Mitu Sengupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3960134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mitu Sengupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mitu |
| FAMILY NAME | Sengupta |
| SIGNATURE | SENGUPTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5847-9585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Non-place, dispossession, and the 2010 Commonwealth Games: An urban transformation analyzed
Assessing the sustainable development goals from a human rights perspective
Though they improve upon the millennium development goals (MDGs), the new sustainable development goals (SDGs) have important draw-backs. First, in assessing present deprivations, they draw our attention to historical comparisons. Yet, that things were even worse before is morally irrelevant; what matters is how much better things could be now. Second, like the MDGs, the SDGs fail to specify any division of labor to ensure success. Therefore, sho…
The Sustainable Development Goals: A plan for building a better world
Despite some clear positives, the draft text of the Sustainable Development Goals does not fulfill its self-proclaimed purpose of inspiring and guiding a concerted international effort to eradicate severe poverty everywhere in all of its forms. We offer some critical comments on the proposed agreement and suggest 10 ways to embolden the goals and amplify their appeal and moral power. While it may well be true that the world's poor are better off …
Modi Planning: What the Niti Aayog Suggests about the Aspirations and Practices of the Modi Government
On 1 January 2015, India's 64-year-old apex policy-making body, the Planning Commission, was replaced by a new institution, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. While it is still too early to assess the NITI Aayog's impact on India's complex policy landscape, or the full extent of its social and political implications, the emerging architecture of the new institution provides valuable insights into the Modi government's e…
Understanding India's new political economy: A great transformation
Anna Hazare's Anti-Corruption Movement and the Limits of Mass Mobilization in India
A hunger strike that played upon Gandhi's legacy of civil disobedience and mass protest was India's capstone event for 2011. Initiated by Anna Hazare, a 74-year-old self-styled Gandhian, the protest targeted the government's new anti-corruption legislation, which Hazare proclaimed as too weak. Hazare's demand for a strong anti-corruption law, leading to the establishment of an independent ombudsman (Lokpal), had slowly gained momentum in the firs…
Bihar: Many Milestones Crossed, but Mountains Still to Move (A Report on the Global Summit on Changing Bihar, 2012)
Anna Hazare and the Idea of Gandhi
In August 2011, India was in the headlines due to an anti-corruption hunger strike that played upon Gandhi's legacy of civil disobedience and mass protest. The strike was initiated by a short, bespectacled, 74-year-old man called Anna Hazare to protest the government's new anticorruption legislation, which Hazare said was too weak. Hazare's call for a strong anticorruption Lokpal (ombudsman) had slowly gained momentum in the first half of 2011, w…
World Class’ Dreams and Urban Change: A Critique of the 2010 Commonwealth Games
A Million Dollar Exit from the Anarchic Slum-world: Slumdog Millionaire 's hollow idioms of social justice
This article contests the characterisation of the popular and acclaimed film, Slumdog Millionaire, as a realistic portrayal of India's urban poverty that will ultimately serve as a tool of advocacy for India's urban poor. It argues that the film's reductive view of slum-spaces will more probably reinforce negative attitudes towards slum-dwellers, lending credibility to the sorts of policies that have historically dispossessed them of power and di…
Reductive Realities and Empty Humanism: A Critique of Born into Brothels and Slumdog Millionaire
Making the State Change Its Mind – the IMF, the World Bank and the Politics of India's Market Reforms
Assessing the sustainable development goals from a human rights perspective
Though they improve upon the millennium development goals (MDGs), the new sustainable development goals (SDGs) have important draw-backs. First, in assessing present deprivations, they draw our attention to historical comparisons. Yet, that things were even worse before is morally irrelevant; what matters is how much better things could be now. Second, like the MDGs, the SDGs fail to specify any division of labor to ensure success. Therefore, sho…
Making the State Change Its Mind – the IMF, the World Bank and the Politics of India's Market Reforms
The Sustainable Development Goals: A plan for building a better world
Despite some clear positives, the draft text of the Sustainable Development Goals does not fulfill its self-proclaimed purpose of inspiring and guiding a concerted international effort to eradicate severe poverty everywhere in all of its forms. We offer some critical comments on the proposed agreement and suggest 10 ways to embolden the goals and amplify their appeal and moral power. While it may well be true that the world's poor are better off …
Understanding India's new political economy: A great transformation
Anna Hazare and the Idea of Gandhi
