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Rakhee Bhattacharjee

Rakhee Bhattacharjee
Rakhee Bhattacharjee
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Special Centre for the Study of North East India
Room No
410, SSS-I
Email
rakhee[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in , rakhee_2k[at]hotmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/rakhee/cv.pdf
Qualifications

Ph. D. in Economics, 1998 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Development economics, regional and trans-regional economies, geo-economics and geo-politics, conflict and security issues, economy-ecology, India’s North-Eastern Region and its neighbouring nations.

Experience

Worked at various National and Government Research Institutes as Fellow, Consultant, Co-Ordinator and Associate Director for 12 years. Taught in the University of Calcutta, Department of South and Southeast Asia as Visiting Faculty and Shillong College, Department of Economics as Senior Lecturer for 14 years.

Awards & Honours

Awarded Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellowship in University of South Australia, Adelaide, 2008

International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. Capital and Ecology: Developmentalism, Subjectivity and Alternative Life-worlds, London: Routledge, (with A. Sharma). London: Routledge, ISBN: 9781003424420, 2023
  2. Developmentalism as Strategy: Interrogating Post-colonial Narratives on India’s Northeast, New Delhi: Sage, 2019
  3. Regional Development and Public Policy Challenges in India, New Delhi: Springer, 2015
  4. Northeastern India and its Neighbours: Negotiating Security and Development, New Delhi: Routledge, 2015
  5. Development Disparities in Northeast India, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. ‘Security and Development: Understanding the Relationship’, in Sumi Krishna (Ed) Northeastern India: Resource, Conflicts, Militarisation and Development Challenges, London: Routledge, 2023, ISBN 9781032270241
  2. ‘Developmentalism’, in Jelle J. P. Wouters and T. B. Subbha (Eds) The Routledge Companion to North East India, New York: Routledge, 2023, ISBN: 978036772566
  3. ‘The Fifteenth Finance Commission Recommendations: An Appraisal’ (with Govind Bhattacharjee), Economic and Political Weekly, October 2021, Vl. LVI, No. 41, pp13-17
  4. ‘Road Matters at the Periphery: India’s Post-liberalisation Road Projects in the Northeast’, (with Nijara Deka), Journal of Economic and Social Development, Volume 23, Issue 2, pp 321-337, December 2021, UGC CARE listed