Faculty Details proforma for DU Web-site

Faculty Details proforma for DU Web-site
Title Dr.
Designation
Address
First Name Aparajita Last Name De
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography, Delhi School of
Economics, Delhi University, Delhi 110 007
(Campus)
909B, Tower-C, Gaur Valerio, [Opp. DPS
Indirapuram], Ahimsa Khand – II, Indirapuram,
Ghaziabad, U.P. Pin 201010 (Residence)
011-27666491
Photograph
Phone No Office
Residence
Mobile
9899331087
Email
[email protected]
Web-Page
Educational Qualifications
Degree
Institution
Year
Ph.D.
Gujarat University
2002
M.Phil. / M.Tech.
PG
Gujarat University
1998
UG
Presidency College, Calcutta University
1996
Any other qualification Career Profile
 Assistant Professor (senior scale) at Dept. of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
University since 2009.
 Assistant Professor at Dept. of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University since
2005.
 Assistant Professor, Centre for Social Studies, South Gujarat University Campus, Udhna
Magdalla Road, Surat 395007, November 2002 to December 2004.
 Visiting Faculty, at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo,
Norway, October – November 2002
Administrative Assignments
1. Alumni- in- charge for Dept. of Geography, DSE since 2011.
2. Seminar in-charge, at Dept. of Geography, D.U. 2009 -2011.
3. Placement in-charge, at Dept. of Geography, D.U. 2006-2007.
4. Resident Tutor in Ambedkar-Ganguly Hostel for Women, University of Delhi, 2005 to 2006.
5. Staff Secretary and Seminar in-charge at Dept. of Geography, D.U. 2005 – 2006.
Areas of Interest / Specialization
1. Urban Studies
2. Geography of Landscapes
3. Media studies
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Subjects Taught
1. Geography of Thought (M.A. 1st semester)
2. Human Geography (M.A. 2nd Semester)
3. Geography of Landscape (4th Semester)
4. Qualitative Methodologies (M. Phil, Course 2: Research Methods, Geography)
5. Politics of space (M. Phil, Course 3, Geography)
6. Research Methodology (Ph.D. Coursework)
7. Interdisciplinary M.Phil Course on Caste conducted by D.U (2012) : Popular Media and Caste
Research Guidance
1. Supervision of Doctoral Thesis, awarded
 “Growth, Development and Sustainability of Cities: A Case Study of Gurgaon” (Pooja
Chaudhary Mehtani)
 “Media Space and the State: A Geographical Interpretation of Image Politics in India”
(Shekh Moinuddin)
2. Supervision of Doctoral Thesis, under progress
 “Crime, Space and media: A Study of Spatial distribution of crime in Delhi” (Vivek
Tripathi)
 “Urban Regeneration: A case study of urban villages of NCT of Delhi” (Kriti Kanoujia)
 “Spatial restructuring, urban governance and rights to the city: The case of Delhi”
(Jeetesh Rai)
3. Supervision of M.Phil dissertations, awarded
 “A Place they called Home: Understanding the Narration of Homes amongst the West
Punjabi Refugees”: Tanu Dhiman
 “Between Tradition and Modernity: A Case Study of Hindi T.V. Serials” (Jyoti Paul)
4. Supervision of M.Phil dissertations,under progress
 “ Conservation of heritage through lived spaces: Case study of Chitpur Road, Kolkata”
(Rishika Mukopadhay)
 “Restructuring urban spaces: The case of Okhla industrial area, Delhi”(Rahul Saikia)
 “ The church and the city: Role of Kerala Christians in shaping the cityscape of Delhi”
(Vipin Vergese)
 “Spatial transformation and development of cultural economy: A case study of
Shahdara, Delhi” (Pratibha Tomar)
 “Transformation and Development in Peri-urban Areas of Delhi” (Vandana)
 “Chroniclesof public spaces : Studying the cultural heritage of bazaar spaces of Boi Para,
College Street Kolkata” (Arunima Ghosal)
 “Creative Economy and the Emerging Culture of Contemporary Bengali Restaurants in
Kolkata” (Aditi Das)
 “Minority at Large: The Cultural Diaspora in the Sacredscape of Rarh: Exploring the folk
deity ‘Dharmaraj’ in Katwa subdivision, Barddhaman, West Bengal” Nirmita Roy
Chowdhury)
Publications Profile
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1. Books/Monographs (Authored/Edited)
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“Imagined Geographies: Geographical knowledge of self and others in everyday life, the case
of Ahmedabad” – [Research Monograph] 2004 CSDS, Delhi and CSS, Surat.
