Swati Chattopadhyay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Swati Chattopadhyay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Swati |
| FAMILY NAME | Chattopadhyay |
| SIGNATURE | CHATTOPADHYAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2759-0659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra
Memorial as aegis
The Small Spaces of Empire
This article is an invitation to shift the analytic focus of empire to its small spaces. Bringing one aspect of the trade history of British India – the trade in European provisions and foodstuff – in conversation with the history of colonial architecture and Anglo-Indian foodways, I argue that small spaces might reveal cultural practices and attendant structures of power that are not evident when our attention remains lodged in dominant transact…
Small Spaces
Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people—the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities—who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architect…
The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture
The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century. New chapters by 36 contributors illustrated with over 140 …
Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture
A Discussion on the Global and Universal
October 01 2015 A Discussion on the Global and Universal Daniel Bertrand Monk, Daniel Bertrand Monk Daniel Bertrand Monk holds the George R. and Myra T. Cooley Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, where he is a professor of Geography and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. He is author of An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (Duke University Press, 2002) as well other studies on t…
Imagining the Digital Future of The Public Historian
The digital revolution has transformed research, exhibition, writing, review, participatory public engagement, and every other aspect of history practice. To consider the influence of these changes on The Public Historian, the journal has solicited the perspectives of six scholars with expertise on digital history to reflect on what the internet age affords TPH as a scholarly journal for the field of public history
Unlearning the City
"Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital component of urban life that is lived on the streets of cities and towns. Swati Chattopadhyay has written a nuanced argument for a new vocabulary of the city in Unlearning the City, proposing a way of analyzing the materiality of the urban that captures the ever-changing element of human experience.Urban lif…
Introduction
The edges of Indian cities have become nebulous, their morphology uncertain. They appear to extend for miles in Mumbai and Kolkata as an ‘assorted chaos’ of middle-class residences, slums and bazaars, blurring into smaller provincial towns. The latter seem to distinguish themselves through the sameness of their ‘taste for strident politics, violent films, ostentatious architecture, lewd music, rumour-mongering newspapers and overcooked food’. The…
Cities and peripheries
This article addresses a methodological problem of urban history faced with the current environmental crisis that urges us to think of humans as ‘geological’ agents. It suggests that the concept of the uncanny that pushes our understanding of spatio-temporality may be a useful device for approaching the methodological need to reconcile what we can and cannot experience/visualize. Viewing the mapping projects around Calcutta in the late eighteenth…
The Art of Auto-Mobility
The article examines the images and texts on privately operated public buses in contemporary Calcutta as a form of popular culture. By situating the vehicular art within the larger socio-political milieu of the city, this paper analyzes the manner in which the artwork acts as a unique mode of communication and everyday resistance. A close reading of the relation between the images and texts enables us to grasp the spatial logic by which subaltern…
Contours of the Obscene, Architectures of the Visible
Modern historical and political writing entails a visual imagination, of time, space and events, even when these do not use visual material as evidence. It operates within a specific visual paradig
Power in Print
War, Migration and Alienation in Colonial Calcutta
Journal Article War, Migration and Alienation in Colonial Calcutta: the Remaking of Muzaffar Ahmad Get access Suchetana Chattopadhyay Suchetana Chattopadhyay Suchetana Chattopadhyay is Lecturer in History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She completed her doctoral dissertation on Muzaffar Ahmad and the early socialist movement in Calcutta during the 1910s and the 1920s at SOAS, University of London, in 2005. Besides the histories of commun…
Representing Calcutta
Representing Calcutta is a spatial history of the colonial city, and addresses the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta. The book responds to two inter-related concerns about the city. First is the image of Calcutta as the worst case scenario of a Third World city -- the proverbial 'city of dreadful nights.' Second is the changing nature of the city’s public spaces -- the demise of certain forms of urban sociality that has…
Introduction
The papers in this issue address the ‘subaltern’ and the ‘popular’ as subjects and modes of enquiry into culture and history. These papers were first presented at the symposium, ‘The Subaltern and
Goods, Chattels and Sundry Items
One of the most common assumptions regarding the culture of British colonialism in India is that the Victorian ideal of separate spheres for men and women found an exaggerated expression in the separation of the colonial bungalow and camp/court. As marginal figures who often disturbed the masculine image and occupation of running an empire, the appropriate role of British women was limited to gracing the household, creating a semblance of 'home'.…
The Art of Auto-Mobility
The article examines the images and texts on privately operated public buses in contemporary Calcutta as a form of popular culture. By situating the vehicular art within the larger socio-political milieu of the city, this paper analyzes the manner in which the artwork acts as a unique mode of communication and everyday resistance. A close reading of the relation between the images and texts enables us to grasp the spatial logic by which subaltern…
Introduction
The papers in this issue address the ‘subaltern’ and the ‘popular’ as subjects and modes of enquiry into culture and history. These papers were first presented at the symposium, ‘The Subaltern and
Small Spaces
Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people—the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities—who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architect…
A Discussion on the Global and Universal
October 01 2015 A Discussion on the Global and Universal Daniel Bertrand Monk, Daniel Bertrand Monk Daniel Bertrand Monk holds the George R. and Myra T. Cooley Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, where he is a professor of Geography and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. He is author of An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (Duke University Press, 2002) as well other studies on t…
Goods, Chattels and Sundry Items
