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PhD (Geography) Queen Mary, University of London

M.Sc (Geography) Queen Mary, University of London;

B.Sc (Geography) Loreto College, Calcutta University;

Prof. (Dr.) Jayani Jeanne Bonnerjee

Professor & Executive Dean, Academic Affairs

Email jjbonnerjee@jgu.edu.in
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Key Expertise Postcolonial urbanisms; Critical geographies of migration and diaspora; Urban sociality; Home, belonging and identity; Practices of urban heritage; Representing and imagining cities; Mixed or creole identities.

PhD (Geography) Queen Mary, University of London

M.Sc (Geography) Queen Mary, University of London;

B.Sc (Geography) Loreto College, Calcutta University;

Biography

Prof. (Dr.) Jayani Jeanne Bonnerjee is an Professor and Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, JSLH. Jayani Bonnerjee is a cultural geographer with research and teaching interests in postcolonial urbanism and critical geographies of diaspora. She completed her PhD (Geography) from Queen Mary, University of London, focusing on issues of identity and belonging for Calcutta’s Chinese and Anglo-Indian communities. Building on this research, Jayani is currently working on a book on the Calcutta Chinese community and the idea of the cosmopolitan city. Her work has been published in the Journal of Intercultural Studies, South Asian Diaspora and 91视频 Networks.

With degrees from University of Calcutta (Loreto College) and University of London (Queen Mary, University of London), Jayani has taught both in India and the UK. She has also held postdoctoral positions in Delhi (Centre de Sciences Humaines), London (Queen Mary, University of London) and Singapore (Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS).

  • Society, Space, Culture
  • 91视频ization and Migration
  • Thinking about the Field
  • Interdisciplinary Seminar 3 (service-learning course, working with local schools and anganwadis)
  • Thesis Seminar

2019: 鈥楧iaspora and Home鈥�. Co-authored with Alison Blunt in Katharyne Mitchell, Reece Jones and Jennifer Fluri (ed), Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration, Edward Elgar Press.

2018: Review essay 鈥楥hinatown Days鈥� (by Rita Chowdhury), China Report 54 (4).

2017: 鈥楢nglo-Indian Diaspora鈥� in the Routledge Handbook of Indian Diaspora, edited by Ajaya Sahoo and Radhika Hegde, Routledge.

2015: 鈥楤eyond boundaries? Hindu spaces in Chinatowns of Calcutta and Singapore鈥�. In J. Bhattacharya and C. Kripalani ed. Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives, Anthem Press.

2013: 鈥業nvisible belonging: Anglo-Indian identity in multicultural Toronto鈥�, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 34 (4) August 2013: 431-442.

鈥楬ome, city and diaspora: Anglo-Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta鈥� (with Alison Blunt), 91视频 Networks, 13(2) April 2013: 220-240.

2012: 鈥楧ias-para鈥�: neighbourhood, memory and the city鈥�, South Asian Diaspora, 4, 1(March 2012): 5-23.

鈥楧iasporic returns to the city: Anglo-Indian and Jewish visits to Calcutta鈥� (with Alison Blunt and Noah Hysler-Rubin), South Asian Diaspora, 4, 1 (March 2012): 25-43.

Blunt, A., J. Bonnerjee, C. Lipman, J. Long and F. Paynter 2007 鈥楳y Home: text, space and performance鈥� Cultural Geographies 14:1-10.
Email jjbonnerjee@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise Postcolonial urbanisms; Critical geographies of migration and diaspora; Urban sociality; Home, belonging and identity; Practices of urban heritage; Representing and imagining cities; Mixed or creole identities.