Nilanjana Mukherjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3881056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nilanjana Mukherjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nilanjana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukherjee |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHERJEE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6631-0616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cartographic Anxiety on the Thar Desert
The spatiality of the Tanot Mata Temple, in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, places it at the crossroads of religion and nationalism. Firstly, its location near the international border makes it a marker of territorial integrity as well as the bearer of a 'cartographic anxiety' which aspires to keep the periphery intact and unharmed. Secondly, its spatiality is defined in terms of majoritarian religious beliefs which have been shaped in postcolon…
The (Un)governable City
Delhi has always been a crucible of political disquiet, and the seat of manifold state and aesthetic desires to order, control and design the city. Even at this moment, we find ourselves before a ubiquitous impulse to change the appearance of the city through the Central Vista Project which proposes to cater to needs of increase in government office space. There are layers to the city and obvious enough, it is not monolithic. The vestiges and arc…
Mapping India
This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It traces the transitions and transformations during this period through art, literature, music, theatre, satire, textiles, regime changes, personal histories and migration. The essays in the volume examine historical events and movements which questioned the traditional parameters of identity and forged a new direction for the people and the nation. Vie…
Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason
This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalisation of cultural artefacts such as landscape paintings, travel literature and cartography, as spatial practices overtly carrying scientific truth claims, to materially produce artificial spaces that reinforced power relations. It sheds light on the primary dominance of cartographic …
Mapping India
Designing for sustainable outcomes
This paper uses a policy design perspective with which to examine the formulation of programmes that are based on the concept of co-production. In doing so, the paper reviews essential literature on policy design and co-production to identify that a limited focus on outcomes and specifically how behavioural change can make these outcomes sustainable represents a major gap in the current discussion of co-production. We firstly argue that in design…
Drawing Roads, Building Empire
Studies of colonial travel and mobility reveal how spaces are constructed through practices which select and link sites together, drawing fresh itineraries and re-organising places. A series of lithographic sketches published in 1830 as Sketches of the New Road in a Journey from Calcutta to Gyah, drawn by Charles D'Oyly (1781–1845) on his journey from Calcutta to Gaya, captures the tacit colonial imbrication of notions of travel, circulation, lan…
A desideratum more sublime
The advent of advanced European survey techniques and practices in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries fashioned and formatted landscapes according to a new order of things giving rise to synthetic geo-political realities. In adopting a comparative approach to study the cartographically energized representational strategies deployed in both the British home ground and its overseas colony, conclusive connections can be drawn between…
Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason
This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalisation of cultural artefacts such as landscape paintings, travel literature and cartography, as spatial practices overtly carrying scientific truth claims, to materially produce artificial spaces that reinforced power relations. It sheds light on the primary dominance of cartographic …
Designing for sustainable outcomes
This paper uses a policy design perspective with which to examine the formulation of programmes that are based on the concept of co-production. In doing so, the paper reviews essential literature on policy design and co-production to identify that a limited focus on outcomes and specifically how behavioural change can make these outcomes sustainable represents a major gap in the current discussion of co-production. We firstly argue that in design…
A desideratum more sublime
The advent of advanced European survey techniques and practices in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries fashioned and formatted landscapes according to a new order of things giving rise to synthetic geo-political realities. In adopting a comparative approach to study the cartographically energized representational strategies deployed in both the British home ground and its overseas colony, conclusive connections can be drawn between…
Drawing Roads, Building Empire
Studies of colonial travel and mobility reveal how spaces are constructed through practices which select and link sites together, drawing fresh itineraries and re-organising places. A series of lithographic sketches published in 1830 as Sketches of the New Road in a Journey from Calcutta to Gyah, drawn by Charles D'Oyly (1781–1845) on his journey from Calcutta to Gaya, captures the tacit colonial imbrication of notions of travel, circulation, lan…
Designing for sustainable outcomes
This paper uses a policy design perspective with which to examine the formulation of programmes that are based on the concept of co-production. In doing so, the paper reviews essential literature on policy design and co-production to identify that a limited focus on outcomes and specifically how behavioural change can make these outcomes sustainable represents a major gap in the current discussion of co-production. We firstly argue that in design…
Mapping India
Mapping India
This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It traces the transitions and transformations during this period through art, literature, music, theatre, satire, textiles, regime changes, personal histories and migration. The essays in the volume examine historical events and movements which questioned the traditional parameters of identity and forged a new direction for the people and the nation. Vie…
Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason
This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalisation of cultural artefacts such as landscape paintings, travel literature and cartography, as spatial practices overtly carrying scientific truth claims, to materially produce artificial spaces that reinforced power relations. It sheds light on the primary dominance of cartographic …
The (Un)governable City
Delhi has always been a crucible of political disquiet, and the seat of manifold state and aesthetic desires to order, control and design the city. Even at this moment, we find ourselves before a ubiquitous impulse to change the appearance of the city through the Central Vista Project which proposes to cater to needs of increase in government office space. There are layers to the city and obvious enough, it is not monolithic. The vestiges and arc…
Cartographic Anxiety on the Thar Desert
The spatiality of the Tanot Mata Temple, in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, places it at the crossroads of religion and nationalism. Firstly, its location near the international border makes it a marker of territorial integrity as well as the bearer of a 'cartographic anxiety' which aspires to keep the periphery intact and unharmed. Secondly, its spatiality is defined in terms of majoritarian religious beliefs which have been shaped in postcolon…
Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works)