CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Dr Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
Senior Lecturer, School
of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, University
of Wollongong
Qualifications
BA (VU)
DipEd (Deakin)
PhD (Melb)
Research Programs
Mobility and Exclusion
Globalisation and International Development
Research Specialisation
My research focuses broadly on the ethnographic approaches to the study of globalisation,
neo-liberal development and gender relations.
Languages
Bengali, Tamil.
Current Research Projects
Recent Publications
Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date
- Forthcoming 2007: (Co-authored with T. Scrase) Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India, Routledge, London.
- (in press): “Development, Displacement and Minority Women’s Rights” In Anjan Ghosh and Eva-Maria Nag (eds) Rethinking Discrimination : Minorities, Nationalism and Human Rights Violation in South Asia. Oxford University Press.
- 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.
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