Mahuya Bandyopadhyay
Biographic Data
| ID | 202104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahuya Bandyopadhyay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahuya |
| FAMILY NAME | Bandyopadhyay |
| SIGNATURE | BANDYOPADHYAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0564-0221 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Calling of Anthropology; Textures of the Ordinary
Das, Veena (2020); Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan; pp xii + 410, US $ 125 / Rs 1350
Carceral Entrapments
This article focuses on three overlapping layers. First, it illustrates multiple and incoherent expressions of the prison/street nexus in India through fieldwork in prison and a para (urban neighbourhood). Second, it argues that existing categories of understanding prison/street porousness - such as a 'deadly symbiosis', a continuum, liminality and a carceral state - are inadequate for explaining these expressions of the prison/street nexus in In…
Professor Sharit Bhowmik
Sensing prison climates
In December 2010 members of the Global Prisons Research Network (GPRN) met for a seminar entitled "Dissecting the 'Non-Western' Prison." The articles showcased in this thematic section were first presented there. This introduction proposes the notion of "prison climate" as a useful way of rethinking variations and similarities across prisons. This notion directs attention away from the prison "as such" to the prison "as is" and points to the fact…
Reform and everyday practice
International human rights regulations, norms for the treatment of prisoners and welfare state imperatives-institutionalised in numerous national and international regulatory bodies-have helped make the 'human element' an imposing factor in processes of imprisonment and punishment. Questions such as whether prisons exist to punish offenders or to care for them, heal their minds and bodies and reintegrate them into society, have become significant…
Competing Masculinities in a Prison
This article draws on fieldwork conducted in a central prison in Kolkata, India, which I experienced as an overwhelmingly male space. This ethnographic material demonstrates the nature of the male space and the practices through which male identities were made and defined within this space. I argue that the experience of the prison and incarceration is one in which the dominant norms of maleness are challenged. Through the processes of divestitur…
Competing Masculinities in a Prison
This article draws on fieldwork conducted in a central prison in Kolkata, India, which I experienced as an overwhelmingly male space. This ethnographic material demonstrates the nature of the male space and the practices through which male identities were made and defined within this space. I argue that the experience of the prison and incarceration is one in which the dominant norms of maleness are challenged. Through the processes of divestitur…
Sensing prison climates
In December 2010 members of the Global Prisons Research Network (GPRN) met for a seminar entitled "Dissecting the 'Non-Western' Prison." The articles showcased in this thematic section were first presented there. This introduction proposes the notion of "prison climate" as a useful way of rethinking variations and similarities across prisons. This notion directs attention away from the prison "as such" to the prison "as is" and points to the fact…
Carceral Entrapments
This article focuses on three overlapping layers. First, it illustrates multiple and incoherent expressions of the prison/street nexus in India through fieldwork in prison and a para (urban neighbourhood). Second, it argues that existing categories of understanding prison/street porousness - such as a 'deadly symbiosis', a continuum, liminality and a carceral state - are inadequate for explaining these expressions of the prison/street nexus in In…
Reform and everyday practice
International human rights regulations, norms for the treatment of prisoners and welfare state imperatives-institutionalised in numerous national and international regulatory bodies-have helped make the 'human element' an imposing factor in processes of imprisonment and punishment. Questions such as whether prisons exist to punish offenders or to care for them, heal their minds and bodies and reintegrate them into society, have become significant…
Competing Masculinities in a Prison
This article draws on fieldwork conducted in a central prison in Kolkata, India, which I experienced as an overwhelmingly male space. This ethnographic material demonstrates the nature of the male space and the practices through which male identities were made and defined within this space. I argue that the experience of the prison and incarceration is one in which the dominant norms of maleness are challenged. Through the processes of divestitur…
Reform and everyday practice
International human rights regulations, norms for the treatment of prisoners and welfare state imperatives-institutionalised in numerous national and international regulatory bodies-have helped make the 'human element' an imposing factor in processes of imprisonment and punishment. Questions such as whether prisons exist to punish offenders or to care for them, heal their minds and bodies and reintegrate them into society, have become significant…
Sensing prison climates
In December 2010 members of the Global Prisons Research Network (GPRN) met for a seminar entitled "Dissecting the 'Non-Western' Prison." The articles showcased in this thematic section were first presented there. This introduction proposes the notion of "prison climate" as a useful way of rethinking variations and similarities across prisons. This notion directs attention away from the prison "as such" to the prison "as is" and points to the fact…
Professor Sharit Bhowmik
Carceral Entrapments
This article focuses on three overlapping layers. First, it illustrates multiple and incoherent expressions of the prison/street nexus in India through fieldwork in prison and a para (urban neighbourhood). Second, it argues that existing categories of understanding prison/street porousness - such as a 'deadly symbiosis', a continuum, liminality and a carceral state - are inadequate for explaining these expressions of the prison/street nexus in In…
The Calling of Anthropology; Textures of the Ordinary
Das, Veena (2020); Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan; pp xii + 410, US $ 125 / Rs 1350
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Prison (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Imprisonment (2 works)