Uddipana Goswami
Biographic Data
| ID | 3856367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uddipana Goswami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uddipana |
| FAMILY NAME | Goswami |
| SIGNATURE | GOSWAMI U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5937-0992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Theory as Embodied Practice in the Classroom
A feminist academic of color who was, until recently, located in the Global South and whose practice and scholarship are also situated there, Dr. Goswami was in a unique position in Fall 2023 in her new classroom in the US South where she was teaching critical ethnography and autoethnography as advanced qualitative research methods to a domestically and internationally diverse student body. Most of the students, including Iye Ogbe, her collaborat…
Women, environment and armed conflicts in Assam
Women, especially in the Indigenous and ethnic communities of Assam and Northeast India, have shared an intricate relationship with nature. This relationship was disrupted by the human-made conflicts that ravaged the region for decades. Not only did these conflicts – ethno-nationalist in nature, for the most part – victimize women directly by subjecting them to violence and taking away their agency, but they also indirectly impacted them by adver…
Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries
Body, Bones, and All
A reflection on the different forms that violence against women takes in militarized societies like that in Assam in Northeast India. A young girl living with an abusive father is married off to an abusive husband. Like other women living with quotidian violence, she devises coping mechanisms: often the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred. The unbearable burden of a life abused (and its grim ending) can be made bearable only through …
Home, Away from Home
This paper is a gendered analysis of structures and cultures of violence that characterize both public political and private domestic spaces in Northeast India, one of the most sustained conflict zones in South Asia. It links the violence at home with the political violence generated by the idea of ethnic homelands. While illustrating how domestic and political violences intersect, the paper questions the very idea of home as safe haven, or refug…
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Idp Livelihoods
IDP LIVELIHOODS: Enabling Idp Livelihoods in Western Assam: Nobody's Responsibility Get access Uddipana Goswami Uddipana Goswami Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 60–68, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi0125 Published: 01 June 2006
Theory as Embodied Practice in the Classroom
A feminist academic of color who was, until recently, located in the Global South and whose practice and scholarship are also situated there, Dr. Goswami was in a unique position in Fall 2023 in her new classroom in the US South where she was teaching critical ethnography and autoethnography as advanced qualitative research methods to a domestically and internationally diverse student body. Most of the students, including Iye Ogbe, her collaborat…
Idp Livelihoods
IDP LIVELIHOODS: Enabling Idp Livelihoods in Western Assam: Nobody's Responsibility Get access Uddipana Goswami Uddipana Goswami Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 60–68, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi0125 Published: 01 June 2006
Colors
Home, Away from Home
This paper is a gendered analysis of structures and cultures of violence that characterize both public political and private domestic spaces in Northeast India, one of the most sustained conflict zones in South Asia. It links the violence at home with the political violence generated by the idea of ethnic homelands. While illustrating how domestic and political violences intersect, the paper questions the very idea of home as safe haven, or refug…
Body, Bones, and All
A reflection on the different forms that violence against women takes in militarized societies like that in Assam in Northeast India. A young girl living with an abusive father is married off to an abusive husband. Like other women living with quotidian violence, she devises coping mechanisms: often the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred. The unbearable burden of a life abused (and its grim ending) can be made bearable only through …
Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries
Women, environment and armed conflicts in Assam
Women, especially in the Indigenous and ethnic communities of Assam and Northeast India, have shared an intricate relationship with nature. This relationship was disrupted by the human-made conflicts that ravaged the region for decades. Not only did these conflicts – ethno-nationalist in nature, for the most part – victimize women directly by subjecting them to violence and taking away their agency, but they also indirectly impacted them by adver…
Theory as Embodied Practice in the Classroom
A feminist academic of color who was, until recently, located in the Global South and whose practice and scholarship are also situated there, Dr. Goswami was in a unique position in Fall 2023 in her new classroom in the US South where she was teaching critical ethnography and autoethnography as advanced qualitative research methods to a domestically and internationally diverse student body. Most of the students, including Iye Ogbe, her collaborat…
Sociology (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works)