Ritwika Biswas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5880316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ritwika Biswas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ritwika |
| FAMILY NAME | Biswas |
| SIGNATURE | BISWAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-6650-8248 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Everyday violence of the urban
Drawing from empirical fieldwork in Kolkata, India, this paper demonstrates how the urban built environment and infrastructural absences along with its strategic presence as per context, leads to unequal accessibility, safety, and differentiated urban experience for women and marginalized groups in city spaces. I expose how violence operates in a continuum from private to public spaces through prejudiced social attitudes and urban infrastructure …
Reimagining the urban through agency as healing justice
To address violence against women in cities, urban scholars and planners have primarily focused on challenging problematic urban built environments, social norms and unequal power relations but have missed emphasising the healing of the harmed individuals and communities. In this paper, we are interested in the role that agency can play in the healing justice process of individuals and communities with experience of violence and spatial trauma. B…
Embracing the uncertain—figuring out our own stories of flexibility and ethics in the field
In this paper, I document my fieldwork struggles in Kolkata India, to propose some common guiding notions of flexibility in the field. I argue that in moments of uncertainty, ethical judgment of the researcher should be a central guiding force while figuring out what flexibility looks like in the field. By detailing how I improvised research methods and ethics in the field based on the context of place, everyday lives of people in global South, a…
Reclaiming the urban
Keywords: Accessibilityfeminist geographyglobal Southintersectionalitysafetyurban spacesviolence against women
Embracing the uncertain—figuring out our own stories of flexibility and ethics in the field
In this paper, I document my fieldwork struggles in Kolkata India, to propose some common guiding notions of flexibility in the field. I argue that in moments of uncertainty, ethical judgment of the researcher should be a central guiding force while figuring out what flexibility looks like in the field. By detailing how I improvised research methods and ethics in the field based on the context of place, everyday lives of people in global South, a…
Reclaiming the urban
Keywords: Accessibilityfeminist geographyglobal Southintersectionalitysafetyurban spacesviolence against women
Reclaiming the urban
Keywords: Accessibilityfeminist geographyglobal Southintersectionalitysafetyurban spacesviolence against women
Embracing the uncertain—figuring out our own stories of flexibility and ethics in the field
In this paper, I document my fieldwork struggles in Kolkata India, to propose some common guiding notions of flexibility in the field. I argue that in moments of uncertainty, ethical judgment of the researcher should be a central guiding force while figuring out what flexibility looks like in the field. By detailing how I improvised research methods and ethics in the field based on the context of place, everyday lives of people in global South, a…
Reimagining the urban through agency as healing justice
To address violence against women in cities, urban scholars and planners have primarily focused on challenging problematic urban built environments, social norms and unequal power relations but have missed emphasising the healing of the harmed individuals and communities. In this paper, we are interested in the role that agency can play in the healing justice process of individuals and communities with experience of violence and spatial trauma. B…
Everyday violence of the urban
Drawing from empirical fieldwork in Kolkata, India, this paper demonstrates how the urban built environment and infrastructural absences along with its strategic presence as per context, leads to unequal accessibility, safety, and differentiated urban experience for women and marginalized groups in city spaces. I expose how violence operates in a continuum from private to public spaces through prejudiced social attitudes and urban infrastructure …
Sociology (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Everyday life (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social science (2 works)