Ipsita Chatterjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ipsita Chatterjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ipsita |
| FAMILY NAME | Chatterjee |
| SIGNATURE | CHATTERJEE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1253-378X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Eco-City dream
The concept of Green Cities/Eco Cities has emerged as a dominant urban imagination that is seen as an ecological solution to environmental crisis without compromising economic expansion, especially, through green investments. This article critically examines Green city policies in Austin and Dallas revealing, firstly, the gaps between sustainability policy discourses and the actual lived experiences, and secondly, the class-based and racially unj…
Enduring relevance of Elaine Hartwick's commodity chain approach
Quintessence of Urban India
Urbanisation is a ‘constant’ process and cities will account for all future world population growth. What does it mean for people who find these spatio-temporal existences entrapping and limiting? This article reflects upon the urban condition of India from the imaginative geographic perspectives (to use Edward Said’s concept) of working people, labour, informal proletariat, the slum-dweller. In order to do so, this article explores the ‘urban’ o…
Marx's "Species Being" as an Ontological Revolution Against the "Green City/Global City" Agenda
Cities are experiencing continuous growth in population and must straddle a delicate balance between nurturing nature and providing livelihood. In that context, the contemporary urban agenda of sustainability must find creative ways of meeting global environmental expectations and resolving issues of displacement and rehabilitation of the poor. First, I use Marx’s concept of species being and estrangement to understand how sustainability discours…
First conversation
Roll on that day
Phil O’ Keefe’s Roll on that day is not just poetry, but a dialectical materialist rendition of reality. In this tribute, I refer to his poetry as “rendition,” rather than, interpretation. O’ Keefe renders nature, time, and space not as separate and discrete, but as a complete assemblage of hope and fear; second, he renders resources, labor, and landscape as simultaneously “nature(al)” and produced. “Rendering” as opposed to “interpreting” is O’K…
Marx lies within
This paper is a journey towards discovering the Marx that has been part of my intellectual existence. Here, I attempt to trace how and why Marx became manifest in my life and work. I identify four aspects of Marxism that I think, has influenced and enabled me most: Marxism as a way of teaching (pedagogy), Marxism as a way of life (critical humanism), Marxism as a way of combatting alienation (disrupting alienation), and Marxism as a way of compre…
Farewell Phil O’Keefe
The Muslim
Islamophobia is not just a fear of people ascribing to the religion of Islam, if that was the case simple religious conversions would erase hatred. In the world of surging Alt-Right movements, Islamophobia embodies racism, anti-migrant xenophobia, and orientalism. This article explores Alt-Right groups in the US and Europe, traces their ideological gurus, deconstructs political speeches, reports of rightwing think tanks to understand how Islamoph…
Shadows of a Sunbelt City
Beyond the factory
A dominant strand of literature adopting an identity-oriented approach towards industrial decline and post-Fordist flexibilisation argues that we are in a 'post-industrial' world in which class struggles and 'old' labour movements have been replaced by struggles around identity. This article examines working-class politics in the city of Ahmedabad, India, in the pre- and post-liberalisation phases in order to understand whether class struggle is …
Contradictory Policies of Neoliberalizing India
This paper examines the tensions and contradictions within the Indian state in its production of socio-economic policies. Pressure of global governance institutions, multinational corporations, and neoliberal states of the global North that back such corporations, have been instrumental in the production of -friendly economic policy in India. Additionally, in representing the interest of the national bourgeois, the Indian state has been receptive…
Feminism, the false consciousness of neoliberal capitalism? Informalization, fundamentalism, and women in an Indian city
Neoliberal globalization produces complex terrains of gender exploitation, with – some feminists argue – contradictory impacts on women. On the one hand, it subjects more women to increasing domination and devalorization by capital; on the other hand, women often ‘work’ globalization in ‘enabling’ ways. Informal jobs are often preferred sites for crafting economic emancipation and breaking away from patriarchy at home. Another body of literature …
How are they othered? Globalisation, identity and violence in an Indian city
