Dr Rituparna Bhattacharyya Editor of Space India Journal

RITUPARNA BHATTACHARYYA
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom
Series Editor, Gender & Violence, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom
Visiting Professor, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya
Emails: rituparna.bhattacharyya@iitg.ac.in
rituparna.bhattacharyya@accb.org.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4290-6172
PROFILE
I am an avid academic with expertise in GeoHumanities, particularly in relation to Gender,
Inequalities, Poverty, Violence, Sustainable Development Goals, and Development in the Global
South. I have over two decades of teaching and research experience, with the first seven years
(1996-2003) of my career dedicated solely to classroom teaching. After completing my PhD from the
School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle
University, UK, in 2009, my academic practice has integrated research and teaching (including
classroom and online teaching) across various universities in South Asia. Currently, I worked as an
Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati and currently a Visiting Professor at
the University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya. In addition, I am engaged in contract and
invited teaching across various universities in South Asia and continue to work with publishers,
including Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan, Sage, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, and Wiley.
• On 15 April 2025, I became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of
British Geographers) (Fellowship number:99008849)
• I am a Senior Fellow, Advance HE {Fellowship reference (PR204397)} (formerly Higher
Education Academy), United Kingdom
• In 2018, I accomplished Associate Fellow, Advance HE {Fellowship reference (PR136774)},
(formerly Higher Education Academy), United Kingdom
• Recipient of the Editor of Distinction Award 2026 for Springer Nature Editorial Contribution
Award and for Springer Nature Author Service Award
• I have worked on transnational, interdisciplinary projects spanning the disciplinary boundaries
of Human Geography, Social Work, Sociology, and Women’s Studies.
• I apply a collage of literature linked to feminism, postcolonialism, development, Just Transition
and intersectionality, deploying qualitative methods in triangulation with a questionnaire
survey and quantitative techniques (including GIS).
• I bear excellent teaching skills in the classroom, fostering critical thinking. Consistently
received positive evaluations and feedback from students.
• I have a strong track record of original, high-quality, internationally excellent research
publications in Routledge, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Springer Nature (Palgrave Macmillan),
Elsevier, and John Wiley & Sons. Based on the record of my research publications since
January 2022, I have been selected to be a part of the Times Higher Education World
University Rankings, one of the most prestigious Academic surveys in the world.
• Regularly referenced by researchers. Google Scholar (citations: 1485, h-index: 20, i-10 index:
32)
• Recognised expertise in Geohumanities linked to Politics of Gender, Sexuality, Poverty and
Development. I serve as an anonymous Journal Reviewer of 31 high-quality peer-reviewed
journals. And an accredited Publon (Web of Science) reviewer.
• In May 2026, I was appreciated by the journal Humanities and Social Sciences
Communications for the high level of editorial services for the Journal Humanities and Social
Sciences Communications (nature.com). I have been serving on the Editorial Board of this
journal since July 2023.
• The findings of the ongoing research on India’s Missing Children featured on the front page
of the Danish Newspaper, Christian Daily/Kristeligt Dagblad on 02 October 2019 entitled Hvert
år forsvinder hundredtusinder af børn.
Mange finding olding igen(https://www.kristeligtdagblad.dk/udland/hvert-aar-forsvinder-hundredetusinder-boerni-verden). On 16 October 2019, I was interviewed by BBC (South Asia) on the same project.
• The article titled # Metoo Movement: An Awareness Campaign published in the International
Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 3 (4), Special Edition: Teaching and Training in
Cross Cultural Competencies, 1-12 was written to enhance practice-related awareness
aimed at tackling sexual assaults at the workplaces, thereby promote the practice of
sustainability via collective professional practice in Higher Education globally. On 24 October
2020, I was interviewed by a scholar of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia,
USA on this project #Me too movement. As of 21 August 2024, this paper ranks 768 out of the
top 10,000 papers in the Social Science Research Network (SSRN, Elsevier) and has been
downloaded 8,131 times. Its citation in Google Scholar is 76. My current SSRN Author Rank is
5596 in paper downloads and 47,209 in paper citations out of 749,668 in 65 disciplines, and I
have continuously retained the top 10% of Authors in SSRN by all-time downloads.
• I received the New and Emergent Scholar award in 2011, Journal Gender, Place and Culture,
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, for contributions to Gender and sexuality in South Asia.
• Awarded outstanding contribution in reviewing in 2017, Journal World Development (Elsevier)
• Ability to attract research funding. My PhD was funded jointly by the Overseas Research
Students Awards (ORSA), the Department of Employment and Learning, UK, and the
Newcastle University Overseas Research Scholarship (NUORS).
• Developed Gender Geography Syllabus (drafts) for Gauhati University (2012) and Banaras
Hindu University (2018).
