Amites Mukhopadhyay
Biographic Data
| ID | 5944562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amites Mukhopadhyay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amites |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukhopadhyay |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHOPADHYAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jadavpur University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Yogendra Singh: Remembering the Sociologist (1932–2020)
Yogendra Singh, the sociologist and the Professor emeritus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) passed away in May this year. Professor Singh’s demise is not only a loss to the sociology fraternity, but also to the scholarship on and more importantly, to the tradition of critical studies in India. The article remembers Yogendra Singh and reflects on his career as a teacher, an academic and institution builder. Yogendra Singh was not simply a prof…
Ethnographic fieldwork
Ethnography as a method is integral to anthropological research. The present chapter focuses on ethnography, tracing its origin to European Enlightenment and growth of sciences. The chapter argues how colonialism came in handy enabling conditions of governance under which ethnography’s interest in the quintessential other or other cultures grew. Apart from providing a brief overview of ethnography’s emergence in the Indian context, the chapter al…
Living with Disasters: Communities and Development in the Indian Sundarbans
Negotiating development: The nuclear episode in the Sundarbans of West Bengal
This paper examines the dynamics of anti-nuclear campaigns in the Sundarbans of West Bengal. By focusing on a voluntary agency’s (in this case, the Development Forum) engagement with the anti-nuclear protest, it seeks to interrogate the standard environmental narrative in South Asia, which frequently characterizes the environmental movements as the people’s spontaneous emancipation from a destructive and monolithic state. This paper argues agains…
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Negotiating development: The nuclear episode in the Sundarbans of West Bengal
This paper examines the dynamics of anti-nuclear campaigns in the Sundarbans of West Bengal. By focusing on a voluntary agency’s (in this case, the Development Forum) engagement with the anti-nuclear protest, it seeks to interrogate the standard environmental narrative in South Asia, which frequently characterizes the environmental movements as the people’s spontaneous emancipation from a destructive and monolithic state. This paper argues agains…
Living with Disasters: Communities and Development in the Indian Sundarbans
Ethnographic fieldwork
Ethnography as a method is integral to anthropological research. The present chapter focuses on ethnography, tracing its origin to European Enlightenment and growth of sciences. The chapter argues how colonialism came in handy enabling conditions of governance under which ethnography’s interest in the quintessential other or other cultures grew. Apart from providing a brief overview of ethnography’s emergence in the Indian context, the chapter al…
Yogendra Singh: Remembering the Sociologist (1932–2020)
Yogendra Singh, the sociologist and the Professor emeritus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) passed away in May this year. Professor Singh’s demise is not only a loss to the sociology fraternity, but also to the scholarship on and more importantly, to the tradition of critical studies in India. The article remembers Yogendra Singh and reflects on his career as a teacher, an academic and institution builder. Yogendra Singh was not simply a prof…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · BENGAL (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (2 works) · Law (2 works)