Dr Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay
Position held:
Lecturer, Convenor MA Postcolonial Studies
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7847
Email:
b.mukhopadhyay (@gold.ac.uk)
Born in Calcutta, I grew up in the former French colony of Chandannagore and received my PhD in political economy from Calcutta University in 1995. I have taught political economy at Calcutta University and at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and received various postdoctoral fellowships including the Charles Wallace Postdoctoral Fellowship (SOAS, Centre of South Asian Studies), Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship (School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College), Tweedie Fellowship (Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh) and short-term visiting Professorships at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Social, Paris). In India, I used to teach sociology at Jadavpur University and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Indian National Science Academy and the Centre for Urban Studies, Calcutta University. A founding member of the Folk and Tribal Cultural Centre (Government of West Bengal, Ministry of Information and Culture), Calcutta, I am one of the directors of the Indian chapter of Architecture et Développement, 11, Rue de Cambrai, 75019, Paris. My current work is about the vernacular responses to globalization in India and the politics of the multitude.
Research interests
Political Economy, Commodity and Cultural Thingness; Intellectual Property Right and Commons; Livelihood and Survival; New Social/Religious Movements; Global Flows and Assemblages; Popular Culture; Travel, Pilgrimage and Tourism; Folk Art, Indigenous Media and Kitsch; Novel and Genre-formation in the colonial world; Political Theory; Photography and Development; Postcolonial Urbanism and New Media in the Third World; Vernacular Sexualities.
Selected publications
Representative publications
“Home and the World”: Voyage, Traduction et Domicile dans la Modernité Bengalie, Génèses: Sciences sociales et histoire (Theme issue: L’Europe vue d’ailleurs, Edition Belin, CNRS, Paris), 35, 1999, p-5-30, tr. into French by Monique Guiguet-Bologne.
Writing Home, Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of Dwelling in Bengali Modernity, Comparative Studies in Society and History (Cambridge University Press), Vol. 44, No.2, 2002, p- 293-318.
Between Elite Hysteria and Subaltern Carnivalesque: The Politics of Streetfood in the City of Calcutta, South Asia Research (Sage), Vol. 24, No.1, p-37-50, May 2004, 10,000.
The Rumour of Globalization: Globalism, Counterworks and the Location of Commodity, Dialectical Anthropology (Springer), Vol. 29, No. 1, p-35-60, Spring 2005.
General Introduction, in John Marriott and Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay (ed.) Britain in India 1765-1905, VI Volumes, London, 2006, Pickering and Chatto, I, p-vi-xxi.
Cultural Studies and Politics in India Today, Theory, Culture, Society Annual Review (Sage), Vol. 23, No. 7-8, 2006, p-275-288.
Crossing the Howrah Bridge: Calcutta, Filth and Dwelling -- Forms, Fragments, Phantasms, Theory, Culture, Society Annual Review (Sage) [text accompanied with photographs], Vol. 23, No. 7-8, 2006, p-221-241.
Dream Kitsch: Indigenous Media, “11 September” and the Work of Pot in the Era of Electronic Transmission, The Journal of Material Culture (Sage), (forthcoming).
Forthcoming books
The Rumour of Globalization: The Global, the Local, and the Vernacular.
The Memory of Economy: An Ethnography of Political Economy in Early Colonial Bengal .