• Founding editor-in-chief of the open-access, blind peer-reviewed SCOPUS-indexed journal
Space and Culture, India (www.spaceandculture.in), which was launched in 2013.
• Since 2011, I have been formally and informally mentoring PhD students/research scholars of
different universities in India and abroad to help them obtain their respective PhDs and
publish articles in outlets of high-quality, peer-reviewed international standing.
• As a Research Consultant, teacher, and editor-in-chief of the journal Space and Culture,
India, I have developed networks across different universities, individual scholars, and other
stakeholders. In so doing, I have built ‘soft power’.
• Actively render voluntary service, especially in advancing gender studies and academic
writing skills in different universities and colleges located in remote parts of India through
Alliance for Community Capacity Building in North East India, a UK-based charity (Charity
Number 1106666) and Prag Foundation for Capacity Building, the public charitable trust of
India.
• Over the years, through pro bono services, I have contributed over INR 13,00000
(approximately £13,000) to the Prag Foundation for Capacity Building, a Public Charitable of
India.
• Sporadically, I am engaged as a blood donor. My recent donations were made on 29-09-
2025 and 17-01-2026 at the Assam State Blood Transfusion Service, organised by Assam
Healthcare Cooperative Limited, in honour of the beloved Assamese singer, Late Zubeen
Garg.
• For the whole month of March 2021, I walked more than 10000 steps daily, covering 435,961
steps for Cancer Research UK and generating £375.50+ £69.38 (Gift aid).
QUALIFICATIONS
2009:
PhD, Newcastle University, UK
Title of the PhD thesis: Changing Status and Role of Indian Middle-Class Women
in Higher Education
1996:
EMPLOYMENT
MA in (Human Geography), Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi, India
First Class First (in MA Geography)
2024-Present:
Series Editor, Gender and Violence, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, London,
SWIP1WG, United Kingdom
2023-Present:
Visiting Professor, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya India.
2022-2025
Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.
2009-Present:
Research Consultant (Independent), Alliance for Community Capacity Building
in North East India
2016 – 2017:
Research Associate, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom,
LE11 3TU
2016-Present:
2013-2016:
Editor-In-Chief (joint), SCOPUS-indexed (Elsevier) journal Space and Culture,
India
Executive Editor, Space and Culture, India
2011- 2012:
In Charge of Skill Development Programme for the youths living below the
poverty line, Mirza, Kamrup District, Assam, India, Prag Foundation for Capacity
Building in association with the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of
India
2003-2004:
Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU
1999-2003:
Lecturer in Geography, Cotton University, Assam, India
1997-1999:
Lecturer in Geography, Bhattadev University, Assam, India
1996-1997:
Lecturer in Geography, Mangaldoi College, Assam, India
EXTERNAL GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS
• A grant from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, UK to
conduct a field study in India on Access to Drinking Water in a Humanitarian Crisis, 2018
• Awarded Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing (2017), Journal World Development
(Elsevier)
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) institutional supported
(Loughborough University) project titled Decentralised Water Treatment System (DWTS) for
Provision of Clean Drinking Water in Humanitarian Crises under Dr Diganta B Das, Reader in
Porous Media, Department of Chemical Engineering, 2016-2017
• A grant from Sunshine University, Australia to review, edit and create the book index of the
book project: The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan: Resilience and Survival, London: Palgrave
Macmillan, Hardback ISBN: 978–1–137–55721–6, DOI: 10.1057/9781137551429 (2014-2015)
• Research Grant for the project titled Domestic Violence Against Women in Sylhet,
Bangladesh, University Research Center, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology,
Sylhet, Bangladesh; Prof. Tulshi Kumar Das (PI), Rituparna Bhattacharyya (Co-PI), Md.
Fakhrul Alam (Co-PI) and Ms Amina Parvin (Co-PI), Department of Social Work, 2011 – 2016
• New and Emergent Scholar, 2011 award from Journal Gender, Place and Culture, A Journal
of Feminist Geography, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for contribution to Gender and
Sexuality in South Asia.
• Travel grant to attend the Second International Conference in Economic Geography,
Beijing, China, 2008.
• Overseas Research Students Awards (ORSA), Department of Employment and Learning, UK
and Newcastle University Overseas Research Scholarship (NUORS) funded my PhD at
Newcastle University, UK.
