marika vicziany
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Vicziany, M. 2022. ‘Kolis of Mumbai and Shirdi Sai Baba’, in Srinivas, S. et al., Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint - Shirdi Sai Baba's Presence, Chapter 5. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003229902.
Vicziany, M.; Hardikar, J. 2022. Can Self-Administered Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) Help Rural India? An Evaluation of the CoviSelf Kit as a Response to the 2019–2022 COVID-19 Pandemic. Diagnostics 2022, 12, 644. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12030644.
Marika Vicziany 2022. The Women of Kashgar: Doris Skrine's Water Colours, TAASA Review, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.14-15., https://taasa.org.au/review_articles/review-2022march-f6419858d765f73c1ab42a4157fd076a/
Marika Vicziany & Jaideep Hardikar (2021) India’s Rural Medical Revolution: The Attitudes of Villagers to Village-Level Blood Testing in Maharashtra, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 44:6, 1146-1166, DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2021.1986244
Marika Vicziany (2021) The Modernisation of South Asia’s Disease Burden: 1950 to 2021, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 44:6, 1114-1130, DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2021.2004002
BACKGROUND TO MY CAREER
I began my academic career with a Honours degree in history and politics from the University of Western Australia where I first became interested in India thanks to the wonderful work of Basham: THE WONDER THAT WAS INDIA. On receiving the prestigious Hackett Postgraduate Scholarship, I started a Phd at the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg , Germany in 1969. The doctorate was completed at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 1975 on the subject of the 'Commercial Development of Bombay and the Cotton Trade', with Prof K N Chaudhuri as my supervisor. Since returning to Australia in 1976 I have had a long and varied career as a teacher, supervisor, scholar and consultant. I have published some 20 books and over 140 scholarly papers; I served on the Australia India Council (Canberra) from 1993 to 1997; I was Director of the National Centre for South Asian Studies from 1993 to 1997; then the Director of the Monash Asia Institute from 2001 to 2011. More recently I was President of the South Asian Studies Association of Australia and I remain a member of that organisation while serving on the boards of various international journals including CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA (UK). I am also Hon Visiting Professor at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata in India. I have supervised to completion more than 30 Ph.D. candidates and written reports for the Asian Development Bank, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra, the Government of Afghanistan, the State Government of Western Australia, Ausaid, the Australia Council and various private companies.
My primary research focus in the last 50 years has been the intersection between cultural-religious minorities in Asia and regional development and security. I have worked mainly on Indian dalits, Mumbai's tribal Kolis and minorities in Pakistan and China.
At Monash University I continue to organise research seminars for the Monash Asia Initiative and head up international collaborative research projects on the Kolis in Mumbai and Kashgar's cultural heritage.
During the last five years I have also been working with Australian and Chinese scholars on a Bronze Age archaeological site in the Bole region of the Jungar Basin, Xinjiang. This work focusses on technological exchange, the migration of people and understanding the nature of herding-farming- artisan economies and their uses of water and land. The Australian component of this project was funded by the ARC *AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL* . With Professor Alison Betts et al I published a collection of essays in THE ANCIENT CULTURES OF XINJIANG, WESTERN CHINA, with Archaeopress in Oxford. The book focuses on the role of Xinjiang as the cultural-technological cross roads between China and south-central Asia and Europe.
The last four years have been defined by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has had an impact on all scholars including me. I have expanded my work on public health in India to analyse the impact of the pandemic on Indian villagers and the potential of new technologies such as rapid antigen testing. In Australia, I have been working with co-authors on different aspects of the pandemic in Australia, with forthcoming publications that compare the current pandemic with the Spanish Flu in 1919.
My work on Kolis in Mumbai continues with forthcoming chapters appearing in a new book I have edited with Jayant Bapat on SOUTH ASIAN GODDESSES AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (Archaeopress, Oxford, late 2023).
For further information: Marika.Vicziany@monash.edu
Vicziany, M. 2022. ‘Kolis of Mumbai and Shirdi Sai Baba’, in Srinivas, S. et al., Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint - Shirdi Sai Baba's Presence, Chapter 5. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003229902.
