Talk:Devleena Ghosh

By Rutvi Dattani

Devleena Ghosh is an Honorary Professor in the School of Communications in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Technology Sydney, as of November 2022. According to her university profile, her research interests lie in the fields of colonial, postcolonial, environmental and gender studies, specifically in the Indian Ocean region.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

Book Chapters

1. Ghosh, Devleena. "The Bones of Our Mother: Adivasi Dispossession in an Indian State." The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History, 2022, pp. 443-463.
2. Ghosh, Devleena. "From Coal to Renewables: Changing Socio-Ecological Relations of Energy in India, Australia, and Germany." The Role of Public Participation in Energy Transitions, 2020, pp. 93-104.
3. Ghosh, Devleena. "Rights and Coercion: Adivasi Rights and Coal Mining in Central India." Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South, 2020, pp. 93-104.
4. Ghosh, Devleena. "Climate Technology and Climate Justice: Energy Transitions in Germany, India and Australia." Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice, 2019, pp. 237-250.
5. Ghosh, Devleena. "Not as a Stranger or a Tourist’: Leonora Gmeiner and the First Girls’ School in Delhi." Indians and the Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries and Circulation, 2018, pp. 181-209.
6. Ghosh, Devleena. "Green Marketing and Green Consciousness in India." Green Asia: Ecocultures, Sustainable Lifestyles, and Ethical Consumption, 2017, pp. 37-50.
7. Ghosh, Devleena. "Sweet Dreams are Made of This: Bollywood and Transnational South Asians in Australia." Bollywood in Australia: Transnationalism & Cultural Production, 2010, pp. 159-176.
8. Ghosh, Devleena. "'Harem Women Seem the Happiest to Me' Novel Women, Fictions of Domesticity and National Development in India." Women, Activism and Social Change: Stretching Boundaries, 2005, pp. 157-178.
9. Ghosh, Devleena. "The Best-Seller and the Media Empire: The Case of Bengal 1947-1983." Essays in Honour of Yasmine Gooneratne, 1999.

Journal Articles:

1. Ghosh, Devleena. "Reimagining Asia: Indian and Australian Women Crossing Borders." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 53, no. 4, 2019, pp. 1183-1221.
2. Ghosh, Devleena. "We Don't Want to Eat Coal’: Development and its Discontents in a Chhattisgarh District in India." Energy Policy, vol. 99, 1 Dec. 2016, pp. 252-260.
3. Ghosh, Devleena. "Burma–Bengal Crossings: Intercolonial Connections in Pre-Independence India." Asian Studies Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 21 Mar. 2016, pp. 156-172.
4. Ghosh, Devleena. "Beyond the 'Poison of Prejudice': Indian and Australian Women Talk About the White Australia Policy." History Australia, vol. 12, no. 1, Apr. 2015, pp. 116-140.
5. Ghosh, Devleena. "'Who is Grace?': Affect, Work, and Gender in Bangalore Call Centres." Globalisations, vol. 10, no. 3, Jan. 2013, pp. 397-409.
6. Ghosh, Devleena. "India/Cinema: An Archive of Politics and Pleasure." Continuum Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 26, no. 6, Jan. 2012, pp. 799-802.
7. Ghosh, Devleena. "Geopolitics And The Cold War Developmental State In Asia: From The Culture Of National Development To The Development Of National Culture In Independent India." Geopolitics, vol. 15, no. 3, Jan. 2010, pp. 586-605.
8. Ghosh, Devleena. "Water Out of Fire: Novel Women, National Fictions and the Legacy of Nehruvian Developmentalism in India." The World Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 6, Jan. 2001, pp. 951-967.