Ranu Basu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ranu Basu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ranu |
| FAMILY NAME | Basu |
| SIGNATURE | BASU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Intellectual lessons from Dr Aleida Guevara (Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara's daughter) and a special meeting with Aleida March (Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara's wife) – Conversations on education, revolution, and soci…
On 2 May 2024, a special meeting was arranged with Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara's daughter, Dr Aleida Guevara at their home in Havana which was followed at the end with a greeting from Che's wife Aleida March. The authors (migrant-settler in Canada originally from India and Cuban friend/colleague who had arranged for the visit – both Human Geographers) along with three Brazilian friends (Doctor, Dentist, and Sociologist) were invited. For more than 3 ho…
The Anti‐Imperialist Geopolitical Suburb? Caimanera as Guantánamo’s Revolutionary Frontier
The spatialities of anti‐imperialist praxis are increasingly fraught with innumerable challenges that require complex epistemological considerations. As borderless US‐based militarisation regimes proliferate globally at an unprecedented pace, embedding their political‐territorial control more securely through state and logics of neo‐imperial extractive capitalism, they have prevailed through the strategic discourse of “progress, security and free…
Contesting Settler Colonial Accounts: Temporality, Migration and Place-Making in Scarborough, Ontario
The paper considers how the logic of settler colonialism, the active and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples, shapes scholarship on migration, race and citizenship in Canada. It draws on the insights of settler colonial theory and critiques of methodological nationalism to do so. The concept of differential inclusion and assemblages methodology are proposed as a way to understand the relationship between Indigeneity and migration in a set…
Integrative multiplicity through suburban realities: Exploring diversity through public spaces in Scarborough
Questions of “integration” are normatively assumed to promote particular ideals of the multicultural city and lead to a “settlement” culture that bodes well with the hegemonic majority. This paper, however, questions the concept from an alternative perspective – that is, it aims to explore how “integration” is imagined and understood by displaced migrants through the contextual specificities of multiple and peripheral “public spaces” – defined in…
Multiplying spaces of subalterity in education: From ideological realms to strategizing outcomes
In recent years, the terrain of subalterity in education has multiplied in heterogeneous ways accentuated through the project of neoliberalism. Unpacking these socially, politically, or ideologically—through three contradictory imperatives—reveals intersecting spaces of marginality, hegemonic discourses, and complicated outcomes related to the governmentality of educational rights. However, despite serious efforts, the relentless task of contesti…
Critical Geographies of Education: Introduction to the Special Issue
Settlement and Schooling: Unique Circumstances of Refugees and Forced Migrants in Post-War Toronto Suburbs
This paper explores the possibilities of discovering, sharing, and transforming school-community linkages through proactive outreach programs that are of particular relevance to public elementary schools catering to a large refugee and immigrant population. The authors argue that community-school linkages, as currently understood and discussed in the literature, are primarily focused on unidirectional relations, but certainly have the potential o…
Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis
Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original perspective within the social sciences, and this volume gives readers for the first time a set of studies exemplifying what applied phronesis looks like in practice. The reflexive analysis of values and power gives new meaning to the impact of research on polic…
Multiculturalism Through Multilingualism in Schools: Emerging Places of “Integration” in Toronto
School spaces are imbued with meaning and foster sensibilities of justice, belonging, and identity from an early beginning. Aside from the educational mandate of schools, they are places where the exercise of neighborhood integration and the fostering of civil society are explored. In multicultural societies, publicly funded schools are also institutional places where state ideologies of social cohesion are apparent. Recent neoliberalization of e…
Negotiating Acts of Citizenship in an Era of Neoliberal Reform: The Game of School Closures
In Ontario, the landscape of public education has changed quite rapidly during the past decade. Critics argue that neoliberal policies concerning privatization and marketization in the education system have produced different outcomes for different groups. One of the most sensitive issues during these years has been the closure of schools. Over three years (1999-2002) nearly 200 schools were closed in Ontario. These many changes, however, have no…