• National Merit Scholarship (Government of India) to pursue Masters in Human Geography,
Banaras Hindu University (1994-1996)
• Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial award for standing ‘first class with first position’ in BA Geography
(Honours), 1993
EDITORIAL BOARD, JOURNAL & BOOK PROPOSAL REVIEWER & PhD EXAMINER
Associate Editor, Journal Diversity and Inclusion Research, John Wiley & Sons Limited, West Sussex
PO198SQ, United Kingdom
Springer Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Editorial Community
Editorial Board, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Springer Nature
(https://www.nature.com/palcomms/)
Third World Quarterly, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Society, Springer Nature
Sexuality & Culture: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Springer Nature
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, John Wiley & Sons.
Current Sociology, Sage Journals
International Social Science Journal, John Wiley &Sons
Asian Journal of Political Science, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Scrutiny 2, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
National Identities, Taylor & Francis
The International Journal of Human Rights, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Peace Review, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Child & Youth Services, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Journal of Gender Studies, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Journal Heliyon, Elsevier
Journal of Homosexuality, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Violence and Gender Journal, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.Publisher
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, The University of Utah, USA
Cities, Elsevier (Q1)
Body & Society, Sage Journal (Q1)
Journal Deviant Behavior, Routledge, Taylor & Francis (Q1)
Violence Against Women, Sage Journals (Q1)
Asian Ethnicity, Routledge, Taylor & Francis (Q1)
Geojournal, Springer (Q2)
Journal of Regional and City Planning, Institut Teknologi Bandung (Q3)
Women’s Studies International Forum, Elsevier (Q1 & Q2)
Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Elsevier (Q1 & Q2)
Journal Contemporary South Asia, Routledge, Taylor & Francis (Q2 & Q3)
Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal, a peer-reviewed journal of the College of
Arts and Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (currently on hiatus)
Journal World Development, Elsevier (Q1)
Journal Asian Social Work and Policy Review, John Wiley and Sons, Australia (Q3)
Journal Gender, Place and Culture, Routledge, Taylor & Francis (Q1)
Book Proposal Reviewer, Palgrave Macmillan
Book Proposal Reviewer, Routledge, Taylor and Francis
External Expert, Research Advisory Committee, PhD in Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical
Sciences, MIT World Peace University
PhD thesis and Viva-Voce Examiner, Gauhati University, India
OTHER COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS
2026- Convener, Proposed UNESCO Chair, Cotton University, Assam, India
2026-2028 Signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Devicharan Barua Girls’College,
Jorhat, Assam for internationalisation of Higher Education via Research Collaboration
2025-2028 Conference Coordinator, Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group, Royal
Geographical Society (Institute of British Geographers), UK
2024-present
Committee Member, Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group, Royal
Geographical Society (Institute of British Geographers), UK
2023-present Member of the Executive Council of Cotton University, Assam, India
2017 -present
General Secretary (joint), Assam Forum of Great Britain, United Kingdom
2016 – 2018 Vice President, Overseas Alumni Association, Europe Chapter, Gauhati University
2007 -present In Charge of Training and Development, Alliance for Community Capacity
Building in North East India, a UK-registered charity—Charity Number: 1106666 (in association with
Prag Foundation, Assam, India).
ONGOING PROJECTS ON GENDER, SEXUALITY & DEVELOPMENT
• As a conference coordinator, Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group of the
highly prestigious Royal Geographical Society (Institute of British Geographers), I will be coconducting three panels along with Esra Alkim Karaagac, University of Birmingham, UK—
New and Emerging Research in Gender and Feminist Geography1, New and Emerging
Research in Gender and Feminist Geography2,
& New and Emerging Research in Gender and Feminist Geography3, 1-4 September, 2026
Kensington Gore, London, United Kingdom
Conducted a panel titled Ecofeminism and the Environment sponsored by the Gender and
Feminist Geographies Research Group of the highly prestigious Royal Geographical
Society(Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference, Wednesday, 27 to Friday, 29
August 2025, at the University of Birmingham, United
Kingdom.https://ac2025.exordo.com/submissions/panels/mine/372/initial/view
• Guest Editor, Climate Change: Towards a Sustainable Future. Journal Diversity &Inclusion
Research. John Wiley & Sons.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/2835236x/homepage/call-for-papers/si2024-
001217, 2024-2026
• Bhattacharyya, Rituparna, Singh, Rana PB, Sharma Sukanya & Dixit Uday Shankar (in press).
Living Legacies: Heritage Landscapes in Asia-Pacific. Springer Nature, 2022-2026
• Bhattacharyya, Rituparna, Das, Tulshi Kumar, Das, Madhushree & Anand, Subhash.
Everyday Life of LGBTQ+ Community in South Asia. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2024-2026
(under Gender and Violence Series Editorship)
• Impact of #MeToo Movement, 2017-2030
• Gender-based Violence as Genocide, 2023-2030
• The Feminisation of Poverty, 2017- 2028
• Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA), Gender and Security (Preventing Sexual
Violence in Conflict), 2015-2030
• Missing Children of India & Human Trafficking, 2015-2030
• Lives of Widows in Varanasi, 2013-2025 (a joint project with Dr Suman Singh, Professor,
Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005).
