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Moushumi Basu

Moushumi Basu

Moushumi Basu
Moushumi Basu
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for International Politics, Organisation & Disarmament,
School of International Studies
Room No
320
Off. Phone
011-26704601
Residence
09810371257
Email
mbasu@mail.jnu.ac.in , moushumi.basu@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

Ph.D. (JNU)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

International Organizations and Issues of Development, Labour Migration and Human Rights
Doctoral thesis on ‘The World Bank and its Lending to the Social Sector in India’ and Post-doctoral research ‘On the limits and shortcomings of the neo-liberal thesis as an equitable and sustainable model of development’ have been the primary areas of research
 

Papers Presented on these themes include:

 ‘Factoring in Subaltern Narratives into IR: Trade, Growth, and Development’ in Workshop ‘Exploring the Local in International Relations’, organized by the Global South Caucus of the International Studies Association, University of Havana, Havana, 8 July 2017.

‘Multilateral Organizations and the Making of Global Norms: A Subaltern Critique’, at World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Montreal, 9 July 2014

‘Violent Trajectories of Growth: Social Friction and Twenty Years of Economic Liberalization in India’ at World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Madrid, 11 July 2012.

Experience

Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore (2006).
Visiting Fellow, School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex (2005).

Courses Taught:

Winter Semester

MPhil : International Economic and Financial Organizations (IO635)

M.A (IRAS): Political Economy (IA416)

Monsoon Semester

MPhil : International Regional Organizations (IO637)

B.A (optional): Introduction to the UN System (IO 202)

Awards & Honours

The Charles Wallace India Trust Research Fellowship, 2008
Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex ,2005. 

International Collaboration/Consultancy
Geographical Indications as Instruments of Development: Strengthening the Local Knowledge-Livelihood Nexus, Project ID. 118, Under UPE II (ongoing)
Co-director of International and Comparative Human Rights Law Practicum (20 December 2013 to 10 January 2014), organized by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Migration Flows, Labour Market Policies and Social Friction, undertaken as part of a larger academic study, “Transformation and Friction in Globalizing India”, being funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). (March 2011 – April 2012).
Best Peer Reviewed Publications

* ‘Partitioning of Minds and the Legitimisation of Difference’ in Sanjeev Jain and Alok Sarin ed..,( 2018) The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India, Sage: New Delhi, pp.60-76.
* ‘A Subaltern Reading of International Organisations and Issues of Order, Disorder and Marginality’, (2017), South Asian Survey, Vol.21 (1&2), pp.164-179.
* ‘Capitalist Development and Informalization of Labour Markets in India’ in Irudaya Rajan ed.(2013), India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration, Routledge ,London , pp.270-282.
* ‘Non-State Actors in the Development Aid World as Seen from the South’ in Reinalda, B ed., (2011), The Ashgate Research Companion to Non-State Actors, Ashgate, Abingdon.
* ‘Negotiating Aid: World Bank and Primary Education in India’ (2006), Contemporary Education Dialogue, vol. 3:2, pp.133-154.
* Sengupta, Arjun., Negi, Archna, and Basu, Moushumi., ed., Reflections on the Right to Development (2005), SAGE, New Delhi. 

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.