The rationalization of neoliberalism in Ontario's public education system, 1995–2000
Active and Dormant Neighborhoods: A Look at the Geographical Response to School-Based Care
The purpose of this article is to construct a locality-based model of collective action useful for planners in understanding why collective action of any kind arises within the geographical boundaries of a residential terrain and how this in turn affects discretionary components of public service provision. The model is based on the premise that collective action is the cause and consequence of the local externality itself, the perceived needs of…
The rationalization of neoliberalism in Ontario's public education system, 1995–2000
Negotiating Acts of Citizenship in an Era of Neoliberal Reform: The Game of School Closures
In Ontario, the landscape of public education has changed quite rapidly during the past decade. Critics argue that neoliberal policies concerning privatization and marketization in the education system have produced different outcomes for different groups. One of the most sensitive issues during these years has been the closure of schools. Over three years (1999-2002) nearly 200 schools were closed in Ontario. These many changes, however, have no…
Critical Geographies of Education: Introduction to the Special Issue
Integrative multiplicity through suburban realities: Exploring diversity through public spaces in Scarborough
Questions of “integration” are normatively assumed to promote particular ideals of the multicultural city and lead to a “settlement” culture that bodes well with the hegemonic majority. This paper, however, questions the concept from an alternative perspective – that is, it aims to explore how “integration” is imagined and understood by displaced migrants through the contextual specificities of multiple and peripheral “public spaces” – defined in…
Multiplying spaces of subalterity in education: From ideological realms to strategizing outcomes
In recent years, the terrain of subalterity in education has multiplied in heterogeneous ways accentuated through the project of neoliberalism. Unpacking these socially, politically, or ideologically—through three contradictory imperatives—reveals intersecting spaces of marginality, hegemonic discourses, and complicated outcomes related to the governmentality of educational rights. However, despite serious efforts, the relentless task of contesti…
Contesting Settler Colonial Accounts: Temporality, Migration and Place-Making in Scarborough, Ontario
The paper considers how the logic of settler colonialism, the active and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples, shapes scholarship on migration, race and citizenship in Canada. It draws on the insights of settler colonial theory and critiques of methodological nationalism to do so. The concept of differential inclusion and assemblages methodology are proposed as a way to understand the relationship between Indigeneity and migration in a set…
Settlement and Schooling: Unique Circumstances of Refugees and Forced Migrants in Post-War Toronto Suburbs
This paper explores the possibilities of discovering, sharing, and transforming school-community linkages through proactive outreach programs that are of particular relevance to public elementary schools catering to a large refugee and immigrant population. The authors argue that community-school linkages, as currently understood and discussed in the literature, are primarily focused on unidirectional relations, but certainly have the potential o…
Multiculturalism Through Multilingualism in Schools: Emerging Places of “Integration” in Toronto
School spaces are imbued with meaning and foster sensibilities of justice, belonging, and identity from an early beginning. Aside from the educational mandate of schools, they are places where the exercise of neighborhood integration and the fostering of civil society are explored. In multicultural societies, publicly funded schools are also institutional places where state ideologies of social cohesion are apparent. Recent neoliberalization of e…
Active and Dormant Neighborhoods: A Look at the Geographical Response to School-Based Care
The purpose of this article is to construct a locality-based model of collective action useful for planners in understanding why collective action of any kind arises within the geographical boundaries of a residential terrain and how this in turn affects discretionary components of public service provision. The model is based on the premise that collective action is the cause and consequence of the local externality itself, the perceived needs of…
Active and Dormant Neighborhoods: A Look at the Geographical Response to School-Based Care
The purpose of this article is to construct a locality-based model of collective action useful for planners in understanding why collective action of any kind arises within the geographical boundaries of a residential terrain and how this in turn affects discretionary components of public service provision. The model is based on the premise that collective action is the cause and consequence of the local externality itself, the perceived needs of…