PROFESSIONAL FELLOWSHIP/MEMBERSHIP
• Life Member, Society for Pathways to Sustainability, Haryana, India
• Fellow, Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom
• Senior Fellow, Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy), United Kingdom
• Associate Fellow, Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy), United Kingdom
• Life Member, North Eastern Geographer, India
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Significant Publications
Books
Anand Subhash, Bhattacharyya, Rituparna (Corresponding Editor), Das Madhushree, Das,
Tulshi Kumar, & Pradhan, Pushkar (2025). Sustainability of South Asian Cities. International
Geographical Union (IGU) Series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences,
Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7455-5
(https://link.springer.com/book/9789819774548)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2024). Genocides and Xenophobia in South Asia and Beyond: A
Transdisciplinary Perspective on Known, Lesser-known and Unknown Crime of Crimes. New
York and London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis. DOI: 10.4324/9781003205470. ISBN: 978-
1032-02091-4 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-032-07122-0 (pbk) and ISBN: 978-1-003-20547-0 (ebk).
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003205470/genocidesxenophobiasouth-asia-beyond-rituparna-bhattacharyya
Bhattacharyya, R. (2023). North East India Through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Perspective
on Prehistory, History, and Oral History. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
DOI: 10.4324/9781003157816; hard cover ISBN: 978-0-367-74431-1; paperback ISBN: 978-0-
367-74435-9; ebook ISBN: 978-1-003-15781-6,
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003157816/northeast-indiaagesrituparna-bhattacharyya
Anand, S., Das, M., Bhattacharyya, R., and Singh, RB. (2023). Sustainable Development
Goals in Northeast India: Challenges and Achievements. International Geographical Union
(IGU) Series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences, Springer Nature
https://link.springer.com/book/9789811964770
Pulla, V., Bhattacharyya, R., & Bhatt Sanjai (2020). Discrimination, Challenge, and Response:
People of North East India, London: Palgrave Macmillan, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-46251-2;
eBook ISBN:978-3-030-46251-2; Hardcover ISBN:978-3-030-46250-5
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-46251-2
Case Study
Das, T., Bhattacharyya, R., Alam, F., and Parvin, A. (2020). In-depth Semi- structured
Interviewing: Researching Domestic Violence as a Public Health Issue in Bangladesh, SAGE
Research Methods Cases Medicine & Health, Disciplines: Public Health, Online ISBN:
9781529719840, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529719840
Solicited Encyclopaedia Entry
Bhattacharyya, R. (2025). Identity and Geography. In Warf, B. (eds). The Encyclopedia of
Human Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25900-5_133-1
Bhattacharyya, R. (2009). Feminist Political Economy. In R. Kitchin and N. Thrift (eds.). The
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Oxford: Elsevier, Vol.4, pages 79-86.
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00159-0
Journal Articles
Bhattacharyya, Rituparna, Sarma, Dhurjjati & Parasar, Siddhartha Sunom (2026).
Xenophobia, Necrospace and Genocide in Bangladesh: Unveiling Histories of Violence and
Structural Erasure. National Identities. DOI – 10.1080/14608944.2026.2657466 (Taylor & Francis)
Bhattacharjee, P., Das, T.K. & Bhattacharyya, R. (2026). Stigma-Driven Trauma and Coping
Strategies of Women Experiencing Infertility in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Exploration.
Sexuality & Culture. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-026-10568-9 (Springer Nature)
Biswas, D. & Bhattacharyya, R. (2025). Borderland as a necrospace: Identity, ethnoterritoriality and narcotrade in Manipur. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
12, 1299. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05457-9 (Springer Nature)
Bhattacharyya, R., Sarma, P.K. & Das, T.K. (2023). Mass exodus of India’s internal migrant
labourers during the first phase of COVID-19: a critical analysis. SN Social Sciences 3, 108.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-023-00691-x Springer Nature)
Das, T.K., Bhattacharyya, R. & Sarma, P.K. (2022). Revisiting geographies of nationalism and
national identity in Bangladesh. GeoJournal 87, 1099–1120.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708020-10305-1 (Springer Nature)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2019). Symbolic Violence and Misrecognition: Scripting Gender among
Middle-class Women, India, Society and Culture in South Asia, 5(1), 19-46, DOI:
10.1177/2393861718787870 (Sage)
Bhattacharyya, R., Das, T., Alam, F and Parvin Amina (2018). Researching Domestic Violence
in Bangladesh: Critical Reflections,
Journal Ethics and Social Welfare,
https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2018.1458889, 314-329 (Routledge, Taylor and Francis)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2018). Living with Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) as Everyday
Life, GeoJournal, 83(1), 31-48, DOI: 10.1007/s10708-016-9752-9 (Springer Nature)
Bhattacharyya, R. and Singh, S. (2018). Exclusion (and seclusion): Geographies of Disowned
Widows of India, GeoJournal, 83 (4), 757–774, DOI: 10.1007/s10708-017-9800-0 (Springer
Nature)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2017). Sociologies of India’s Missing Children, Asian Social Work and Policy
Review, 11(1), 90-101, DOI:10.1111/aswp.12116 (Wiley)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2016). Street Violence against Indian Women in India: Mapping Prevention
Strategies, Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 10 (3), 311-325, DOI
1111/aswp.12099 (Wiley).
