John Clammer is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He was educated at Oxford University (D.Phil. in Anthropology), and has had a wide-ranging international career. He has held titular posts at the University of Hull, Singapore National University, Sophia University (Tokyo), the United Nations University and now at O.P. Jindal Global University. He has held visiting positions at Oxford, Pondicherry Central University, the University of Buenos Aires, Tokyo University, the Bauhaus Universitat Weimar, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore,Handong University (South Korea), JNU in Delhi, and Kyoto University. Before joining OPJ he was Director of international Courses, Adviser to the Rector and Professor of Development Sociology at the United Nations University in Tokyo. His work has been equally wide ranging and has encompassed development sociology, urban sociology, religion, social theory, economic anthropology, the sociology of art, sustainability and environmental sociology. A main aspect of his work throughout has been on the interface of culture and development. He has published widely on these subjects and more recent books include Cultural Rights and Justice (2019), Cultures of Transition and Sustainability (2016), Culture, Development and Social Theory: Towards an Integrated Social Development (2012), Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art (2014) and Art, Culture and International Development: Humanizing Social Transformation (2015) and recent edited collections include (with Meera Chakravorty, Marcus Bussey and Tanmayee Banerjee Dynamics of Dissent: Theorizing Movements for Inclusive Futures (2020). In 2019-21 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Science and at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute and research there is embodied in a volume in press entitled Vulnerability, Risk and Sustainability: Culture and Sustainability in Disaster Management and Recovery.