Sita Venkateswar is a socio-cultural anthropologist in the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University and Associate Director, Massey chapter, New Zealand India Research Institute, New Zealand. Her research documents the ways academic practices can be responsive to social inequities and she incorporates critical feminist scholar-activist research methodologies, designated as Public Anthropology, informed by feminist and post-colonial theories. She uses a comparative and reflexive anthropological lens to address issues of internal colonialism, gender, poverty, social oppression and structural violence within the post-colonial and neoliberal contexts of South Asia. Her ethnography Development and Ethnocide: Colonial Practices in the Andaman Islands (2004) is based on her