Das, T., Bhattacharyya, R. Alam, F., and Parvin, A. (2016). Domestic Violence in Sylhet,
Bangladesh: Analysing the Experiences of Abused Women, Journal Social Change, 46 (1),
106-123, DOI: 10.1177/0049085715618561(Sage Journals)
Das, T., Alam, F., Bhattacharyya, R. and Parvin, A. (2015). Causes and Contexts of Domestic
Violence: Tales of the Help Seeking Married Women in Sylhet, Bangladesh, Asian Social
Work and Policy Review, 9(2), 163–176, DOI:10.1111/aswp.12055 (Wiley).
Bhattacharyya, R. (2015). Understanding the Spatialities of Sexual Assault against Indian
women in India, Journal Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 22(9),
1340-1356 DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2014.969684 (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group).
Videos
Bhattacharyya, R. (2021). Researching Street Sexual Harassment As a Public Health Problem
in India. SAGE Research Methods [Video]: Medicine and Health (case study).
https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781529778212 (preview link:
https://methods.sagepub.com/video/researching-street-sexual-harassment-as-apublichealth-issue-in-india)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2022). Conducting sensitive public health research in India [Video].
SAGE Research Methods Video: Research Ethics and Integrity(tutorial video).
https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529791969 (preview link:
https://methods.sagepub.com/video/conducting-sensitive-public-health-researchinindia?seq=4&fromsearch=true)
Book Chapters
Bhattacharyya, Rituparna (in press). Semiotics of Gender-based Violence as Genocide. In
Trickett, Loretta, Zempi, Irene & Smith, Jo (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Violence Against
Women and Girls. Palgrave Macmillan
Singh, Suman & Bhattacharyya, R. (in press). Widows of the Ashram Communities of Varanasi
Practicing Sisterhood. In Murti Lata et al. (eds). Women of Color in Community: Ties that Thrive.
Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-032-22363-0
Bhattacharyya, Rituparna and Prasad, Sanjay (forthcoming). Socioeconomics and Caste
Census of India using GIS. In Thakur Rajiv, Brunn Stan, Thakur, Baleshwar & Dhussa, Ramesh
(EDs.). Environment, Development and Culture in South and East Asia: Local, Regional and
International Perspectives. Springer Nature
Bhattacharyya, R and Singh, Suman (2026). Transformation of Higher Education in India. In
Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang and Ewelina K. Niemczyk (Eds). Transformations of Higher Education
in BRICS Policy, Procedures, and Practice (pp. 157-174). (Routledge, Taylor & Francis). DOI:
10.4324/9781003669487-12
Bhattacharyya, R. (2021). Pierre Bourdieu’s Symbolic Violence: Scripting Gender among
Assamese Middle-Class Women in Higher Education. In Anindita Dutta (ed.). Gender, Space
and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes, 15-33 (Routledge)
Bhattacharyya, R. and Prasad Sanjay (2020). Water Scarcity in Delhi: Mapping for Solutions
and the Way Forward. In Dr R.B. Singh, Bathula Srinagesh and Subhash Anand (eds.). Urban
Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities (Springer), DOI:10.1007/978-981-15-1205-6_24,
pp.421-444
Bhattacharyya, R. and Prasad Sanjay (2020). Chapter 15: Geographies of Indian Women’s
Everyday Public Safety. In Rajiv Thakur, Ashok Dutt, Sudhir Thakur, George Pomeroy
(eds.).Urban and Regional Planning and Development: 20th Century Forms and 21st Century
Transformations, Springer, Cham, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31776-8_15, Print ISBN
978-3-030-31775-1, Online ISBN 978-3-030-31776-8, 243-260, pp. 243-260.
Bhattacharyya, R. (2019). Chapter Six: Did India’s Partition lead to Segregation of North East
India? In A. Ranjan. (ed). Partition of India: Postcolonial Legacies. Oxon and New York:
Routledge, 105-131
Book Reviews
Bhattacharyya, R. (2023). Semiotics of rape: Sexual subjectivity and violation in rural India.