In August 2011, India was in the headlines due to an anti-corruption hunger strike that played upon Gandhi's legacy of civil disobedience and mass protest. The strike was initiated by a short, bespectacled, 74-year-old man called Anna Hazare to protest the government's new anticorruption legislation, which Hazare said was too weak. Hazare's call for a strong anticorruption Lokpal (ombudsman) had slowly gained momentum in the first half of 2011, w…
Anna Hazare's Anti-Corruption Movement and the Limits of Mass Mobilization in India
A hunger strike that played upon Gandhi's legacy of civil disobedience and mass protest was India's capstone event for 2011. Initiated by Anna Hazare, a 74-year-old self-styled Gandhian, the protest targeted the government's new anti-corruption legislation, which Hazare proclaimed as too weak. Hazare's demand for a strong anti-corruption law, leading to the establishment of an independent ombudsman (Lokpal), had slowly gained momentum in the firs…
Modi Planning: What the Niti Aayog Suggests about the Aspirations and Practices of the Modi Government
On 1 January 2015, India's 64-year-old apex policy-making body, the Planning Commission, was replaced by a new institution, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. While it is still too early to assess the NITI Aayog's impact on India's complex policy landscape, or the full extent of its social and political implications, the emerging architecture of the new institution provides valuable insights into the Modi government's e…
Reductive Realities and Empty Humanism: A Critique of Born into Brothels and Slumdog Millionaire
Making the State Change Its Mind – the IMF, the World Bank and the Politics of India's Market Reforms
World Class’ Dreams and Urban Change: A Critique of the 2010 Commonwealth Games
A Million Dollar Exit from the Anarchic Slum-world: Slumdog Millionaire 's hollow idioms of social justice
This article contests the characterisation of the popular and acclaimed film, Slumdog Millionaire, as a realistic portrayal of India's urban poverty that will ultimately serve as a tool of advocacy for India's urban poor. It argues that the film's reductive view of slum-spaces will more probably reinforce negative attitudes towards slum-dwellers, lending credibility to the sorts of policies that have historically dispossessed them of power and di…
Bihar: Many Milestones Crossed, but Mountains Still to Move (A Report on the Global Summit on Changing Bihar, 2012)
Anna Hazare and the Idea of Gandhi
In August 2011, India was in the headlines due to an anti-corruption hunger strike that played upon Gandhi's legacy of civil disobedience and mass protest. The strike was initiated by a short, bespectacled, 74-year-old man called Anna Hazare to protest the government's new anticorruption legislation, which Hazare said was too weak. Hazare's call for a strong anticorruption Lokpal (ombudsman) had slowly gained momentum in the first half of 2011, w…
Understanding India's new political economy: A great transformation
Anna Hazare's Anti-Corruption Movement and the Limits of Mass Mobilization in India
A hunger strike that played upon Gandhi's legacy of civil disobedience and mass protest was India's capstone event for 2011. Initiated by Anna Hazare, a 74-year-old self-styled Gandhian, the protest targeted the government's new anti-corruption legislation, which Hazare proclaimed as too weak. Hazare's demand for a strong anti-corruption law, leading to the establishment of an independent ombudsman (Lokpal), had slowly gained momentum in the firs…
The Sustainable Development Goals: A plan for building a better world
Despite some clear positives, the draft text of the Sustainable Development Goals does not fulfill its self-proclaimed purpose of inspiring and guiding a concerted international effort to eradicate severe poverty everywhere in all of its forms. We offer some critical comments on the proposed agreement and suggest 10 ways to embolden the goals and amplify their appeal and moral power. While it may well be true that the world's poor are better off …
Modi Planning: What the Niti Aayog Suggests about the Aspirations and Practices of the Modi Government
On 1 January 2015, India's 64-year-old apex policy-making body, the Planning Commission, was replaced by a new institution, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. While it is still too early to assess the NITI Aayog's impact on India's complex policy landscape, or the full extent of its social and political implications, the emerging architecture of the new institution provides valuable insights into the Modi government's e…
Non-place, dispossession, and the 2010 Commonwealth Games: An urban transformation analyzed
Assessing the sustainable development goals from a human rights perspective
Though they improve upon the millennium development goals (MDGs), the new sustainable development goals (SDGs) have important draw-backs. First, in assessing present deprivations, they draw our attention to historical comparisons. Yet, that things were even worse before is morally irrelevant; what matters is how much better things could be now. Second, like the MDGs, the SDGs fail to specify any division of labor to ensure success. Therefore, sho…
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)