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2011 CHASS INT NORTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Chatterjee, Piya

Associate Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Women's Studies


Biography

 

Degrees

PhD Anthropology 1995

University of Chicago

Research Area

International women's movements particularly in the global south; labor politics; will be working on AIDS and women's organizing in Central Africa and India; colonialism; history and feminist ethnographic writing.

Publications

"Encountering 'Third World Women:' Rac(e)ing the Global in a U.S. Classroom." In Pedogogy, Winter 2002;

"Ethnographic Acts: Writing Women and Other Political Fields." In Feminist Post-Development Thought: Rethinking Post-Colonialism and Representation. Edited by Kriemild Saunders. London: Zed Press, 2002;

"Myth, Memory, and Other Himalayan Labours." In Into the High Ranges. Ed. R. Aggarwall. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2002;

"A Time for Tea: Women, Labor and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation" Duke University Press, 2001.

"'Secure this Excellent Class of Labor' Gender and Race in Labor Recruitment for British Indian Tea Plantations" in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 27:3:43-56.

"De/Colonizing the Exotic: Teaching 'Asian Women' in a U.S. Classroom" Special Issue on Asian American Women. Eds. M. Sciachitano and L.T. Vo. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (Volume XXI, No. 1-2, 2000).

"A State of Work: Women and Politics on Plantations Frontlines" in Frontline Feminisms: Women, War and Resistance. Eds. M. Waller and J. Rycenga. (New York: Garland Press, 2000).