by my commitment to envisioning more expansive geographies for science and technology studies.
Books
Selected Publications
Actual and Potential Gifts: Critique and shadow gift relations
Revue du MAUSS 63 (1), 58-84
"What you See is What You Do not Get": Expressive Non-Occurrent Gifts and Shadow Gift Relations
Mauss international 3 (1), 125-153
Provincializing bioethics: Dilemmas of end‐of‐life care in an Indian ICU
American Ethnologist 49 (3), 318-331
Culture, communication and community in palliative cancer care: a view from India
ecancermedicalscience 16
From internationalism to nationalism: a new vaccine apartheid
Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa and the middle East 41 (3), 312-317
Actual and potential gifts: Critique, shadow gift relations and the virtual domain of the ungiven
Anthropological Theory 21 (1), 28-49
Discussant's comment II: For and against an 'Indian'Sociology: A response to Marilyn Strathern's 'What's in an argument?'
Contributions to Indian Sociology 55 (1), 35-44
Anonymity and transgression: Caste, social reform, and blood donation in India
Book of Anonymity, 70-87
Fantasies of Control: The Colonial Character of the Modi Government's Actions during the Pandemic
Caravan Magazine
Cancer and conjugality in contemporary Delhi: Mediating life between violence and care
Medical Anthropology Quarterly 33 (4), 579-594
Analysis of social science research into cancer care in low-and middle-income countries: improving global cancer control through greater interdisciplinary research
Journal of Global Oncology 4, 1-9
Therapies Out of Reach: Anticancer Drugs and Global Trade Regimes
Science, Technology and Society 23 (3), 371-387
Markets and molecules: a pharmaceutical primer from the south
Medical Anthropology 36 (4), 363-380
Writing the disaster: substance activism after Bhopal
Contemporary South Asia 21 (3), 230-242
Assessing psychosocial distress: A pain audit at IRCH-AIIMS
Annals of Palliative Medicine 2 (2), 764-784
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Doctoral Thesis: Concealments and Conciliations: The Emergent Politics of Cancer in India
Academic Positions
Fellowships & Honors
Contact
Office
E51-180, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139