Gautam GHOSH

Publications

Gautam GHOSH
Title:

Associate Professor

Education Background:
BA (Northwestern University, USA)

MA (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

PHD (University of Chicago, USA)
Teaching Area

Anthropology, International Studies, Globalization, Asian Studies

Other

Another email: gghosh2@gmail.com (BEST to use BOTH university -- gautamghosh@cuhk.edu.cn -- and this gghosh2@gmail.com).

Research

Global Studies; Education; Social Change; Cultural and Political Theory; Religion; Migration & Multiculturalism; Time & Temporality; Cyberia; South Asia; Asian-Americans.

PublicationsInfo

Edited Book:


·         Gautam Ghosh (lead editor) and Jacqui Leckie (ed), Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, University of Otago Press, 2015. 316 pages. E-book: March 2017.


Chapter in Book:

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         Ghosh, G. (2021). "Nation, Religion, and Duration in India,", in Ghosh (ed) The 1947 Partition in the East and North-East: Trends and Trajectories. 13,445 words, plus 7 author-generated images/graphs. Hardback: ISBN: 978-1-138-06237-5 ); Softcover: ISBN: 978-1-032-11456-9 ; E-Book: ISBN: 978-1-003-22000-8.

 

·         Ghosh, G. (2017).  "Introduction: Multi-Multiculturalisms in the New New Zealand." In Ghosh & Leckie (Eds.), Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 7-36). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, December 2017.


·          Ghosh, G. (2009). “The (Un) Braiding of Time in the 1947 Partition of British India,” Anthony Grafton and Marc Rodriquez (eds), Migration in History: Human Migration in Comparative Perspective. In series published by University of Rochester Press on behalf of the Davis Center of Princeton University, pp. 53-85.


Journal - Research Article:

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       Ghosh, G. (2019). "Nobility or Utility? Zamindars, Businessmen, and bhadralok as Curators of the Indian nation in Satyajit Ray's Jalsaghar (The Music Room)." Modern Asian StudiesCambridge U Press (open access). doi: 10.1017/S0026749X16000482, 2017.


        Ghosh, G. (2018). "Multi-Dimensional Change and the Question of Comparison," forthcoming in COMPASO: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology. 8000 words.


·         Ghosh, G. (2015). An 'Infiltration' of Time? Hindu Chauvinism and Bangladeshi Migration in/to Kolkata, India. Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 6(1), 263-288.


·         Ghosh, G. (2006). A Response to Six Questions. Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (Kolkata), 3, 5-7.


Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract:

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            Ghosh, G. (2016). "Awesome Ethics and Impossible Professors: Nation, Cultivation, and Inclusion in India" Proceedings of the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) Conference: Moral Horizons. Retrieved from http://www.nomadit.co.uk/aas/aas2015/authors.php5


·         Ghosh, G. (2014). "Converting Forced Migration Into Voluntary Association Through Ritual" 17th Annual Nordic Migration Conference: Flows, Places and Boundaries: Migratory Challenges and New Agendas. (pp. 105). Retrieved from http://www.sfi.dk/abstract_book-12827.aspx

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        Ghosh, G. (2011). "Patronizing progress in Great(er) Bengal." Proceedings of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Australian Anthropological Society and Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/NZ (IUAES/AAS/ASAANZ) Conference: Knowledge and Value in a Globalising World: Disentangling Dichotomies, Querying Unities. Retrieved from http://www.anthropologywa.org/iuaes_aas_asaanz_conference2011/


·         Ghosh, G. (2011). "Pre/Occupying the People" Postcolonial Studies Research Network Conference: Citizenship in an Era of Global Crisis. Retrieved from http://mfco.ac.nz/citizencrisis/index.html%3Fq=abstracts.html


·         Ghosh, G. (2009). "Communities, communitas and political theology in Cyberia" Proceedings of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ASAANZ) Conference. Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/asaanz/


Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs:


·         Ghosh, G. (2014, June). "Divisions of Grandeur: Glory and Irony after the Partitions of Bengal" Verbal presentation at the Long History of Partition in Eastern India Workshop, Wellington, New Zealand.


·         Ghosh, G. (2013, November). "Multiculturalism in/and/as "the Asian century" Verbal presentation at the 20th New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA) International Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.


·         Ghosh, G. (2011, November). "People's power as Collective Agency" Verbal presentation at the Perspectives on Power Conference, Brisbane, Australia.


·         Ghosh, G. (2009, June). "Hindu civilization and its contents" Verbal presentation at the ′The New Exotic?′ Postcolonialism and Globalisation Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.


·         Ghosh, G. (2009, December). "Communities, Communitas and Political Theology in Cyberia" Invited presentation at the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ASAANZ) Conference, Picton, New Zealand.


·         Ghosh, G. (2007, May-June). "Godspeed! Citizenship and Chauvinism in Transnational Hindutva" Verbal presentation at the Proceedings of the Secularism and Beyond International Conference: Comparative Perspectives, Copenhagen, Denmark.


·         Ghosh, G. (2007, May). "Godspeed! Equality Re-calculated in the Global Hindu Avante-garde" Verbal presentation at the Canadian Anthropology Society and the American Ethnological Society (CASCA-AES) Conference: Indigeneities and Cosmopolitanisms, Toronto, Canada.


Other Research Output:


·         Ghosh, G. (2015, February). "Divisions of Grandeur: Nation, Partition, and representation in Bengal." South Asia Seminar Series, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. [invited Seminar].


·         Ghosh, G. (2014, December). "Divisions of Grandeur: Nation, partition and representation in Bengal. South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. [Invited Seminar].


·         Huat, C. B., Schonthal, B., Voci, P., Hill, D., Ghosh, G., Devadas, V., & Nicholls, B. (2013). "The Asian Century: Encounters and exchanges" University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Roundtable Discussion].


·         Ghosh, G. (2010, December). "Time's sovereign. Invited lecture at the Department of Anthropology Lecture Series, Reed College, Portland, Oregon." [Invited Lecture]


·         Ghosh, G. (2010). "The Sacrifice of Sovereignty, and Vice Versa" Invited seminar at the School of Social and Cultural Studies Seminar Series, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. [Invited Seminar].


·         Ghosh, G. (2008, February). "Alien Rights: Migration, Religion, and Sovereignty in Global Citizenship." Invited lecture at the Anthropology Department, Haverford College, Pennsylvania. [Invited Lecture].


·         Ghosh, G. (2008, February). "India: Large and Small, Then and Now." Invited lecture at the Department of Sociology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. [Invited Lecture].


·         Ghosh, G. (2008, February). "Hindu Citizenship and Chauvinism." Invited lecture at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. [Invited Lecture].


·         Ghosh, G. (2007, December). "Citizenship, Civilization, and the Migration of Hindu Nationalism" Invited lecture at James Madison College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. [Invited Lecture].


·         Ghosh, G. (2006). "The Privileges of Citizenship in Transnational Time." Invited lecture at the Sacred Cows & False Prophets: Traversing History and Religion in South Asia Lecture Series, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. [Invited Lecture].