UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA

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1 UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA FACULTY ACADEMIC PROFILE/ CV Full name of the faculty member: Bula Bhadra Designation: Professor, Dept. of Sociology Specialisation : Sociology of Gender, Childhood, Historical Sociology and Sociolinguistics Contact information : Abhyudoy, Flat B25/8, ECTP,Phase-IV, Kasba Gold park, PO EKT, Kolkata , bulabhadra@gmail.com, Academic qualifications: College/ university from which the degree was obtained Presidency College, Calcutta University Brock University, Ontario, Canada McMaster university, Ontario, Canada Abbreviation of the degree M.A. (Political Science) M.A. (Politics) M.A. & PhD (Sociology) Positions held/ holding: Head of the Dept. ( & ) Convenor, MPhil & PhD Committee

2 Research interests: Sociology of Gender and Childhood, Historical Sociology and Sociolinguistics Research guidance: Number of researchers awarded M.Phil/ Ph.D degrees: MPhil 12/PhD 9 Number of researchers pursuing M.Phil/ Ph.D: PhD 5 pursuing, 1 (JRF)waiting to be registered, 1 PhD submitted Projects: Completed projects: 1. Completed and Report submitted UGC Major Research project on The Impact of New technologies in Children s Everyday Lives : A Sociological Study of Kolkata s Children, July, 2012 (Duration 2 years, 9 lak 52 thousand 1hundred) 2. UGC Major Project under UPE Scheme: Language Use and Attitude: A Sociolinguistic Survey of Non-Bengalis in Kolkata. Jointly with Dept. of Linguistics, Calcutta University, , Rs. 12 lakh, Report submitted (2 publications). Current projects: Precarity and Surrogacy through Intersectional Lense Select list of publications: a) Journals: Sociological Association Bulldozing Indian Universities in the Name of Reform, In India on June 15, Multilingualism, modern metropolis and youth: a sociolinguistic profile of a section of students of Calcutta University, Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics, vol 2, No 3 (2009). Caste(s): The Archetypal Orientalist Predicament of Sociology on India, ISS E Journal (of the Indian Sociological Society), Vol. I, No.2, 2013/5

3 b) Books/ book chapters : Materialist Orientalism: Marx, Asiatic Mode of Production and India (Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1989), pp xvi. (ed.) Sociology of Childhood and Youth: Themes in Indian Sociology Series, Vol.3 New Delhi: Sage Publications Recent Rape Law Reforms in India: Catalyst to Gender Justice or Modernization in Legal reform? (ed.) S. Shahidullah, Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Evolving Science of Criminology in South Asia: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (London, UK: Palgrave and Macmillan, 2016,). Unequal Exchange: A Tale of Surrogacy and Indian Women s Health in Health System Strengthening: Country Experiences (eds.), R.K. Mishra, P. Geeta and P. Garimella (New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2016). Gendered New Technology: Neglected Terrain of Globalization in Essays in Honour of Professor Yogendra Singh Modernization,Globalization and Social Transformation, vol. 4 (ed.) I. P. Modi (Jaipur, India, Rawat, 2015) c) Conference/ seminar volumes: Globalisation and Information Technology: Partners in the Gendering of Cyberspace' in Development, Displacement and Marginalisation (Ed) Ranjana Ray 2011, Seminar and Public Lecture series, Asiatic Society, Kolkata d) Other publications : Gender Justice or Gendered Justice? A Sociological Exploration Or Revelation, in N.K.Chakrabarti and S.Chakraborty (eds.) GENDER JUSTICE, Calcutta University LL.B. Honours Curriculum Development Programme, Vol. II, Kolkata, R. Cambray & Co. Private Ltd., Women and Technology: Celebration and Struggle, in J. Basu and H. N. Gupta (eds.), GLIMPSES INTO BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE: METHODS AND THEMES IN PRACTICE, Kolkata: UGC Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta, Bachbar Dakhsta Shiksha, Na Jaunashiksha: Ekti Dristikon, (Life-Style Education or Sexeducation ), Maner Katha (Discourses on Mind, Published by Indian Psychological Society), vol. 2, July-September, 2004.

