Diti Bhattacharya
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diti Bhattacharya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diti |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhattacharya |
| SIGNATURE | BHATTACHARYA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5587-7235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
More-Than-Human Sport and Movement
What are creative more-than-human methodologies, and why might qualitative sport and movement scholars be turning to such approaches? This curated dialogue draws upon an online seminar featuring Diti Bhattacharya, Clifton Evers, Lyndsay Hayhurst, and Emma Rich. In this article, the scholars engage in conversation with each other and the curators (Marianne Clark, Allison Jeffrey, Pirkko Markula, and Holly Thorpe) about the creative possibilities o…
A feminist approach to sporting mobilities
This article asks, what can feminist theories of affect bring to sport mobilities? As a conceptual innovation, we demonstrate the possibilities that opens up through feminist affect theory and in doing so provide another way of thinking about sport mobilities. Using an example of research with women refugees involved in a sport program, we present a multi-scalar approach to mobilities that can account for the nuance, ethics, and intimacies of mov…
Geographies of awkward encounters
This article considers how women register, experience and negotiate awkward affects through active leisure practices in spaces of fitness and physical activities. Using a feminist new materialist perspective and geographies of affect, it examines the value of dwelling on moments of awkwardness as an affective register that women experience within the context of their immediate materialities of fitness. Situated on the Gold Coast and Brisbane in S…
Mega-sport events, gender equity, and sport legacy planning
Mega-sporting event legacies have attracted academic interest and examination over the last two decades. The development of legacy plans has become central to sport event bidding, acting as a means of prioritizing outcomes by governing bodies and host governments. Through legacy plans, mega-sport events ‘perform’ as catalysts for change throughout various phases. Drawing on an appraisal of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games official l…
Colonial landscapes and violent silences
Yearning for care
From Discordance to Assemblages
This article examines two cities of discordant colonial heritage in India—Chandernagore, a former French colony in West Bengal, and Panjim, a former Portuguese territory in Goa—to demonstrate how these cities experience their colonial identities through heritage spaces. It explores the ways in which the museums and public spaces of these cities use memory and materiality to perform discordant colonial pasts which differ from the dominant narrativ…
On orientations and adjustments
This paper explores the differences in the ways we orientate, adjust and create new trajectories as we walk, wander and wayfind. Drawing on lived experiences of walking together and separately through inner-city walking paths in Brisbane – Meanjin, we offer a conceptual exploration of the relationship of unplanned movement, spontaneity and affective registers of mobility. Discussing specific glimpses and accounts of our walking, and moments where…
Discordant Colonialism
In this article, we analyse Indian museum practices that pertain to the representation of the nation’s liberation and independence from colonial occupation. We draw specifically on a comparative analysis of museums in the former Portuguese and French territories of India. These territories remained colonies for a number of years after the British were forced from India, raising questions of how contemporary museums represent these alternative nar…
On orientations and adjustments
This paper explores the differences in the ways we orientate, adjust and create new trajectories as we walk, wander and wayfind. Drawing on lived experiences of walking together and separately through inner-city walking paths in Brisbane – Meanjin, we offer a conceptual exploration of the relationship of unplanned movement, spontaneity and affective registers of mobility. Discussing specific glimpses and accounts of our walking, and moments where…
Mega-sport events, gender equity, and sport legacy planning
Mega-sporting event legacies have attracted academic interest and examination over the last two decades. The development of legacy plans has become central to sport event bidding, acting as a means of prioritizing outcomes by governing bodies and host governments. Through legacy plans, mega-sport events ‘perform’ as catalysts for change throughout various phases. Drawing on an appraisal of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games official l…
Yearning for care
Discordant Colonialism
In this article, we analyse Indian museum practices that pertain to the representation of the nation’s liberation and independence from colonial occupation. We draw specifically on a comparative analysis of museums in the former Portuguese and French territories of India. These territories remained colonies for a number of years after the British were forced from India, raising questions of how contemporary museums represent these alternative nar…
On orientations and adjustments
This paper explores the differences in the ways we orientate, adjust and create new trajectories as we walk, wander and wayfind. Drawing on lived experiences of walking together and separately through inner-city walking paths in Brisbane – Meanjin, we offer a conceptual exploration of the relationship of unplanned movement, spontaneity and affective registers of mobility. Discussing specific glimpses and accounts of our walking, and moments where…
Discordant Colonialism
In this article, we analyse Indian museum practices that pertain to the representation of the nation’s liberation and independence from colonial occupation. We draw specifically on a comparative analysis of museums in the former Portuguese and French territories of India. These territories remained colonies for a number of years after the British were forced from India, raising questions of how contemporary museums represent these alternative nar…
From Discordance to Assemblages
This article examines two cities of discordant colonial heritage in India—Chandernagore, a former French colony in West Bengal, and Panjim, a former Portuguese territory in Goa—to demonstrate how these cities experience their colonial identities through heritage spaces. It explores the ways in which the museums and public spaces of these cities use memory and materiality to perform discordant colonial pasts which differ from the dominant narrativ…
Yearning for care
Mega-sport events, gender equity, and sport legacy planning
Mega-sporting event legacies have attracted academic interest and examination over the last two decades. The development of legacy plans has become central to sport event bidding, acting as a means of prioritizing outcomes by governing bodies and host governments. Through legacy plans, mega-sport events ‘perform’ as catalysts for change throughout various phases. Drawing on an appraisal of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games official l…
Colonial landscapes and violent silences
More-Than-Human Sport and Movement
What are creative more-than-human methodologies, and why might qualitative sport and movement scholars be turning to such approaches? This curated dialogue draws upon an online seminar featuring Diti Bhattacharya, Clifton Evers, Lyndsay Hayhurst, and Emma Rich. In this article, the scholars engage in conversation with each other and the curators (Marianne Clark, Allison Jeffrey, Pirkko Markula, and Holly Thorpe) about the creative possibilities o…
A feminist approach to sporting mobilities
This article asks, what can feminist theories of affect bring to sport mobilities? As a conceptual innovation, we demonstrate the possibilities that opens up through feminist affect theory and in doing so provide another way of thinking about sport mobilities. Using an example of research with women refugees involved in a sport program, we present a multi-scalar approach to mobilities that can account for the nuance, ethics, and intimacies of mov…
Geographies of awkward encounters
This article considers how women register, experience and negotiate awkward affects through active leisure practices in spaces of fitness and physical activities. Using a feminist new materialist perspective and geographies of affect, it examines the value of dwelling on moments of awkwardness as an affective register that women experience within the context of their immediate materialities of fitness. Situated on the Gold Coast and Brisbane in S…
Sociology (6 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Geography (3 works)