One of the most common assumptions regarding the culture of British colonialism in India is that the Victorian ideal of separate spheres for men and women found an exaggerated expression in the separation of the colonial bungalow and camp/court. As marginal figures who often disturbed the masculine image and occupation of running an empire, the appropriate role of British women was limited to gracing the household, creating a semblance of 'home'.…
The Small Spaces of Empire
This article is an invitation to shift the analytic focus of empire to its small spaces. Bringing one aspect of the trade history of British India – the trade in European provisions and foodstuff – in conversation with the history of colonial architecture and Anglo-Indian foodways, I argue that small spaces might reveal cultural practices and attendant structures of power that are not evident when our attention remains lodged in dominant transact…
Contours of the Obscene, Architectures of the Visible
Modern historical and political writing entails a visual imagination, of time, space and events, even when these do not use visual material as evidence. It operates within a specific visual paradig
War, Migration and Alienation in Colonial Calcutta
Journal Article War, Migration and Alienation in Colonial Calcutta: the Remaking of Muzaffar Ahmad Get access Suchetana Chattopadhyay Suchetana Chattopadhyay Suchetana Chattopadhyay is Lecturer in History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She completed her doctoral dissertation on Muzaffar Ahmad and the early socialist movement in Calcutta during the 1910s and the 1920s at SOAS, University of London, in 2005. Besides the histories of commun…
Goods, Chattels and Sundry Items
One of the most common assumptions regarding the culture of British colonialism in India is that the Victorian ideal of separate spheres for men and women found an exaggerated expression in the separation of the colonial bungalow and camp/court. As marginal figures who often disturbed the masculine image and occupation of running an empire, the appropriate role of British women was limited to gracing the household, creating a semblance of 'home'.…
Representing Calcutta
Representing Calcutta is a spatial history of the colonial city, and addresses the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta. The book responds to two inter-related concerns about the city. First is the image of Calcutta as the worst case scenario of a Third World city -- the proverbial 'city of dreadful nights.' Second is the changing nature of the city’s public spaces -- the demise of certain forms of urban sociality that has…
Introduction
The papers in this issue address the ‘subaltern’ and the ‘popular’ as subjects and modes of enquiry into culture and history. These papers were first presented at the symposium, ‘The Subaltern and
War, Migration and Alienation in Colonial Calcutta
Journal Article War, Migration and Alienation in Colonial Calcutta: the Remaking of Muzaffar Ahmad Get access Suchetana Chattopadhyay Suchetana Chattopadhyay Suchetana Chattopadhyay is Lecturer in History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She completed her doctoral dissertation on Muzaffar Ahmad and the early socialist movement in Calcutta during the 1910s and the 1920s at SOAS, University of London, in 2005. Besides the histories of commun…
Contours of the Obscene, Architectures of the Visible
Modern historical and political writing entails a visual imagination, of time, space and events, even when these do not use visual material as evidence. It operates within a specific visual paradig
Power in Print
The Art of Auto-Mobility
The article examines the images and texts on privately operated public buses in contemporary Calcutta as a form of popular culture. By situating the vehicular art within the larger socio-political milieu of the city, this paper analyzes the manner in which the artwork acts as a unique mode of communication and everyday resistance. A close reading of the relation between the images and texts enables us to grasp the spatial logic by which subaltern…
Cities and peripheries
This article addresses a methodological problem of urban history faced with the current environmental crisis that urges us to think of humans as ‘geological’ agents. It suggests that the concept of the uncanny that pushes our understanding of spatio-temporality may be a useful device for approaching the methodological need to reconcile what we can and cannot experience/visualize. Viewing the mapping projects around Calcutta in the late eighteenth…
Unlearning the City
"Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital component of urban life that is lived on the streets of cities and towns. Swati Chattopadhyay has written a nuanced argument for a new vocabulary of the city in Unlearning the City, proposing a way of analyzing the materiality of the urban that captures the ever-changing element of human experience.Urban lif…
Introduction
The edges of Indian cities have become nebulous, their morphology uncertain. They appear to extend for miles in Mumbai and Kolkata as an ‘assorted chaos’ of middle-class residences, slums and bazaars, blurring into smaller provincial towns. The latter seem to distinguish themselves through the sameness of their ‘taste for strident politics, violent films, ostentatious architecture, lewd music, rumour-mongering newspapers and overcooked food’. The…
Imagining the Digital Future of The Public Historian
The digital revolution has transformed research, exhibition, writing, review, participatory public engagement, and every other aspect of history practice. To consider the influence of these changes on The Public Historian, the journal has solicited the perspectives of six scholars with expertise on digital history to reflect on what the internet age affords TPH as a scholarly journal for the field of public history
A Discussion on the Global and Universal
October 01 2015 A Discussion on the Global and Universal Daniel Bertrand Monk, Daniel Bertrand Monk Daniel Bertrand Monk holds the George R. and Myra T. Cooley Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, where he is a professor of Geography and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. He is author of An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict (Duke University Press, 2002) as well other studies on t…
The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture
The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century. New chapters by 36 contributors illustrated with over 140 …
Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture
Memorial as aegis
The Small Spaces of Empire
This article is an invitation to shift the analytic focus of empire to its small spaces. Bringing one aspect of the trade history of British India – the trade in European provisions and foodstuff – in conversation with the history of colonial architecture and Anglo-Indian foodways, I argue that small spaces might reveal cultural practices and attendant structures of power that are not evident when our attention remains lodged in dominant transact…
Small Spaces
Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people—the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities—who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architect…
The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra
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