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Ipsita Chatterjee

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Geography and the Environment

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, Clark University, 2007
    Major: Geography
    Dissertation: Globalization and Social conflict: A Case study of Hindu- Muslim conflict in Ahmedabad, India.
  • MPhil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2002
    Major: Geography
    Dissertation: Space as Container, Space as Contained: An Exploration with Special reference to the Nation space in India.
  • MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2000
    Major: Geography
    Specialization: Subject areas: Development, Urban, Economic, Political, Quantitative, Philosophy of Geography, Geomorphology, Climatology, Hydrology, Oceanography, Ecology, Demography

Current Scheduled Teaching

GEOG 2170.001Culture, Environment and SocietyFall 2024 Syllabus
GEOG 3600.001Political GeographyFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

GEOG 5300.001Globalization, Conflict, and ResistanceSpring 2024 SPOT
GEOG 5210.001Seminar in Urban GeographySpring 2024 SPOT
GEOG 4210.001Urban GeographySpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 2170.001Culture, Environment and SocietyFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 3600.001Political GeographyFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 5300.001Globalization, Conflict, and ResistanceSpring 2023 SPOT
GEOG 5950.706Master's ThesisSpring 2023
GEOG 5210.001Seminar in Urban GeographySpring 2023 SPOT
GEOG 4210.001Urban GeographySpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 2170.001Culture, Environment and SocietyFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 5950.005Master's ThesisFall 2022
GEOG 3600.001Political GeographyFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 5300.001Globalization, Conflict, and ResistanceSpring 2022 SPOT
GEOG 5210.001Seminar in Urban GeographySpring 2022 SPOT
GEOG 4210.001Urban GeographySpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 2170.001Culture, Environment and SocietyFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 3600.001Political GeographyFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 5300.001Globalization, Conflict, and ResistanceSpring 2021 SPOT
GEOG 5210.001Seminar in Urban GeographySpring 2021 SPOT
GEOG 4210.001Urban GeographySpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 2170.001Culture, Environment and SocietyFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 3600.001Political GeographyFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 5900.705Special ProblemsFall 2020
GEOG 5300.001Globalization, Conflict, and ResistanceSpring 2020
GEOG 5210.001Seminar in Urban GeographySpring 2020
GEOG 4210.001Urban GeographySpring 2020 Syllabus
GEOG 5950.705Master's ThesisFall 2019
GEOG 5950.703Master's ThesisSpring 2019
GEOG 5210.001Seminar in Urban GeographySpring 2019 SPOT
GEOG 5900.705Special ProblemsSpring 2019 SPOT
GEOG 4210.001Urban GeographySpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 2170.001Culture, Environment and SocietyFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 1200.001Global SocietiesFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 5950.705Master's ThesisFall 2018
GEOG 5900.705Special ProblemsFall 2018
GEOG 5300.001Globalization, Conflict, and ResistanceSpring 2018 SPOT
GEOG 5920.705Research Problems in Lieu of ThesisSpring 2018
GEOG 4210.001Urban GeographySpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 2170.001Culture, Environment and SocietyFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 1200.001Global SocietiesFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 5300.001Globalization, Conflict, and ResistanceSpring 2017 SPOT
GEOG 5210.001Seminar in Urban GeographySpring 2017 SPOT
GEOG 4210.001Urban GeographySpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 2170.001Culture, Environment and SocietyFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 1200.001Global SocietiesSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 5210.001Seminar in Urban GeographySpring 2016 SPOT
GEOG 4210.001Urban GeographySpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 2170.001Culture, Environment and SocietyFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 5300.001Globalization, Conflict, and ResistanceFall 2015 SPOT
GEOG 1200.001Global SocietiesSpring 2015 Syllabus
GEOG 2170.001Culture, Environment and SocietyFall 2014 Syllabus
GEOG 1200.001World Regional GeographySpring 2014 Syllabus
GEOG 3100.001Geography of the United States and CanadaFall 2013 Syllabus

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Chatterjee, I. (2021). Alt-Right Movement: Dissecting Racism, Patriarchy and Anti-immigrant Xenophobia Sage (2021).
  • Chatterjee, I. (2016). Spectacular Cities: Religion, Landscapes, and the Globalization of Theme park urbanism. Oxford.
  • Chatterjee, I. (2014). Displacement, Revolution, and the New Urban Condition: Theories and Case studies.
  • Book Chapter

  • Chatterjee, I. (2022). From Species life to Nature’s outside: New Town ‘Green City,’ Kolkata. In The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment (pp. 354-371), edited by McCusker, b., Ahmed, W., Ramutsindela, M., and Solis, P. Routledge: London, New York..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2020). Overcoming the Limits of Theory: Conceptual musings on displacement in Beyond Housing Displacement: Conceptual and methodological issues edited by Beaten, G., Persdotter, M., Pull
, E., Listerborn, C. Routledge.. Beyond Housing Displacement: Conceptual and methodological issues. Routledge.
  • Chatterjee, I. (2019). Radical Globalization, Antipode. Keywords in Radical Geographical Thought. Antipode.
  • Ahmed, W., Chatterjee, I. (2016). 2016 Antinomies of the Indian State. In Handbook of Critical Political Economy.
  • Pomeroy, G., Chatterjee, I. (2016). Cities of South Asia. Cities of the World.
  • Chatterjee, I. (2013). Social Conflict and the Neoliberal City: A case of Hindu-Muslim violence in India. In G. Shatkin (Ed.) Contesting the Indian City: Global Vision and the Politics of the Local. (This is a modified reprint)..
  • Chatterjee, I.; Pomeroy, George; Dutt, Ashok K. (2012). Cities of South Asia" in textbook titled: Cities of the World edited by Stanley Brunn, Maureen Hays-Mitchell and Don Zeigler..
  • Peet, R.; Chatterjee, I. and Hartwick, E.. (2011). Making sense of globalization. In Roger Lee, Linda McDowell, Peter Sunley, and Andrew Leyshon (Eds.) Compendium of Economic Geography, pp75-88..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2010). From Red Tape to Red Carpet? Violent narratives of neoliberalizing Ahmedabad. In Waquar Ahmed, Richard Peet, Amitabha Kundu (Eds.) New Economic Policy in India..
  • Book Review