The literature on conflict claims that there has been a resurgence of ethnic conflict in the era of globalisation. This paper attempts to investigate how local conflict may be influenced by processes of globalisation. The paper argues that in order to understand how globalisation may be implicated in local violent events, it is essential to develop a nuanced understanding of the complexities of global-local interaction in places. This paper also …
Governance as ‘Performed’, Governance as ‘Inscribed’
The ‘new urban politics’ literature highlights local entrepreneurialism as the basis of neo-liberal urbanism; this article adds to this literature by demonstrating how entrepreneurial neo-liberalism and ethno-religiosity are inflected in governance. Two concepts are proposed: ‘governance as performed’ (practice of ethno-religious entrepreneurialism) and ‘governance as inscribed’ (documenting policy through scientific planning). The dialectical in…
Globalization and the Production of Difference
The dominant discourse on neoliberal globalization emphasizes a shrinking of physical distance, barriers, and time lag through greater interactions, flows, and communications working toward an integrated global economy. The restructuring of global space through neoliberal economic policies, however, has not resulted in such integration. The nation and region have been reformulated around fragmented ideologies of religion and ethnicity, often conf…
Social conflict and the neoliberal city
In an era of globalisation the ‘global’ is very much implicated in the ‘local’. Local events like conflicts therefore need to be understood in the context of the dynamics of globalisation. This paper argues that neoliberal globalisation undergoes a thorough grounding in accordance with the pre‐existing socio‐cultural and economic specificities of places, which impact upon inter‐community alienation and conflict. Using four case studies from a Hin…
Violent morphologies
Method in the madness
Conflicts are complex, violent events. Justice becomes problematic when conflict research hesitates to identify oppressors. Such hesitation is due to an epistemological relativity that over-emphasizes situationality, preventing the researcher from taking sides with the oppressed. Over-emphasizing situationality often produces case-study oriented research that fails to go beyond case-specific micro causalities. I argue that heterogeneous micro eve…
Packaging of Identity and Identifiable Packages
In the age of post-Fordist flexible production, a consumer realizes her/his identity in part through the act of consumption. The visual aspect of commodity–consumer negotiation acquires importance, as commodities must be visually differentiated to attract the gaze of a particular consuming group. The act of visual differentiation is achieved through symbolic packaging, which creates a cognitive link between commodity and consumer. I draw from Bau…
Social conflict and the neoliberal city
In an era of globalisation the ‘global’ is very much implicated in the ‘local’. Local events like conflicts therefore need to be understood in the context of the dynamics of globalisation. This paper argues that neoliberal globalisation undergoes a thorough grounding in accordance with the pre‐existing socio‐cultural and economic specificities of places, which impact upon inter‐community alienation and conflict. Using four case studies from a Hin…
How are they othered? Globalisation, identity and violence in an Indian city
The literature on conflict claims that there has been a resurgence of ethnic conflict in the era of globalisation. This paper attempts to investigate how local conflict may be influenced by processes of globalisation. The paper argues that in order to understand how globalisation may be implicated in local violent events, it is essential to develop a nuanced understanding of the complexities of global-local interaction in places. This paper also …
Violent morphologies
Feminism, the false consciousness of neoliberal capitalism? Informalization, fundamentalism, and women in an Indian city
Neoliberal globalization produces complex terrains of gender exploitation, with – some feminists argue – contradictory impacts on women. On the one hand, it subjects more women to increasing domination and devalorization by capital; on the other hand, women often ‘work’ globalization in ‘enabling’ ways. Informal jobs are often preferred sites for crafting economic emancipation and breaking away from patriarchy at home. Another body of literature …
Governance as ‘Performed’, Governance as ‘Inscribed’
The ‘new urban politics’ literature highlights local entrepreneurialism as the basis of neo-liberal urbanism; this article adds to this literature by demonstrating how entrepreneurial neo-liberalism and ethno-religiosity are inflected in governance. Two concepts are proposed: ‘governance as performed’ (practice of ethno-religious entrepreneurialism) and ‘governance as inscribed’ (documenting policy through scientific planning). The dialectical in…
Beyond the factory
