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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

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’ - 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:

Monsoon Semester

Ph.D. (International Organization) Theoretical Issues in International Organization

Winter Semester

Ph.D. ( International Organization) International Economic and Financial Organizations

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

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.