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Ph.D. (IISER Mohali)

M.A. (IIT Guwahati)

B.A. (Cotton College, Guwahati)

Prof. (Dr.) Dalia Bhattacharjee

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Email dalia.bhattacharjee@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0000-0001-6837-789X
Key Expertise Feminist and reproductive geographies; reproductive justice; emotions; qualitative research methods.

Ph.D. (IISER Mohali)

M.A. (IIT Guwahati)

B.A. (Cotton College, Guwahati)

Biography

Dalia Bhattacharjee received her BA in Political Science from Cotton College and an MA in Development Studies from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. She earned her PhD from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, where her doctoral research examined the lived experiences of women working as surrogate mothers in India’s commercial surrogacy industry through ethnographic inquiry. Grounded in feminist scholarship, her work explores reproductive labor, embodiment, and the everyday realities of women whose bodies are situated within reproductive economies.

A recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dalia Bhattacharjee conducted postdoctoral research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between 2021 and 2023. Her current research engages with feminist and reproductive geographies, focusing on questions of embodiment, emotion, affect, and the spatial politics of reproduction.
 

Gender and Society

Foundations of Social Sciences 1

Reproductive Rights and Justice

History 1

Sociology 1

Sociology of Law

Reproductive Justice

Annual Award for New and Emerging Scholars, sponsored by Gender, Place and Culture (2019)
 

Fulbright-Nehru Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2021-2022)

Bhattacharjee, D (2023). “This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, p. 978-994, Vol. 41(6).

Bhattacharjee, D. (2022). A shift from home to the market: The Marketization of Reproductive Labor in India. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X211071104

Bhattacharjee, D. (2021). ‘Wombs for rent’: the geographies of surrogate motherhood in India. Gender, Place and Culture, 28(9), 1351-1355. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2020.1858033

Bhattacharjee, D. (2019). “It is a jail which does not let us be…”: Negotiating spaces of commercial surrogacy by reproductive laborers in India. In England, M, Fannin, M and Halen, H (Eds.) Geographies of Reproduction. Routledge, 106-121.

Bhattacharjee, D. (2018). Unmaking the global sweatshop: health and safety of the world’s garment workers. Contemporary South Asia, 26(4), 500–501

Bhattacharjee, D. (2016). Commercial Surrogacy in India. Economic & Political Weekly, 51(14), 27-29.
Email dalia.bhattacharjee@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0001-6837-789X
Key Expertise Feminist and reproductive geographies; reproductive justice; emotions; qualitative research methods.
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