A dominant strand of literature adopting an identity-oriented approach towards industrial decline and post-Fordist flexibilisation argues that we are in a 'post-industrial' world in which class struggles and 'old' labour movements have been replaced by struggles around identity. This article examines working-class politics in the city of Ahmedabad, India, in the pre- and post-liberalisation phases in order to understand whether class struggle is …
The Muslim
Islamophobia is not just a fear of people ascribing to the religion of Islam, if that was the case simple religious conversions would erase hatred. In the world of surging Alt-Right movements, Islamophobia embodies racism, anti-migrant xenophobia, and orientalism. This article explores Alt-Right groups in the US and Europe, traces their ideological gurus, deconstructs political speeches, reports of rightwing think tanks to understand how Islamoph…
Packaging of Identity and Identifiable Packages
In the age of post-Fordist flexible production, a consumer realizes her/his identity in part through the act of consumption. The visual aspect of commodity–consumer negotiation acquires importance, as commodities must be visually differentiated to attract the gaze of a particular consuming group. The act of visual differentiation is achieved through symbolic packaging, which creates a cognitive link between commodity and consumer. I draw from Bau…
Marx's "Species Being" as an Ontological Revolution Against the "Green City/Global City" Agenda
Cities are experiencing continuous growth in population and must straddle a delicate balance between nurturing nature and providing livelihood. In that context, the contemporary urban agenda of sustainability must find creative ways of meeting global environmental expectations and resolving issues of displacement and rehabilitation of the poor. First, I use Marx’s concept of species being and estrangement to understand how sustainability discours…
Contradictory Policies of Neoliberalizing India
This paper examines the tensions and contradictions within the Indian state in its production of socio-economic policies. Pressure of global governance institutions, multinational corporations, and neoliberal states of the global North that back such corporations, have been instrumental in the production of -friendly economic policy in India. Additionally, in representing the interest of the national bourgeois, the Indian state has been receptive…
Packaging of Identity and Identifiable Packages
In the age of post-Fordist flexible production, a consumer realizes her/his identity in part through the act of consumption. The visual aspect of commodity–consumer negotiation acquires importance, as commodities must be visually differentiated to attract the gaze of a particular consuming group. The act of visual differentiation is achieved through symbolic packaging, which creates a cognitive link between commodity and consumer. I draw from Bau…
Method in the madness
Conflicts are complex, violent events. Justice becomes problematic when conflict research hesitates to identify oppressors. Such hesitation is due to an epistemological relativity that over-emphasizes situationality, preventing the researcher from taking sides with the oppressed. Over-emphasizing situationality often produces case-study oriented research that fails to go beyond case-specific micro causalities. I argue that heterogeneous micro eve…
Social conflict and the neoliberal city
In an era of globalisation the ‘global’ is very much implicated in the ‘local’. Local events like conflicts therefore need to be understood in the context of the dynamics of globalisation. This paper argues that neoliberal globalisation undergoes a thorough grounding in accordance with the pre‐existing socio‐cultural and economic specificities of places, which impact upon inter‐community alienation and conflict. Using four case studies from a Hin…
Violent morphologies
Globalization and the Production of Difference
The dominant discourse on neoliberal globalization emphasizes a shrinking of physical distance, barriers, and time lag through greater interactions, flows, and communications working toward an integrated global economy. The restructuring of global space through neoliberal economic policies, however, has not resulted in such integration. The nation and region have been reformulated around fragmented ideologies of religion and ethnicity, often conf…
Governance as ‘Performed’, Governance as ‘Inscribed’
The ‘new urban politics’ literature highlights local entrepreneurialism as the basis of neo-liberal urbanism; this article adds to this literature by demonstrating how entrepreneurial neo-liberalism and ethno-religiosity are inflected in governance. Two concepts are proposed: ‘governance as performed’ (practice of ethno-religious entrepreneurialism) and ‘governance as inscribed’ (documenting policy through scientific planning). The dialectical in…
Feminism, the false consciousness of neoliberal capitalism? Informalization, fundamentalism, and women in an Indian city