“Hindu Muslim Relations in Post Godhra Gujarat, A Case Study of Vadodara and Surat” –
(Research Monograph; jointly with Dr. Kiran Desai) 2003 Centre for Studies in Secularism,
Mumbai and CSS, Surat
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2. Research papers published in Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journals
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Guest editor of Special Issue on Conversations with the Modern Indian City: Questioning the
Regimes of Modernity and Development , Journal of Social Science and Humanity Research, An
interdisciplinary Peer reviewed journal), Vol. 3 No. 1 January – June 2015 ISSN: 2321-8908.
 “Reimagining impossible worlds: beyond circumcised geographical imaginations”. (jointly with
Anindita Datta) in Progress in Human Geography, 32:603-612, 2008.
 “Communal Confrontations and Changing Social Space in Indian Cities: Case of Ahmedabad” –
(jointly with Dr. Anjana P. Desai) Published in Ekistics, Athens in the special issue on
Architecture & Features II, 2002.
3.
a) Research papers published in Academic Journals other than Refereed/Peer Reviewed
Journals
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“Caste Associations as Non Western Civil Society: Narratives from Ahmedabad”, published in
Occasional Papers, Bombay Geographical Association, Mumbai, Issue No.3, March 2008
b) Research papers published in Refereed/Peer Reviewed Conferences
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Mapping Fear and Violence in Public Spaces, in Transnational Workshop on Women without
Fear: Gender based Violence, Urban Transport and Public Spaces in Metropolitan India,
Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia, 2-4 June, 2015.
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Re-Negotiating the Women in Public: Media and the Writing of the Actress in Hindi Film
Industry beyond the Celluloid, at GDS/SERD, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 12
November, 2015.
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Reconstructing the past: the making of Darjeeling through colonial and local narratives, At the
Colonial Northeast India: Local Histories, Regional Cultures, Global Connections Conference,
Asia History Hub, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne,
Australia; University of Toronto; Delhi University, 2014.
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Translating at the Margins: Colonial Ethnography and Revival of Ethnic Questions, The sixth
Asian Translation Traditions Conference (ATT6), at the University of the Philippines in Diliman,
Quezon City, 2014.
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“In Search of Modern Indian City: Transformative Practices and Indigenous Urbanisms in the
Walled City of Ahmedabad”, paper presented in the National Seminar on Contemporary Urban
System: Challenges and Opportunities. Organized by the Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Beneras Hindu
University, Varanasi, 10-13 Feb. 2013.
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“Divisions of Space among Hindus and Muslims: Making of Everyday Borders and Identities in
the World City of Ahmedabad”, paper presented in the National Seminar on Modes of Ethnic
Identity Construction in India, organized by the Department of Sociology, University of North
Bengal. March 10‐11, 2012.
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“The Growth Story of Gurgaon: A Small City within the Millennium City”, paper presented in
the National Seminar on Small Cities and Towns in Global Era: Emerging Changes and
Perspectives, organized by the centre for Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Mumbai. August 29‐30, 2011.
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“Bubbly, Sexy, Tragic: the Good girls and Bad girls in Bollywood” at International Seminar on
Contextualizing Geographical Approaches to Studying Gender in Asia, March 3rd to 5th, 2010,
Delhi University.
4. Other publications (Edited works, Book reviews, Festschrift volumes, etc.)
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Interpreting Landscapes, Teacher Plus, June,2014, Azeem Premji University.