Asian Studies Review. DOI:10.1080/10357823.2023.2260520 (Publisher:
Routledge Journals)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2019). Child Sponsorship: Exploring Pathways to a Brighter Future. Progress
in Development Studies, 19(1), 83-84, https://doi.org/10.1177/1464993418799895 (Publisher:
Sage Journals)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2017). What Gender is, What Gender Does, Journal Gender, Place and
Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2017.1338432 (Publisher:
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group).
Bhattacharyya, R. (2017). The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan: Resilience and Survival, Journal
South Asia Research, 37 (1), 113-115, DOI:10.1177/0262728016663300 (Publisher: Sage
Journals)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2016). Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India, Journal
Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 1813-1814,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2016.1211585 (Publisher: Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Group).
Bhattacharyya, R. (2015). Some Aspects of Community Empowerment and Resilience, Journal
Social Change, 45(4) 628-632, DOI: 10.1177/0049085715602795 (Publisher: Sage Journals)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2015). Working Childhoods: Youth, Agency and the Environment in India.
Progress in Development Studies, 15(3), 292-294, DOI: 10.1177/1464993415578570 (Publisher:
Sage Journals)
OTHER PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Book
Bhattacharyya, R. (2013). Are We Empowered? Stories of young Indian working women,
Saarbrücken, Germany: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, (ISBN: 978-3-659-20580-4)
Book Chapters
Bhattacharyya, R. (2017). Economic Reforms, Higher Education, and New Career
Aspirations: Findings from a Study of Indian women in Higher Education. In Baleshwar Thakur,
H.S.Sharma, Suresh Mishra and S. Chattopadhyay (eds.). Regional Development: Theory
and Practice (In 5 Volumes), New Delhi: Concept Publishing (ISBN: 9789351252023)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2017). Feminisation of Poverty: A Global Phenomenon. In Baleshwar
Thakur, H.S.Sharma, Suresh Mishra and S. Chattopadhyay (eds.). Regional Development:
Theory and Practice (In 5 Volumes), New Delhi: Concept Publishing (ISBN: 9789351252023)
Bhattacharyya, R., Vauquline, P. and Singh, S. (2011). Towards a Socially Sustainable India:
An Analysis of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, 2006, in S.K. Singh, Raj Kumar,
H.P. Mathur, N.B. Singh and V.K. Kumra (eds.). Energy Resources, Alternative Search and
Sustainable Development, New Delhi: Shree Publishers, pages 73-88, (ISBN: 978-81-8329-395-
2)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2008). Marriage, motherhood and career salience: young women in the
contemporary society of Assam, in edited by A. K. Ray and B. Dutta Ray (eds.) Women
Emancipation: Focus North East India, New Delhi: Om Publications, pages 163-182, (ISBN:
8186867-85-6)
Guides (Compilation)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2011). Academic Writing, North Shields: ACCB Publisheing.
Bhattacharyya, R. (2011). Searching Scholarly Information on the Web, North Shields: ACCB
Publishing (ISBN: 9781908368010)
Other Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Bhattacharyya, R. (2026). Life Against Deathworlds: Bangladesh’s July Charter 2025 and the
Reconfiguration of Power, Space and Culture, India, 13(4), pp. 124–132.
doi:10.20896/w0c30g89
Bhattacharyya, R. (2024). #Metoo Movement: Backlash or Rhetoric. Journal Space and
Culture, India. 12(3).10-33. https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v12i3.1213
Bhattacharyya, R. (2023). Human Trafficking: A Call for Action Research. Space and Culture,
India, 11(3), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v11i3.1451
Pulla, V., Bhattacharyya, R., & Lafain, R. (2022). Race and Ethnicity in the Pandemic. Space
and Culture, India, 10(3), 6–18. https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v10i3.1264
Kumar Sarma, P., & Bhattacharyya, R. (2021). Assembly Elections of India, 2021: Revisiting
Assam. Space and Culture, India, 9(1), 6-28. https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v9i1.1189
Bhattacharyya, R. (2021). Sarah Everard & Nirbhaya: Comparisions and Commonalities.
Space and Culture, India, 8(4), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v8i4.1175
Singh, Suman & Bhattacharyya, R. (2020). A Review of Domestic Violence against Women in
India during Lockdown. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change. Special
Edition: COVID-19 Life Beyond, Volume 14 No 6, 230-242. www.ijicc.net.
Bhattacharyya, R, Sarma, Pranjit Kumar & Nath, Manjit Nath (2020). COVID-19 and India’s
Labour Migrant Crisis. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change. Special
Edition: COVID-19 Life Beyond, Volume 14 No 6, 243-258. www.ijicc.net.