The rationalization of neoliberalism in Ontario's public education system, 1995–2000
Negotiating Acts of Citizenship in an Era of Neoliberal Reform: The Game of School Closures
In Ontario, the landscape of public education has changed quite rapidly during the past decade. Critics argue that neoliberal policies concerning privatization and marketization in the education system have produced different outcomes for different groups. One of the most sensitive issues during these years has been the closure of schools. Over three years (1999-2002) nearly 200 schools were closed in Ontario. These many changes, however, have no…
Multiculturalism Through Multilingualism in Schools: Emerging Places of “Integration” in Toronto
School spaces are imbued with meaning and foster sensibilities of justice, belonging, and identity from an early beginning. Aside from the educational mandate of schools, they are places where the exercise of neighborhood integration and the fostering of civil society are explored. In multicultural societies, publicly funded schools are also institutional places where state ideologies of social cohesion are apparent. Recent neoliberalization of e…
Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis
Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original perspective within the social sciences, and this volume gives readers for the first time a set of studies exemplifying what applied phronesis looks like in practice. The reflexive analysis of values and power gives new meaning to the impact of research on polic…
Multiplying spaces of subalterity in education: From ideological realms to strategizing outcomes
In recent years, the terrain of subalterity in education has multiplied in heterogeneous ways accentuated through the project of neoliberalism. Unpacking these socially, politically, or ideologically—through three contradictory imperatives—reveals intersecting spaces of marginality, hegemonic discourses, and complicated outcomes related to the governmentality of educational rights. However, despite serious efforts, the relentless task of contesti…
Critical Geographies of Education: Introduction to the Special Issue
Settlement and Schooling: Unique Circumstances of Refugees and Forced Migrants in Post-War Toronto Suburbs
This paper explores the possibilities of discovering, sharing, and transforming school-community linkages through proactive outreach programs that are of particular relevance to public elementary schools catering to a large refugee and immigrant population. The authors argue that community-school linkages, as currently understood and discussed in the literature, are primarily focused on unidirectional relations, but certainly have the potential o…
Integrative multiplicity through suburban realities: Exploring diversity through public spaces in Scarborough
Questions of “integration” are normatively assumed to promote particular ideals of the multicultural city and lead to a “settlement” culture that bodes well with the hegemonic majority. This paper, however, questions the concept from an alternative perspective – that is, it aims to explore how “integration” is imagined and understood by displaced migrants through the contextual specificities of multiple and peripheral “public spaces” – defined in…
Contesting Settler Colonial Accounts: Temporality, Migration and Place-Making in Scarborough, Ontario
The paper considers how the logic of settler colonialism, the active and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples, shapes scholarship on migration, race and citizenship in Canada. It draws on the insights of settler colonial theory and critiques of methodological nationalism to do so. The concept of differential inclusion and assemblages methodology are proposed as a way to understand the relationship between Indigeneity and migration in a set…
The Anti‐Imperialist Geopolitical Suburb? Caimanera as Guantánamo’s Revolutionary Frontier
The spatialities of anti‐imperialist praxis are increasingly fraught with innumerable challenges that require complex epistemological considerations. As borderless US‐based militarisation regimes proliferate globally at an unprecedented pace, embedding their political‐territorial control more securely through state and logics of neo‐imperial extractive capitalism, they have prevailed through the strategic discourse of “progress, security and free…
Intellectual lessons from Dr Aleida Guevara (Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara's daughter) and a special meeting with Aleida March (Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara's wife) – Conversations on education, revolution, and soci…
On 2 May 2024, a special meeting was arranged with Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara's daughter, Dr Aleida Guevara at their home in Havana which was followed at the end with a greeting from Che's wife Aleida March. The authors (migrant-settler in Canada originally from India and Cuban friend/colleague who had arranged for the visit – both Human Geographers) along with three Brazilian friends (Doctor, Dentist, and Sociologist) were invited. For more than 3 ho…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Ideology (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)