Indian anthropologist Arjun Appadurai’s research focuses on the interrelations of modernity, globalization and an anthropology of time and space. He attributes the negative effects of globalization to a cultural process in which identities of local and imagined communities are destabilized. In his publications such as “Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger”, he voices a pragmatic approach to globalization and predicts the dissolution of the nation state. Following positions at the University of Chicago and the New School, New York, he was appointed Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University in 2008.