Bhattacharyya, R. & Pulla, V. (2019). Prime Minister Modi Returns, 2019: New Governance
Agenda. Space and Culture, India, 7(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v7i1.569
Bhattacharyya, R. (2018). # Metoo Movement: An Awareness Campaign, International
Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 3 (4), Special Edition: Teaching and Training in
Cross Cultural Competencies, 1-12
Bhattacharyya,
R.
(2017). India Rising. Space and Culture,
India,
5(1), 1-11. doi:10.20896/saci.v5i1.258
Bhattacharyya, R. (2016). Draft Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2016: Rhetoric or Surrogate-centric?
Journal Space and Culture, India, 4(2), 9-21, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v4i2.219
Bhattacharyya, R. (2016). Balancing Motherhood And Career In STEM Jobs, Journal Space
and Culture, India, 3(3), 28-31, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v3i3.178
Bhattacharyya, R. (2016). An Account of India’s under-5 Mortality Rate, International Journal
of Social Work and Human Services Practice, 4(4), 82-88, DOI:10.13189/ijrh.2016.040402
Sarma, J.B. and Bhattacharyya, R. (2015). Half Empty or half filled? Notes on Universal Health
Coverage in Northeast India, The Clarion, 4 (1), 154-184.
Bhattacharyya, R. (2014). Good Governance and Development Mandate, Journal Space
and Culture, India, 2(1), 1-4, DOI:10.20896/saci.v2i1.65

Bhattacharyya, R. (2014). Life and Times of Unborn Kamla, Journal Space and Culture, India,
2(2), 57-58, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v2i2.89
Meena, M.L., Singh, S. and Bhattacharyya, R. (2014). After the Kosi Avulsion, August 2008,
North Bihar, India: Notes on the Socio-economic Impact, Journal Asian Profile, 42(3), 203-220,
Asian Research Service, Canada V5H 4J8
Bhattacharyya, R. (2013). Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013: Will it ensure women’s safety
in public spaces? Journal Space and Culture, India, 1 (1), 13-27, DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v1i1.11 (ISSN: 2052-8396)
Bhattacharyya, R. and Vauquline, P. (2013). A Mirage or a Rural Life Line? Analysing the
impact of Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act on Women Beneficiaries of Assam
Assam,
Journal Space and Culture, India,
1(1), 83-101, DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v1i1.10 (ISSN: 2052-8396)
Bhattacharyya, R., Meena M.L. and Singh, S. (2013). Some Reflections of the Geographies of
Socio-Economic Impact of the Kosi River Floods, 2008, Journal of Earth Science and
Engineering 1, 57-65, David Publishing: EL Monte, USA (ISSN: 2159-581X)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2013). Volga River in R.W. Howarth (ed.) Biomes and Ecosystems: An
Encyclopedia, Salem Press: A Division of EBSCO Publishing Ipswich, Massachusetts
Hackensack, New Jersey, USA (ISBN: 978-1-4298-3813-9)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2013). Vistula Estuary in R.W. Howarth (ed.) Biomes and Ecosystems: An
Encyclopedia, Salem Press: A Division of EBSCO Publishing Ipswich, Massachusetts
Hackensack, New Jersey, USA (ISBN: 978-1-4298-3813-9)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2013). Irrawaddy Moist Deciduous Forests in R.W. Howarth (ed.) Biomes and
Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia, Salem Press: A Division of EBSCO Publishing Ipswich,
Massachusetts Hackensack, New Jersey, USA (ISBN: 978-1-4298-3813-9)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2012). Parsons, Charles in M.A. Pierce (ed.) Encyclopedia of Energy, Salem
Press: A Division of EBSCO Publishing Ipswich, Massachusetts Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
(ISBN: 978-1-58765-849-5)
Bhattacharyya, R. and Sarma, J.B. (2012). Building research capacity in resource limited
countries, The Clarion: International Multidisciplinary Journal, 1(2), pages, 168-181, (ISSN:
22771697)
Bhattacharyya, R. (2004). Conducting in-depth interviews in Assam, North Eastern
Geographer 33(1/ 2), pages 79-87,
Bhattacharyya, R. (1997). Role of women in the use of domestic energy: A case study of poor
families in and around Gauhati University Campus, Guwahati, North Eastern Geographer 28
(1 and 2), pages 70-71
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PAPERS
• Encoded Brutality: Interpreting Gender-Based Violence as Genocidal Signification, 2026,
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Annual International
Conference, 1-4 September 2026, Kensington Gore, London, United Kingdom
• Resilient Futures: Urbanization, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development Policy in a
Changing World (Panellist), The 18th International Asian Urbanization Conference, 04-08
August 2026, Sindhu Central University, Union Territory of Ladakh, India
• Education, Modernity & Tribal Identity Formation (Resource Person), 30 April & 01 May 2026,
Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), Ministry of Education, Government of India
• Conference of the Parties (COP)and India’s Stand Towards Sustainability (Panellist),
International Conference on Sustainable Development, 10-11 November 2025, The Society
for Pathways to Sustainability (PathS), in association with the North Eastern Hill University,
Shillong, India
• Medha Patkar and Frontline Women in Environmental Activism (co-presenter, Professor