Neoliberal globalization produces complex terrains of gender exploitation, with – some feminists argue – contradictory impacts on women. On the one hand, it subjects more women to increasing domination and devalorization by capital; on the other hand, women often ‘work’ globalization in ‘enabling’ ways. Informal jobs are often preferred sites for crafting economic emancipation and breaking away from patriarchy at home. Another body of literature …
How are they othered? Globalisation, identity and violence in an Indian city
The literature on conflict claims that there has been a resurgence of ethnic conflict in the era of globalisation. This paper attempts to investigate how local conflict may be influenced by processes of globalisation. The paper argues that in order to understand how globalisation may be implicated in local violent events, it is essential to develop a nuanced understanding of the complexities of global-local interaction in places. This paper also …
Contradictory Policies of Neoliberalizing India
This paper examines the tensions and contradictions within the Indian state in its production of socio-economic policies. Pressure of global governance institutions, multinational corporations, and neoliberal states of the global North that back such corporations, have been instrumental in the production of -friendly economic policy in India. Additionally, in representing the interest of the national bourgeois, the Indian state has been receptive…
Beyond the factory
A dominant strand of literature adopting an identity-oriented approach towards industrial decline and post-Fordist flexibilisation argues that we are in a 'post-industrial' world in which class struggles and 'old' labour movements have been replaced by struggles around identity. This article examines working-class politics in the city of Ahmedabad, India, in the pre- and post-liberalisation phases in order to understand whether class struggle is …
Shadows of a Sunbelt City
Farewell Phil O’Keefe
The Muslim
Islamophobia is not just a fear of people ascribing to the religion of Islam, if that was the case simple religious conversions would erase hatred. In the world of surging Alt-Right movements, Islamophobia embodies racism, anti-migrant xenophobia, and orientalism. This article explores Alt-Right groups in the US and Europe, traces their ideological gurus, deconstructs political speeches, reports of rightwing think tanks to understand how Islamoph…
Marx lies within
This paper is a journey towards discovering the Marx that has been part of my intellectual existence. Here, I attempt to trace how and why Marx became manifest in my life and work. I identify four aspects of Marxism that I think, has influenced and enabled me most: Marxism as a way of teaching (pedagogy), Marxism as a way of life (critical humanism), Marxism as a way of combatting alienation (disrupting alienation), and Marxism as a way of compre…
First conversation
Roll on that day
Phil O’ Keefe’s Roll on that day is not just poetry, but a dialectical materialist rendition of reality. In this tribute, I refer to his poetry as “rendition,” rather than, interpretation. O’ Keefe renders nature, time, and space not as separate and discrete, but as a complete assemblage of hope and fear; second, he renders resources, labor, and landscape as simultaneously “nature(al)” and produced. “Rendering” as opposed to “interpreting” is O’K…
Quintessence of Urban India
Urbanisation is a ‘constant’ process and cities will account for all future world population growth. What does it mean for people who find these spatio-temporal existences entrapping and limiting? This article reflects upon the urban condition of India from the imaginative geographic perspectives (to use Edward Said’s concept) of working people, labour, informal proletariat, the slum-dweller. In order to do so, this article explores the ‘urban’ o…
Marx's "Species Being" as an Ontological Revolution Against the "Green City/Global City" Agenda
Cities are experiencing continuous growth in population and must straddle a delicate balance between nurturing nature and providing livelihood. In that context, the contemporary urban agenda of sustainability must find creative ways of meeting global environmental expectations and resolving issues of displacement and rehabilitation of the poor. First, I use Marx’s concept of species being and estrangement to understand how sustainability discours…
Enduring relevance of Elaine Hartwick's commodity chain approach
Eco-City dream
The concept of Green Cities/Eco Cities has emerged as a dominant urban imagination that is seen as an ecological solution to environmental crisis without compromising economic expansion, especially, through green investments. This article critically examines Green city policies in Austin and Dallas revealing, firstly, the gaps between sustainability policy discourses and the actual lived experiences, and secondly, the class-based and racially unj…
Sociology (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)