Ipshita Basu
Biographic Data
| ID | 453163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ipshita Basu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ipshita |
| FAMILY NAME | Basu |
| SIGNATURE | BASU I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1961-1568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Agentive minorities: Place-memory, identity and ontological security in post-war Sri Lanka
Envisaging Just Energy Transitions in Jharkhand: (Re)Interrogating the Politico-Economic Entanglements of the Private Regimes of Extraction and Accumulation
One of the major concerns around in coal mining and extractive regimes more generally in India has been the role of the private sector in managing precarious labor environments through intermediation, which has deep political roots. While the state–corporate nexus is well established in the coal mining sector, we observe here that an important part of sustaining productivity and profitability from mining has been the organized intermediation of p…
Valuing the 'neighbourhood: Responding to Racialised Post-War Development in Slave Island, Colombo
This article explores how Slave Island, a neighbourhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka, responds to upheaval in a context of post-war urban transformation that masks undertones of racialisation. Through life histories of Slave Island’s multigenerational residents, we offer fresh insights into how communities navigate the uncertainty and disruption of evictions, where besides material and economic infrastructure, communities repurpose differences and commo…
Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's Jharkhand
Jharkhand ('the land of forests')-the only self-defined Indigenous state in India-was created in 2000 after a lengthy regional campaign known as the Jharkhand Movement. Over the 20 years since then, the state has been a volatile political environment in which competing political groups from the radical left (known as Maoists) and the Hindu right, as well as regional parties, have mobilized Indigenous subaltern communities for different ends. The …
The Democratic Prospects of Digital Urban Futures: Lessons from India’s Smart Cities Mission
This paper explains the potential implications of digital interventions for social accountability through the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) in India. The SCM represents India’s transition to a new political economy based on rapid urbanization and wide-scale application of digital technology to reform public service delivery while simultaneously creating new markets for urban transformation. Within this wider context, the paper considers the future o…
Who Is in the Middle: Social Class, Core Values, and Identities in India
This article examines how middle‐class identity is experienced and employed by traditional and neo‐middle‐class identifiers in India. The economically and socially heterogeneous middle‐class identifiers vote similarly, but we know very little about what they want out of politics. We focus on the subjective experiences of middle‐class identifiers, we theorize the expressive function of middle‐class identities, and we examine the socially and perso…
Elite discourse coalitions and the governance of 'smart spaces: Politics, power and privilege in India's Smart Cities Mission
The Politics of Recognition and Redistribution: Development, Tribal Identity Politics and Distributive Justice in India's Jharkhand
This article illustrates how the potential of recognition-based politics to achieve distributive justice is determined by political structures and the power relations that constitute them. In response to Nancy Fraser's framework of social justice, it shows that the meaningful coordination of identity-based claims with distributive justice is constrained - not only by the content of the claims themselves, but also because redistributive demands ar…
Security and development – are they two sides of the same coin? Investigating India's two-pronged policy towards left wing extremism
In this article, I investigate India's two-pronged policy approach, which combines security and development intervention to address the root cause and symptoms of left wing extremism. While the two policy sets are meant for two very distinct policy subjects - the angry extremist and the neglected poor - I argue that in renewing state legitimacy against internal dissent, development goals are made to coincide with traditional security concerns for…
Elite discourse coalitions and the governance of 'smart spaces: Politics, power and privilege in India's Smart Cities Mission
Security and development – are they two sides of the same coin? Investigating India's two-pronged policy towards left wing extremism
In this article, I investigate India's two-pronged policy approach, which combines security and development intervention to address the root cause and symptoms of left wing extremism. While the two policy sets are meant for two very distinct policy subjects - the angry extremist and the neglected poor - I argue that in renewing state legitimacy against internal dissent, development goals are made to coincide with traditional security concerns for…
The Politics of Recognition and Redistribution: Development, Tribal Identity Politics and Distributive Justice in India's Jharkhand
