CAPSTRANS COORDINATOR

Associate Professor Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase

Room: 19.2015
Phone: 4221 3661
Email: rgscrase@uow.edu.au

Qualifications

BA (VU)
DipEd (Deakin)
PhD (Melb)

Languages

Bengali, Tamil.

Research Programs

Globalisation, Mobility and Development

Research Specialisation

My research focuses broadly on the ethnographic approaches to the study of globalisation, neo-liberal development and gender relations.

Current Research Projects

• Social Impact of Globalisation in India
• Precarious Production: Indian Artisans in the Global Economy (with Tim Scrase)
• ARC Discovery Project: The Clothing Industry in the Asia Pacific: Managing Constant Change (with Prof. Adrian Vickers, University of Sydney, Dr. Melanie Beresford, Macquarie University and Dr Vicki Crinis and Associate Prof. Kathryn Hannan, UOW)
• ARC Linkage with PALMS Australia (with Dr Tim Scrase, Associate Prof Peter Kell, UOW and Mr Roger O'Halloran, PALMS)
  Recent Publications
• Home is a Distant Land: is a digital documentary project on the Partition of India. It explores individual and collective memories of the Bengal partition.
• Fairer Markets and Ethical Consumers? A Sociological Inquiry into the Complexities of Asia Pacific Fair Trade (with Tim Scrase)
• Palms Australia (Palms) and the Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education (ERC), in partnership with the University of Wollongong, have developed this research proposal to analyse the nature and character of Australia’s aid and development policies by critically examining Fair Trade as a key development goal in the Asia/Pacific Region.

Postgraduate Supervision

• Bokhtiar Ahmed
• Seori Choi
• Nichole Georgeou
• Belinda Green
• Susheela Pandian
• John Robinson
• Patrick Brownlee

Recent Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

• 2008: (Co-authored with T. Scrase) Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India, Routledge, London.
• 2008: Ganguly-Scrase, R. & 'Ethnographies of gendered displacement: women's experiences in South Asia under neo-liberal globalisation', (Co-authored with G. Vogl) Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 1-15.
• 2008: Ganguly-Scrase, R. 'Survival in the Era of the Post-Multifiber Arrangement: Experiences of Garment Workers in India', Journal of Third World Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 39-57. 
• Ganguly-Scrase, R. 2007, 'Victims and agents: Young people's understanding of their social world in an urban neighbourhood in India', Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 321-341.
• 2006: 'Constructing Middle Class Culture: Globalization, Modernity and Indian Media"  (co-authored with T. Scrase - 50% contribution) in Holden, T.J.M and Timothy J. Scrase (eds) medi@sia: Communication and Society in Cultural Context, Routledge.
• (2006) "Neoliberal Development and its Implications for the Garment Industry and its Workers in India: A case study of West Bengal’, Refereed conference paper for 16th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia.
• (2005) "Neoliberal Globalisation and Women’s Experiences of Forced migrations in Asia" (co-authored with R. Julian and G. Vogl 33% contribution), Refereed conference paper for Social Change Research in the 21st Century, Queensland University of Technology - 28 October 2005.
• (2005) "Gender and forced migration in South Asia’ Refereed conference paper for The Australian Sociological Association conference, University of Tasmania, Dec 5-8.
• (2005) Women's work in call centres in India: Contradictions and Constraints" (co-authored with Van den Broek 50% contribution), refereed conference paper for The Australian Sociological Association, University of Tasmania, Dec 5-8.
• (2004) "Exploitation Narratives and Gendered Social Transformation: Young People's accounts of Social Life in an Urban Artisan community in India” Vol. 14. No. 2. in Children, Youth and Environments., pp. 45-66.
• (2003) “Paradoxes of Globalization, Liberalization and Gender Equality: The Worldviews of the Lower Middle Classes in West Bengal”, in Gender and Society, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 544-566.
• (2003) “Search for Change: Karl Marx”, in Ray Jureidini, Sue Kenny and Marilyn Poole (eds.), Sociology: Australian Connections, 3rd edition, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 44-62.
• (2003) “Globalization, Modernity and Gender Equality”, in Tim Scrase, Todd Holden and Scott Baum (eds.), Globalization, Culture and Inequality in Asia, Trans Pacific Press, pp. 68-94.
  (2002) “Renegotiating Boundaries: Self-perception and Public Debate on Globalization and Gender Equality in India”, in Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 58-100.
• (2001) Global Issues/Local Contexts: The Rabi Das of West Bengal, Orient Longman, New Delhi/Sangam Books, London (refereed manuscript).
• (2001) “Women and Economic Development in India: The Bengali Lower Middle Class”, in International Scope Review, Vol. 3, Issue 5, pp. 1-21.
• (2001) with Tim Scrase, “Who Wins? Who Loses? And Who Even Knows?—Responses to Economic Liberalisation and Cultura Globalisation”, in J. McGuire (ed.), South Asia Special Issue: Globalisation and Economic Liberalisation in South Asia, Vol 24, No. 1, pp. 141-158.
• (2000) “Globalisation and Its Discontents: An Indian Response” in Journal of Occupational Science, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 138-147.
• (2000) “Diversity and the Status of Women: The Indian Experience”, in M. Roces and L. Edwards (eds.), Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 85-111.