Ipsita Chatterjee

Faculty

Associate Professor

ENV 320G

Ipsita Chatterjee’s research interests focus on political economy of capitalism, globalization, urban change, class, identity, labor, nature, Marxism, feminism, social theory. More particularly, Chatterjee has worked on ethno-religious violence, neoliberal urbanism, urban displacement, gentrification, commodification and symbolic reproduction, identity and landscape making. Chatterjee passionately believes that her research and teaching must illuminate exploitative conditions and processes affecting the poor, minority, labor, and women in order to intellectually imagine a socially just world. Intellectualism grounded in social justice, according to Chatterjee, is not an option or choice, nor can it be acquired piecemeal, it is an all-encompassing discursive-material necessity that we must all work towards.

Chatterjee has published: Displacement, Revolution, and the New Urban Condition (Sage), Spectacular Cities: Religion, Landscape and the Dialectics of Globalization (Oxford), and her most recent book is titled: The Alt-Right Movement: Dissecting Racism, Patriarchy, and Anti-immigrant Xenophobia (Sage) won the Excellence in Book Production Award by the Federation of Indian Publishers in 2021.

Email: Ipsita.Chatterjee@unt.edu

Website: https://ipsitachatterjee.wixsite.com/chatterjee

Education

2007: PhD. in Geography, Clark University, Massachusetts, USA.

2002: Master of Philosophy in Geography, Center for Study of Regional Development School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

2000: Master of Arts in Geography, Center for Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

1998: Bachelor of Science in Geography with Honors, University of Calcutta, Loreto College, India.

Editorship:

Editor (present): Human Geography. The journal advances radical, critical, liberatory, leftist, social and/or environmental justice scholarship.

2024-27: Editorial Board, Annals of the American Association of Geographers

2019-present: Vice President: Institute of Human Geography. Institute of HG is affiliated with the journal of Human Geography that annually awards multiple research grants to scholars globally.

2018-present: Editorial Board member of Caste: A global journal of social exclusion.

2018-2023: Member of the Editorial collective of Review of Radical Political Economy.

Courses taught:

Current

Globalization, Conflict, Resistance (Graduate Seminar)

Political Geography (Undergraduate)

Urban Geography (Graduate/Undergraduate)

Culture, Environment, Society (Introduction to human geography, undergraduate)

Past

Global Societies (Undergraduate)

City, Space, and Power (Undergraduate)

This Human World (Undergraduate)

Women, Ideas, and Society (Undergraduate)

Cultural Geography (Undergraduate)

Geography of International Affairs (Undergraduate)

Geographies of Globalization (Undergraduate)

Selected Publication:

Books:

Funke, J., Chatterjee, I., Ahmed, W., McCauley, S. (forthcoming, 2024) Geography in the 21st Century: Conflicts and disasters that shaped society. ABC: CLIO.

Chatterjee, I. (2021) The Alt-Right Movement: Dissecting racism, patriarchy, and anti-immigrant xenophobia, Sage.

Chatterjee, I. (2016) Spectacular Cities: Religion, Landscapes and the dialectics of Globalization, Oxford University press.

Chatterjee, I. (2014). Displacement, Revolution, and the New Urban Condition. Delhi, London, New York: Sage.

Articles:

Chatterjee, I. (2024) Marxism and Geography. In Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds. B. Warf Spinger. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25900-5_179-1

Chatterjee, I. (2023) Quintessence of Urban India: Musings about social change but not limited to it. In Social Change Vol.53(2) June: 256-274.

Chatterjee, I. (2023) Marx’s ‘species being’ as an ontological revolution against the ‘green city/global city’ agenda: Two possible moments of reclaiming ‘species life. In Capitalism, Nature Socialism Vol 34(4), pp 78-96.

Chatterjee, I. (2023) Roll on That Day: A Dialectical Poetry. Phil O’ Keefe symposium. Human Geography 16(1), pp.109-112.

Chatterjee, I. (2023) First conversation. Human Geography, 16(1), pp.98-101.

Chatterjee, I. (2022) The Muslim: Islamophobia as Disembodiment. In Journal of Culture and Religion.

Chatterjee, I. (2022) Marx lies Within. Human Geography, 15.1, pp 90-101. Special Issue: Marxist Geography.

Chatterjee, I. and Ahmed, W., 2019. Dialectical materialism: Marx's method in human geography? ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 18(2).

Ahmed, W. & Chatterjee, I (2016) Antinomies of the Indian State. In Handbook of Critical Political Economy, eds. A. Cafruny, L. Talani & G. Pozo. Palgrave MacMillan.

Chatterjee, I. (2015) Beyond the Factory: Struggling with Class and Class Struggle in the Post-industrial Context in Capital and Class.

Chatterjee, I. (2013) Social Conflict and the Neoliberal City: A case of Hindu-Muslim violence in India. In G. Shatkin (Ed.) Contesting the Indian City: Global Vision and the Politics of the Local. Blackwell (This is a modified reprint).

Ahmed, W. and Chatterjee, I. (2013) Contradictory policies of neoliberalizing India, Human Geography, vol. 6(2), pp.85-97.

Chatterjee, I. (2012) Feminism, the False Consciousness of Neoliberal Capitalism? in Gender, Place and Culture vol. 19(6), December, pp.790-809.

Chatterjee, I. (2012) How are they othered? Globalization, Identity and Violence in an Indian city in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 178(2), June, pp. 134-146.

Chatterjee, I. (2011) Identifying Class and Classifying Identity in Understanding Violence in France and Ahmedabad in ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies vol. 10 (2), pp.232-253.

Chatterjee, I. (2011) Governance as ‘Performed,’ Governance as ‘Inscribed’: New Urban Politics in Ahmedabad. Urban Studies vol. 48(12) September, pp. 2571-2590.

Chatterjee, I. (2010) Globalization and the Production of Difference: A case study of Neoliberal production of Hindu Nationalism in India. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 30(3), pp. 621-632.

Chatterjee, I. (2009) Violent Morphologies: Landscape, border and scale in Ahmedabad conflict. Geoforum, Vol.40 (6), November, pp. 103-113.

Chatterjee, I. (2009) Deconstructing Vegas: A Class Project? Human Geography, Vol.2 (2), pp83-85.

Chatterjee, I. (2009) Social Conflict and the Neoliberal City: A case of Hindu-Muslim violence in India. In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers vol. 34, Issue 2, pp143-160.

Chatterjee, I. (2008) Method in the Madness: A Social Justice Manifesto for Conflict Analysis. Human Geography, vol. 1(2), pp72-83.

Chatterjee, I. (2007). Packaging of identity and identifiable packages: A case study of women-commodity negotiation through product packaging. Gender Place and Culture, vol.14 (3), pp.293-316.

Chatterjee, I. (2006). Applying Models of Conflict Negotiation to the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Ahmedabad, India: Implications and Lessons. International Journal of Conflict Management, vol. 17 (2) pp.154-174.