John ClammerJohn Clammer is Professor of Sociology in the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities at O.P. Jindal Global University (Delhi, India). He previously taught at Sophia University (Tokyo) for almost two decades, and prior to that at the National Unversity of Singapore. Dr Clammer has been a visiting professor or fellow at universities around the world including the United Nations University, Kent, Oxford, Handong, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Murdoch, Pondicherry, and the Bauhaus Universität Weimar. He has also been a fellow of the Institutes of Advanced Studies at Warwick University and at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Professor Clammer's work has encompassed many fields including sociological and anthropological theory, the sociology of religion, solidarity economy, and the sociology and anthropology of Southeast Asia and Japan. His recent work has been on the sociology of art and the interface of culture and development, includes monographs like 'Culture, Development and Social Theory', 'Towards an Integrated Social Development, Art, Culture and International Development', 'Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art', and the co-edited volume 'The Aesthetics of Development: Art, Culture and Social Transformation', as well as the forthcoming 'Cultural Rights and Justice: Sustainable Development, the Arts and the Body'. Read More Read Less