Vicziany, M.; Hardikar, J. 2022. Can Self-Administered Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) Help Rural India? An Evaluation of the CoviSelf Kit as a Response to the 2019–2022 COVID-19 Pandemic. Diagnostics 2022, 12, 644. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12030644.
Marika Vicziany 2022. The Women of Kashgar: Doris Skrine's Water Colours, TAASA Review, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.14-15., https://taasa.org.au/review_articles/review-2022march-f6419858d765f73c1ab42a4157fd076a/
Marika Vicziany & Jaideep Hardikar (2021) India’s Rural Medical Revolution: The Attitudes of Villagers to Village-Level Blood Testing in Maharashtra, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 44:6, 1146-1166, DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2021.1986244
Marika Vicziany (2021) The Modernisation of South Asia’s Disease Burden: 1950 to 2021, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 44:6, 1114-1130, DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2021.2004002
BACKGROUND TO MY CAREER
I began my academic career with a Honours degree in history and politics from the University of Western Australia where I first became interested in India thanks to the wonderful work of Basham: THE WONDER THAT WAS INDIA. On receiving the prestigious Hackett Postgraduate Scholarship, I started a Phd at the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg , Germany in 1969. The doctorate was completed at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 1975 on the subject of the 'Commercial Development of Bombay and the Cotton Trade', with Prof K N Chaudhuri as my supervisor. Since returning to Australia in 1976 I have had a long and varied career as a teacher, supervisor, scholar and consultant. I have published some 20 books and over 140 scholarly papers; I served on the Australia India Council (Canberra) from 1993 to 1997; I was Director of the National Centre for South Asian Studies from 1993 to 1997; then the Director of the Monash Asia Institute from 2001 to 2011. More recently I was President of the South Asian Studies Association of Australia and I remain a member of that organisation while serving on the boards of various international journals including CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA (UK). I am also Hon Visiting Professor at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata in India. I have supervised to completion more than 30 Ph.D. candidates and written reports for the Asian Development Bank, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra, the Government of Afghanistan, the State Government of Western Australia, Ausaid, the Australia Council and various private companies.
My primary research focus in the last 50 years has been the intersection between cultural-religious minorities in Asia and regional development and security. I have worked mainly on Indian dalits, Mumbai's tribal Kolis and minorities in Pakistan and China.
At Monash University I continue to organise research seminars for the Monash Asia Initiative and head up international collaborative research projects on the Kolis in Mumbai and Kashgar's cultural heritage.
During the last five years I have also been working with Australian and Chinese scholars on a Bronze Age archaeological site in the Bole region of the Jungar Basin, Xinjiang. This work focusses on technological exchange, the migration of people and understanding the nature of herding-farming- artisan economies and their uses of water and land. The Australian component of this project was funded by the ARC *AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL* . With Professor Alison Betts et al I published a collection of essays in THE ANCIENT CULTURES OF XINJIANG, WESTERN CHINA, with Archaeopress in Oxford. The book focuses on the role of Xinjiang as the cultural-technological cross roads between China and south-central Asia and Europe.
The last four years have been defined by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has had an impact on all scholars including me. I have expanded my work on public health in India to analyse the impact of the pandemic on Indian villagers and the potential of new technologies such as rapid antigen testing. In Australia, I have been working with co-authors on different aspects of the pandemic in Australia, with forthcoming publications that compare the current pandemic with the Spanish Flu in 1919.
My work on Kolis in Mumbai continues with forthcoming chapters appearing in a new book I have edited with Jayant Bapat on SOUTH ASIAN GODDESSES AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (Archaeopress, Oxford, late 2023).
For further information: Marika.Vicziany@monash.edu
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This volume explores Malaysian business in the era that began with the Asian financial crisis of 1997–1999. The contributions, by a broad range of international experts, are informed by a wish to identify what Malaysia needs to do to sustain economic growth, remain internationally competitive and further social stability in the post-crisis period.
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