Gargi Bhattacharyya Explained

Gargi Bhattacharyya (born 1968) is a British sociologist. They are professor of sociology at the University of East London (UEL).

Life

Bhattacharyya's parents are from Bengal. Their younger sister is the playwright Sonali Bhattacharyya.^[1] They were a lecturer at Aston University and the University of Birmingham before coming to UEL in 2013.

Bhattacharyya is the Chair of the University and College Union (UCU) at UEL, and on UCU's black members standing committee. In November 2020 they found themself amongst several UEL academics threatened with redundancy. The MP Zarah Sultana expressed concern, particularly at the possibility that Bhattacharyya might have been targeted as a trade union organizer at UEL.^[2]

Mike Savage has called them "one of the leading academics on race", responsible for writing "what is probably the most important book on racial capitalism".^[3]

Works

• Tales of dark-skinned women: race, gender and global culture. London: UCL Press, 1998.
• Race and Power. London: Routledge, 2001
• Sexuality and Society; an introduction. London: Routledge, 2002.
• Traffick; the illicit movement of people and things. London: Pluto, 2005.
• Dangerous brown men : exploiting sex, violence and feminism in the war on terror. London: Zed Books, 2008.
• (ed.) Ethnicities and values in a changing world. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
• Crisis, austerity and everyday life: Living in a time of diminishing expectations. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• Go Home? The politics of immigration controversies. Jones, H, Gunaratnam, Y, Bhattacharyya, G, Davies, W, Dhaliwal, S, Forkert, F, Jackson, E and Saltus, R. Manchester: MUP, 2017.

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• Rethinking racial capitalism: questions of reproduction and survival. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.
• How media and conflicts make migrants. Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya and Janna Graham. Manchester: MUP, 2020.
• Empire's endgame: Racism and the British State, with Adam Elliott-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nisancioglu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany, Luke De Noronha. London: Pluto, 2021.
• The Futures of Racial Capitalism. Newark: Polity Press, 2023

External links

• Gargi Bhattacharyya: Publications at the University of Birmingham
• Who's afraid of anticapitalism?, Left Book Club, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLFLpXdIU3I&t=3382s
• Anticapitalism and love, Left Book Club, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVg4fid5JPQ
• Social Reproduction and Racial Capitalism, talk at Queen Mary, University of London, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3GTYHtXm_c&t=630s
• We, the heartbroken, https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/we-the-heartbroken/

Notes and References

1. News: Chris Arnot . The play's the thing to heal community . The Guardian . 11 February 2009 . 2 April 2021 .
2. News: Malia Bouattia . Pandemic redundancies speak volumes about the real state of progress for women of colour . The New Arab . 13 November 2020 . 2 April 2021 .
3. News: Anna Fazackerley . 'Despicable in a pandemic': fury as UK universities plan job cuts' . 22 January 2021 . 2 April 2021 .