Venkat Pulla, James Cook University, Australia) Ecofeminism and the Environment 2 sponsored
by the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group of the highly prestigious Royal
Geographical Society(Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference, Wednesday, 27
to Friday, 29 August 2025, at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
• Mis(use) of Section 498A: A Critical Analysis of Indian Fe(male) Victimisation, 2022, Royal
• Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Annual International
Conference, 30 August- 02 September 2022, Newcastle University, UK
• The Imbroglio: Geographies of India’s Missing Children, 2017 American Association of
• Geographers Annual Meeting, 5-9 April 2017, Hynes Convention Center, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA
• Sexual Violence in Conflict and India’s Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act Quagmire, 3
• September at Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual
International Conference 2015 held at the University of Exeter, 1 – 4 September 2015
• Scripting the Lives of Widows in the Briddha Ashrams of Varanasi (with Dr Suman Singh)
September at Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual
International Conference 2015 held at the University of Exeter, 1 – 4 September 2015
• Gender Discrimination in Assam (with Ms Rimili Das), 5 September 2015, Assam Forum Great
Britain Conference, London School of Economics, London
• Can we save Majuli?, presented at Assam Forum Great Britain Conference, London School of
Economics, London, 13 September 2014.
• Natural hazards reshape the map of Majuli, presented at Assam Forum Great Britain
Conference, London School of Economics, London, 1 June 2013.
• Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY): An analysis of the attitudes and lived
experiences of the Kamrup Centre, Assam’ presented at the annual conference of Royal
Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers), Edinburgh, UK, 03-05 July 2012
• Social geographies of street sexual harassment: an analysis from India presented at the
Gendered Violence conference, Bristol, UK, 23 – 25 November 2011
• Problems of women labourers at Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act: An
analysis from Assam presented at the International Seminar “Contextualizing Geographical
Approaches to Studying Gender in Asia”, organised by the International Geographical Union
Commission on Gender and Geography in collaboration with the Department of Geography,
University of Delhi and the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, 03
March 2010
• Pierre Bourdieu’s symbolic violence: Findings from a study of Assamese middle class women
in higher education presented at the International Seminar “Contextualizing Geographical
Approaches to Studying Gender in Asia”, organised by the International Geographical Union
Commission on Gender and Geography in collaboration with the Department of Geography,
University of Delhi and the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, 04
March 2010
• Towards a socially sustainable India: An analysis of National Rural Employment Guarantee
Scheme, 2006’ presented at the International Conference on Strategic Management of
Energy, Environment and Disaster for Sustainable Development organised by Global Strategic
• Management Inc, Saxon Drive, Beverly Hills, Michigan, the USA in collaboration with Banaras
Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 11-15 January 2010
• Impact of global economic crisis on India’s Flagship Social Welfare Programmes and Way
Forward: A focus on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (education for all mission) presented at the
International Conference on Strategic Management of Energy, Environment and Disaster for
• Sustainable Development organised by Global Strategic Management Inc, Saxon Drive,
• Beverly Hills, Michigan, the USA in collaboration with Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India,
11-15 January 2010
• Selective Westernisation: An example from Assam, presented at the Second Global
Conference on Economic Geography held in Beijing, China, 25-28 June 2007
• A reflection on conducting fieldwork in developing countries: Lessons from India, a joint
paper presented by Urmi Sengupta and me, at a workshop ‘Going Back Home: International
Fieldwork for International Scholars’, organised by The Developing Areas Research Network
(DARN), University of Newcastle, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, 06 June 2006
• Marriage, motherhood and career salience: A study of young women in the contemporary
society of Assam, a paper presented at the Royal Geographical Society –Institute of British
Geographers, Annual Conference held in London, 28-31 August 2006
• Attitudes of students in Assam towards Increase in sexual harassment against women in the
public sphere a paper presented in the Royal Geographical Society –Institute of British
Geographers Post Graduate Forum Mid-term Conference, 04 March 2006
• Researching on Assamese women’s changing status and role: Reflection on its different
methodological issues, a paper presented at the Annual Academic Session, North-East India
Geographical Society, organised by Department of Geography, Cotton College, 24 May 2023.