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‘Negotiating Everyday Conversation of South Asian Transnational Identities in Social Media’ in
M. Friedman and S. Schultermandl (eds) Click and Kin: Identity and Quick Media, University of
Toronto Press, Toronto (In press).
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“Divisions of Space among Hindus and Muslims: Making of Everyday Borders and Identities in
the World City of Ahmedabad”, in Sanjoy Roy and R.S. Mukhopadhyay (eds) Ethnicity In The East
And North-East India, Gyan Books, Delhi, 2015.
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“The Silence of the Lambs: Re-negotiating the Bollywood Heroine in Public”, in Amitava
Chatterjee (ed) Gender and Modernity, Setu Publications, Kolkata 2015.
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“Sex, Lies and Films: Desire and Erotica in Indian Films” in Anindita Datta (ed) in Reorienting
gender: Geographies of Resistance, Agency, Violence and Desire in Asia, R.K Books, Delhi, 2014.
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“Encountering Reservation and The Reimagining of Caste” in Ashok Dutt et. al. eds. Facets of
Social Geography: International and Indian Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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“Indian Cities In Cultural Perspective: Case of Ahmedabad”, (Co Authored) Published In Ranjan
Basu, Sukla Bhaduri (Eds.) Society Development And Environment: Prof. Sunil Kumar Munsi
Felicitation Volume, Progressive Publishers, Kolkata, 2006.
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“Spatial Structure and Migratory Social Space: Case of Ahmedabad City” , (co authored)
published in S. Banerjee-Guha (ed.) Space, Society and Geography, Jaipur: Rawat, 2004.
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Conference Organization/ Presentations (in the last three years)
List against each head(If applicable)
 Organization of a Conference
 Participation as Paper/Poster Presenter
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“ Landscape and Media as tools of Teaching in Schools for Social Sciences. Conducted a training
session for the higher secondary teachers at Bal Bharati School Training Institute, Pitampura.
Organized by Bal Bharati School, New Delhi on 2 March, 2014.
“Transforming Information into Knowledge: Introducing Critical Thinking in Classroom Teaching”
conducted a training session for the higher secondary teachers at Bal Bharati School Training
Institute, Pitampura. Organized by Bal Bharati School, New Delhi on 31 August, 2013.
Participated as a presenter in a panel discussion on Future of Geography, organized by Kalindi
College, Delhi University. March 2013.
Participated as a presenter in a panel discussion on Contemporary Education System, organized
by Hindu College, Delhi University. February 2013.
“Bursting at the Seams: India’s Urbanization Story”, participated at a Panel discussion on All
India Radio, New Delhi, 25 October, 2011.
“Jab We Met Mumbai: A City of Fantasies and Contradictions” Photo Exhibition held in January
2012, at Delhi School of Economics, D.U.
“Reading Mumbai and Bollywood: The City of Films and the Filmy City Juxtaposed” paper
presented at the Workshop entitled, Reading City, held on 22 February, 2011 at University of
Delhi
“Bubbly, Sexy, Tragic: the Good girls and Bad girls in Bollywood” paper presented at
International Seminar on Contextualizing Geographical Approaches to Studying Gender in Asia,
March 3rd to 5th, 2010, Delhi University.
Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration)
 “Culture, Space and Identity: A Geographical analysis of Bollywood through Media” Research
Grant received from 2009 to 2013-14, 2015 -16 from Delhi University.
Awards and Distinctions
Association With Professional Bodies
1. Editing
Member of Editorial Board of The Journal of Social Science and Humanity Research
2. Reviewing
Reviewer for New Media and Society
3. Advisory Committees and Boards
i) Member of textbook development committee for textbook in Geography for Class X, NCERT.
2006
4. Memberships
i) Life member of AGS (The Association for Geographical Studies)
5. Office Bearer
Other Activities
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Editor of an academic blog page: Cultural Cartographies of Media: Exploring Media
Spaces and Media Culture. (www.mltspaces.blogpost.in)
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