Rahul Bhaumik
Biographic Data
| ID | 4459874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rahul Bhaumik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rahul |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhaumik |
| SIGNATURE | BHAUMIK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jadavpur University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0970-6726 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The relocation of lives through communal vibes
The footballing past in the bustling paths
The aim of this paper is to examine a kind of open-air museumization of topophilic aspects of football in the birthplace of the Mohun Bagan Athletic Club in North Kolkata, West Bengal, India. While dealing with some graffiti, memorial plaques, and relief sculptures implanted in some public lanes of the Bagbazar-Sovabazar-Shyambazar area, it explores a sports-landscape bonding, which becomes instrumental for reminiscing, representing, and interpre…
The making of a neglected tropical disease
This chapter seeks to understand the politics of identifying, defining and categorising snakebite as a “neglected tropical disease.” In doing so, it tries to present a critical reading of the WHO-led global biomedical discourse, its relation to the larger discourse on tropical poverty and funding in medical infrastructure. While recognising the politics of “Otherisation” of snakebite as a disease predominantly affecting the tropical poor, this ch…
Peter Hobbins, Venomous Encounters
The year 2017 saw a remarkable surge of scholarly publications on the history of medical-zoological engagement with snakes and their venoms across different geographical and cultural locations.1 Amongst these fresh and important contributions, Peter Hobbins’s Venomous Encounters is an exquisite attempt to illuminate the hitherto overlooked features of ‘toxic histories’ by foregrounding the presence of venomous snakes in colonial Australia and the…
Indian Snakes and Snaky India
This article explores British Orientalist construction of 'snake-infested' India focusing on the constitution of Orientalist discourse through the real experience of the colonisers gained in course of their extensive engagement with Indian wilderness while they began to subjugate more and more areas of the subcontinent.The main thrust of this article is to prove that, the Orientalist creation of the inferior image of venomous Indian snakes and th…
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Indian Snakes and Snaky India
This article explores British Orientalist construction of 'snake-infested' India focusing on the constitution of Orientalist discourse through the real experience of the colonisers gained in course of their extensive engagement with Indian wilderness while they began to subjugate more and more areas of the subcontinent.The main thrust of this article is to prove that, the Orientalist creation of the inferior image of venomous Indian snakes and th…
Peter Hobbins, Venomous Encounters
The year 2017 saw a remarkable surge of scholarly publications on the history of medical-zoological engagement with snakes and their venoms across different geographical and cultural locations.1 Amongst these fresh and important contributions, Peter Hobbins’s Venomous Encounters is an exquisite attempt to illuminate the hitherto overlooked features of ‘toxic histories’ by foregrounding the presence of venomous snakes in colonial Australia and the…
The making of a neglected tropical disease
This chapter seeks to understand the politics of identifying, defining and categorising snakebite as a “neglected tropical disease.” In doing so, it tries to present a critical reading of the WHO-led global biomedical discourse, its relation to the larger discourse on tropical poverty and funding in medical infrastructure. While recognising the politics of “Otherisation” of snakebite as a disease predominantly affecting the tropical poor, this ch…
The footballing past in the bustling paths
The aim of this paper is to examine a kind of open-air museumization of topophilic aspects of football in the birthplace of the Mohun Bagan Athletic Club in North Kolkata, West Bengal, India. While dealing with some graffiti, memorial plaques, and relief sculptures implanted in some public lanes of the Bagbazar-Sovabazar-Shyambazar area, it explores a sports-landscape bonding, which becomes instrumental for reminiscing, representing, and interpre…
The relocation of lives through communal vibes
Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (2 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (2 works) · Advertising (1 works)