  • Chatterjee, I. (2017). Shadows of a Sunbelt City: The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin,The AAG Review of Books, 5:3, 215-229.
  • Chatterjee, I. (2015). David Harvey’s Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. Review Essay in Human Geography.
  • Chatterjee, I. (2010). Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's City, by M. Butcher andS. Velayutham (Eds.) 2009 London: Routledge. Urban studies, vol. 47(3), March issue, pp.687-89..
  • Critical Review

  • Chatterjee, I. (2018). Structuring peace, situating violence: the everyday context of political economy. Political Geography. Political Geography. In review forum for Williams, P. Everyday Peace? Politics, Citizenship and Muslim lives in India, Philippa Williams, Wiley Blackwell (2015).
  • Encyclopedia Article

  • Chatterjee, I. (2005). A) Social contract, B) social Integration, C) Freedom versus choice. In T. Forsyth (Ed.)Encyclopedia of International Development (pp.635-636, 639-640, 259-260)..
  • Journal Article

  • Chatterjee, I. Quintessence of Urban India: Musings about social change but not limited to it. In Social Change Vol.53(2) June: 256-274..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2023). Chatterjee, I. (2023) First conversation. Human Geography, 16(1), pp.98-101.
  • Chatterjee, I. (2023). Marx’s ‘species being’ as an ontological revolution against the ‘green city/global city’ agenda: Two possible moments of reclaiming ‘species life. In Capitalism, Nature Socialism..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2023). Roll on That Day: A Dialectical Poetry. In Human Chatterjee, 16(1), pp.109-112.. Phil O' Keefe symposium, Human Geography.
  • Chatterjee, I. (2022). Marx Lies Within. In Human Geography.
  • Chatterjee, I. (2022). The Muslim: Islamophobia as Disembodiment..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2022). The Muslim: Islamophobia as Disembodiment. In Journal of Culture and Religion Vol21(4), pp 339-358..
  • Chatterjee, I., Ahmed, W. (2019). Dialectical materialism: Marx’s method in human geography?. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 18 (2) 364-393.
  • Chatterjee, I. (2015). Chatterjee, I. 2015. Beyond the Factory: Struggling with Class and Class Struggle in the Post-industrial Context.
  • Ahmed,W. and Chatterjee, I. (2013). Contradictory policies of neoliberalizing India, Human Geography, vol. 6(2).
  • Chatterjee, I. (2012). Feminism, the False Consciousness of Neoliberal Capitalism? in Gender, Place and Culture vol. 19(6), December, pp.790-809..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2012). How are they othered? Globalization, Identity and Violence in an Indian city in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 178(2), June, pp. 134-146..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2011). Governance as 'Performed,' Governance as 'Inscribed': New Urban Politics in Ahmedabad. Urban Studies vol. 48(12) September, pp. 2571-2590..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2011). Identifying Class and Classifying Identity in Understanding Violence in France and Ahmedabad in ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies vol. 10 (2), pp.232-253..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2010). Globalization and the Production of Difference: A case study of Neoliberal production of Hindu Nationalism in India. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 30(3), pp. 621-632.
  • Chatterjee, I. (2009). Deconstructing Vegas: A Class Project? Human Geography, Vol.2 (2), pp83-85.
  • Chatterjee, I. (2009). Social Conflict and the Neoliberal City: A case of Hindu-Muslim violence in India. In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers vol. 34, Issue 2, pp143-160..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2009). Violent Morphologies: Landscape, border and scale in Ahmedabad conflict. Geoforum, Vol.40 (6), November, pp. 103-113..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2008). Method in the Madness: A Social Justice Manifesto for Conflict Analysis. Human Geography, vol. 1(2), pp72-83..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2007). Packaging of identity and identifiable packages: A case study of women-commodity negotiation through product packaging. Gender Place and Culture, vol.14 (3), pp.293-316..
  • Chatterjee, I. (2006). Applying Models of Conflict Negotiation to the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Ahmedabad, India: Implications and Lessons. International Journal of Conflict Management, vol. 17 (2) pp.154-174..
  • Newspaper

  • Chatterjee, I. (2019). What is COVID 19 teaching us about being human? New Politics.
  • Other

  • Chatterjee, I. (2020). Precarious and Informal Work.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Chatterjee, I., "Undergraduate mentoring fellowship with Destinee Williams-Blackshear," University of North Texas, Funded. (2016 - 2016).
  • Chatterjee, I., "Undergraduate mentoring fellowship with Kara Conn," University of North Texas, Funded. (2016 - 2016).
  • Grant - Research

  • Chatterjee, I., "Charn Fund-UNT," University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2021).
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