Dr. Atreyee Sen, Research Council United Kingdom (RCUK) Fellow in Conflict, Cohesion and Change
Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
E-mail: Atreyee.Sen@manchester.ac.uk
My areas of research interest are gender, conflict, women's militancy, child-soldiering, urban anthropology and religious fundamentalism; my regional focus is South Asia. My doctoral dissertation focused on the experiences of poor right-wing women and children (in the Bombay slums), and their engagement with violent political projects in western India. It has recently been published as Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum, Hurst and Co, London (2007).
I am currently working on two research projects. The first explores the survival strategies of Muslim children displaced by communal riots in Gujarat (2002) and relocated in slums in Hyderabad, a city in southern India. The second project focuses on experiences of police torture, cultures of confinement and reconstruction of life among extreme left-wing activists in Calcutta (in eastern India) over the last three decades. At the University of Manchester, I am involved in teaching courses related to war and conflict, ethno-nationalism and minorities, gender and sexuality and South Asia (in CIDRA and the Religions and Theology Department).
Select publications:
2008 (forthcoming): 'Retelling Violence: Memories and Migration in Urban Slums' in Manali Desai, Parama Roy and Piya Chatterjee (eds), States of Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Violence in South Asia, Zubaan Books: New Delhi.
2007 (forthcoming): Co-edited with David Pratten, 'Global Vigilantes: Perspectives on Violence and Justice', C. Hurst and Co. Publishers, London.
2007 (forthcoming): 'Everyday and Extraordinary Violence: Right-wing Women and Raw Justice in the Bombay Slums' in David Pratten and Atreyee Sen (eds), Global Vigilantes: Perspectives on Violence and Justice, C. Hurst and Co. Publishers, London, pp 69-92.
2007 (forthcoming): 'Militants' in International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, Macmillan Reference, USA
2007: 'Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum', C. Hurst and Co. Publishers, London
2007: 'Hindu Nationalism and Failing Development Goals: Micro-finance, Women and Illegal Livelihoods in the Bombay Slums' in James Staples (ed), Livelihoods on the Margins: Surviving the City, Left Coast Press Inc., pp. 101-126.
2006: 'Reflecting on Resistance: Hindu Women Soldiers Remember the Birth of Female Militancy', in Indian Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 13(1), Sage Publications, New Delhi, pp 1-35.
2004: 'Mumbai and the Search for a Heart: Ethics, Ethnography and the Dilemmas of Studying Urban Conflict', in Anthropology Matters, vol 6 (1), Special Issue on Cities. url: http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2004-1/sen_2004_mumbai.pdf