FACULTY PROFILE
I am a human geographer who is keenly interested in the political dimension of human life. In that context, I bring a political lens to bear on our relationship to land from a political economy and political ecology perspective. I exercise reflexivity on the pedagogic practices I adopt.
More specifically, I am interested in three areas, the first two of which are intricately related through the prism of land. First, I am interested in Urban Geography, particularly the political economy of urban spaces and gentrification. Second, and relatedly, I am interested in the politics of land acquisition for development in India. This falls under the broader rubric of critical development politics. My current research focuses on land politics. Through this research, I also draw parallels between land acquisition in India and the land conversion or zoning politics that play out here in the US. Third, I am interested in critical reflection on how students learn, particularly students who are part of the "emerging majority". I am also currently doing research on pedagogy and trying to understand how to create an engaged classroom.
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PUBLICATIONS
Bose S., 2015. Universities and the Redevelopment Politics of the Neoliberal City. Urban Studies, 52:14, 2616-2632. Doi: 10.1177/0042098014550950.
Bose S., 2020. Attachment to Place and Territoriality in Nandigram Land Struggle, India. Human Geography, 13:2, 139-153. Doi: 10.1177/1942778620944383.
Bose S., Goode J., and Radovic-Fanta J. 2020. The Ambient Power of the College Campus: Spatiality and the Emerging Majority Experience. In S. Lee Ed. Exploring Opportunities and Challenges of College Students, Chapter 3, 37-55. Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Goode J, Radovic-Fanta J. and Bose S. 2022. Intersectionality and the Emerging Majority Student: Negotiating Identity in the Liminalities of the University Environment, Communication Education, 71:1, 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2021.2003413
SUBMITTED ARTICLES
Bose S., and Sengupta A. Submitted in March 2026 to Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Negotiating Patriarchies: Cultural Realities of Doing Fieldwork in West Bengal, India.
ARTICLES IN PROGRESS
Bose S. and Conrad D., In Progress. Engaged Pedagogy as a Place Produced: Teaching Non-Western Geography to Freshmen in a General Education Course. Journal: Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
Bose S., In Progress. Dispossession by Acquiescence: Squeezed Out by State and Capital in Salboni, West Bengal. Journal: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
Bose S., In Progress. Placemaking through Memory: Expressing Rightful Belonging in Nandigram. Journal: Geoforum.