This article illustrates how the potential of recognition-based politics to achieve distributive justice is determined by political structures and the power relations that constitute them. In response to Nancy Fraser's framework of social justice, it shows that the meaningful coordination of identity-based claims with distributive justice is constrained - not only by the content of the claims themselves, but also because redistributive demands ar…
Valuing the 'neighbourhood: Responding to Racialised Post-War Development in Slave Island, Colombo
This article explores how Slave Island, a neighbourhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka, responds to upheaval in a context of post-war urban transformation that masks undertones of racialisation. Through life histories of Slave Island’s multigenerational residents, we offer fresh insights into how communities navigate the uncertainty and disruption of evictions, where besides material and economic infrastructure, communities repurpose differences and commo…
Who Is in the Middle: Social Class, Core Values, and Identities in India
This article examines how middle‐class identity is experienced and employed by traditional and neo‐middle‐class identifiers in India. The economically and socially heterogeneous middle‐class identifiers vote similarly, but we know very little about what they want out of politics. We focus on the subjective experiences of middle‐class identifiers, we theorize the expressive function of middle‐class identities, and we examine the socially and perso…
Security and development – are they two sides of the same coin? Investigating India's two-pronged policy towards left wing extremism
In this article, I investigate India's two-pronged policy approach, which combines security and development intervention to address the root cause and symptoms of left wing extremism. While the two policy sets are meant for two very distinct policy subjects - the angry extremist and the neglected poor - I argue that in renewing state legitimacy against internal dissent, development goals are made to coincide with traditional security concerns for…
The Politics of Recognition and Redistribution: Development, Tribal Identity Politics and Distributive Justice in India's Jharkhand
This article illustrates how the potential of recognition-based politics to achieve distributive justice is determined by political structures and the power relations that constitute them. In response to Nancy Fraser's framework of social justice, it shows that the meaningful coordination of identity-based claims with distributive justice is constrained - not only by the content of the claims themselves, but also because redistributive demands ar…
Elite discourse coalitions and the governance of 'smart spaces: Politics, power and privilege in India's Smart Cities Mission
The Democratic Prospects of Digital Urban Futures: Lessons from India’s Smart Cities Mission
This paper explains the potential implications of digital interventions for social accountability through the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) in India. The SCM represents India’s transition to a new political economy based on rapid urbanization and wide-scale application of digital technology to reform public service delivery while simultaneously creating new markets for urban transformation. Within this wider context, the paper considers the future o…
Who Is in the Middle: Social Class, Core Values, and Identities in India
This article examines how middle‐class identity is experienced and employed by traditional and neo‐middle‐class identifiers in India. The economically and socially heterogeneous middle‐class identifiers vote similarly, but we know very little about what they want out of politics. We focus on the subjective experiences of middle‐class identifiers, we theorize the expressive function of middle‐class identities, and we examine the socially and perso…
Envisaging Just Energy Transitions in Jharkhand: (Re)Interrogating the Politico-Economic Entanglements of the Private Regimes of Extraction and Accumulation
One of the major concerns around in coal mining and extractive regimes more generally in India has been the role of the private sector in managing precarious labor environments through intermediation, which has deep political roots. While the state–corporate nexus is well established in the coal mining sector, we observe here that an important part of sustaining productivity and profitability from mining has been the organized intermediation of p…
Valuing the 'neighbourhood: Responding to Racialised Post-War Development in Slave Island, Colombo
This article explores how Slave Island, a neighbourhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka, responds to upheaval in a context of post-war urban transformation that masks undertones of racialisation. Through life histories of Slave Island’s multigenerational residents, we offer fresh insights into how communities navigate the uncertainty and disruption of evictions, where besides material and economic infrastructure, communities repurpose differences and commo…
Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's Jharkhand
Jharkhand ('the land of forests')-the only self-defined Indigenous state in India-was created in 2000 after a lengthy regional campaign known as the Jharkhand Movement. Over the 20 years since then, the state has been a volatile political environment in which competing political groups from the radical left (known as Maoists) and the Hindu right, as well as regional parties, have mobilized Indigenous subaltern communities for different ends. The …
Agentive minorities: Place-memory, identity and ontological security in post-war Sri Lanka
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works)