FEATURED AUTHOR

Dr Rituparna Bhattacharyya, SFHEA

Adjunct Professor;Visiting Professor;Research Consultant;Editor-in-Chief (Joint)
Indian Institute of Technology; University of Science and Technology

I have over two decades of teaching and research experience. After completing PhD from Newcastle University, my academic practice has integrated research & teaching across different universities in South Asia. Currently, I am the General Editor of a series entitled Gender and Violence (the ‘Series’), Routledge, Taylor and Francis.

Biography

I am an avid academician with expertise in GeoHumanities linked to Gender, Inequalities, Poverty, Violence, Sustainable Goals, and Development in the Global South. I have over two decades of teaching and research experience spending the first seven years (1996-2003) of my career in only classroom teaching. After accomplishing my PhD from the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University, UK, in 2009, my academic practice has integrated research and teaching(classroom and online teaching) across different universities of South Asia. Currently, I am an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati and a Visiting Professor at the University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya. In addition, I am engaged in contract and invited teachings across various universities of South Asia and continue to work with publishers—Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan, Sage, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, and Wiley.

Education

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Gender, Inequalities, Poverty, Violence, Sustainable Goals, and Development in the Global South. Currently, I am the series editor, Gender and Violence, Routledge, Taylor and Francis.

Personal Interests

I love listening to music and singing in private and watching movies

Websites

Books

Genocides and Xenophobia in South Asia -- Bhattacharyya - 1st Edition book cover

Northeast India Through the Ages -- Bhattacharyya - 1st Edition book cover

Articles

Understanding Xenophobia and Genocide

Published: Mar 01, 2024 by Genocides and Xenophobia in South Asia and Beyond: A Transdisciplinary Perspective
Authors: Rituparna Bhattacharyya

This introduction chapter has engaged in theorising the notions of genocide and xenophobia to critically analyse the socio-cultural, historical, and infrequently structural contexts triggering xenophobia leading to various forms of violence—riots, attacks on civilians, mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

Chapter Is Assam Under the Shackle of a Silent Genocide?

Published: Mar 01, 2024 by Genocides and Xenophobia in South Asia and Beyond: A Transdisciplinary Perspective
Authors: Rituparna Bhattacharyya, Pranjit Kumar Sarma

The principal purpose of this chapter is twofold: first, to examine the extent to which the local inhabitants of Assam bear xenophobic attitudes against the (il)legal migrants from Bangladesh and the Bengali-speaking people. Second, to investigate whether the (il)legal migrants have changed the state’s demographic make-up. If so, can this demographic change be termed a ‘silent genocide’?

1994 Rwanda Holocaust A Critical Analysis of Xenophobia Mutating to Genocide against the Tutsi

Published: Mar 01, 2024 by Genocides and Xenophobia in South Asia and Beyond: A Transdisciplinary Perspective
Authors: Rituparna Bhattacharyya, Venkat Rao Pulla, Charles Kalinganire, & Gaspard Rwanyiziri

This chapter devotes itself to critically analysing how xenophobia and its variants mutated, resulting in the Holocaust against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

Semiotics of rape: Sexual subjectivity and violation in rural India.

Published: Sep 09, 2023 by Asian Studies Review
Authors: Rituparna Bhattacharyya

This is a book review

Northeast India Through the Ages

Published: Jul 29, 2023 by North East India Through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Prehistory, History, and Oral History
Authors: Rituparna Bhattacharyya

This chapter introduces the primary purpose of this comprehensive book project, which aims to bring to the fore the annals of prehistory, history and oral history of Northeast India deploying a transdisciplinary approach, which has received very little attention hitherto.

03 August 2015 Framework Agreement, Naga National Movement, and confused road ahead

Published: Jul 29, 2023 by North East India Through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Prehistory, History, and Oral History
Authors: Rituparna Bhattacharyya, Ajay Prasad, Sanjay Prasad

This chapter revisits the Naga National Question and their struggle for Greater Nagalim and the ongoing Peace Talks. In so doing, it critically analyses the role and voices of the stakeholders involved directly or indirectly in the Naga National Movement.