4 Janani O Prajukti: Lingakaran O Khamatayaner Sahabasthan (Motherhood and Technology: The Coexistence of Gendering and Empowerment), Dhanadhanye (Bengali version of Yojana), Special Issue on Independence, August Ashapurnar Tin Kanya Samajtattiker Sahitya Path, (Ashapurna s Three Daughters: A Sociologist s Reading of Literature Disha, (Direction) Puja Issue, Swadhinatar Prastuti O Sikahita Bengali Nari (Promise of Freedom and the Educated Bengali Women), Disha (Direction) 7 (August 1999) Membership of Learned Societies: Life Member, Indian Sociological Society & Indian Association for Women s Studies (IAWS) Member International Sociological Association (ISA), Elected Executive Board Member in two Research Committees (RC) Women in Society (RC 32) and Sociology of Childhood (RC 53) of International Sociological Association ; Convenor RC 24 (Sociology of Childhood and Youth) of Indian Sociological Society (ISS), New Delhi & Reelected as Convener ; Member, Managing Committee, Member, Managing Committee, Indian Sociological Society, Invited lectures delivered: (selected ones in last 5 years) Mixed Methods and Semiotics in ICSSR Sponsored Research Methodology Course at Ravenshaw University, June 30, "Interdisciplinarity and Methodologies: Perspectives from disciplines with special reference to Gender Studies" at International Conference on Social Science Research: Issues, Challenges and Strategies, organized by The Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), a Centre of Excellence recognized by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), and Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India Hyderabad, January 9-11, 2013.

5 Symposium lecture on Development, Disparity and Distributive Justice with special reference to Gender at 38 th All India Sociological Conference at Udaipur, December 27-29, Key note address entitled Indigenous Feminism of India: Women as Agency, in UGC sponsored seminar on Evolution of Women s Consciousness in Sanskritic and Bengali Literature: A Sociological Viewpoint at Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata, December 2, Plenary in Victimology Congress on Gendered Victimization: Revisiting The Latecomer at the at the 3 rd International and 7 th Biennial Conference of the Indian Society of Victimology on January 7, 2011, Kalinga Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. Gender and Society in Rabindranath Tagore s Selected Short Stories, National Seminar on 150 th Years of Tagore s Birth Anniversary, Dec 21-22, 2011, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata Other notable activities: 1. Lectured at National Consultation on Child Domestic Work and Trafficking to suggest policy changes in specific reference to the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 organized by Save the Children and sponsored by Central Government of India at New Delhi on Dec. 9, Delivered lecture in an Orientation Programme on Gender Sensitization & Investigation on Crime against Women jointly organized by Central Industrial Security Force(CISF) and Jayaprakash Institute of Social Change on May 6, Delivered lecture on Sociological context of Social Defense Issues jointly organized by The National Institute of Social Defense, New Delhi in collaboration with Directorate of Social Welfare, Govt. of West Bengal and Jayaprakash Institute of Social Change on February 19, Have been associated with Police training of Government of India, West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police; participated as Resource person in Human Rights and Gender Sensitization training; also associated with Family Counseling in Legal Aid Services West Bengal ( LASWEB), State Legal

6 Services Authority, Government of West Bengal, State Audit Advisory Board (SAAB), West Bengal as expert in advisory capacity and also Govt. of Assam for training of counselors in relation to Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, Associated with NGOs (e.g. CINI, Save the Children, Care India, Sanlap, Sanhita, Saroj Nalini, Country Women s Association of India, Women s Coordinating Council, Manas Bangla, Ganna Unnayan Parshad, Jai Prakash Institute of Social Change etc) who are engaged in uplift of women, children and marginalized/excluded sections of the people (like HIV/AIDS victims, vagrants, etc.). 6.Regularly participated in numerous talk shows in All India Radio, and in different TV channels and also contributed a large number of articles to All India English and Bengali dailies on current social issues and problems.