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EDUCATION
| 2003 |
Ph.D. |
Geography
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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| 1995 |
M.Phil. |
Planning
and Development
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India |
| 1993 |
M.A. |
Geography
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India |
| 1991 |
B.Sc. |
Geography
University of Pune, Pune, India |
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate:
| GEA 3703 |
Regional
Geography of Asia
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| GEO
4372 |
Global
Conservation |
| GEO
4471 |
Political
Geography |
| Study Abroad: Urban-Rural Contrasts in India: Culture, Economy, Globalization |
Graduate:
| GEO 6058 |
Geographic Literature and History |
| GEA 6745 |
Seminar
in Regional Geography of Asia
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| GEO 6116 |
Perspectives in Environmental Thought |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Rural Geographies, Development, Gender, Agricultural Livelihoods, Environmental Social Movements, Migration, Regional Geography of India, Qualitative / Ethnographic Methods
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Basu, Pratyusha. 2009. Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India: Making Place for Rural Development. Amherst, NY: Cambria |
Press.
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| Basu, Pratyusha. 2009. Success and Failure of Crossbred Cows in India: A Place-Based Approach to Rural Development. Annals of the Association of |
American Geographers, Vol. 99, No. 4, Oct, pp.746-766.
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Scholten, Bruce and Basu, Pratyusha. 2009. White Counter-Revolution? India’s Dairy Cooperatives in a Neoliberal Era. Human Geography, Vol. 2, No. 1, |
pp.17-28.
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| Basu, Pratyusha and Chakraborty, Jayajit. 2008. The Other Side of Sprawl: A County-Level Analysis of Farm Loss in Florida. Southeastern Geographer, |
Vol. 48, No. 2, Nov, pp.219-235.
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| Basu, Pratyusha and Chakraborty, Jayajit. 2008. Land, Labor, and Rural Development: Analyzing Participation in India’s Village Dairy Cooperatives. |
Professional Geographer, Vol. 60, No. 3, Aug, pp.299-313.
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| Basu, Pratyusha. 2006. The Gender of Successful Development: Women’s Words and Dairying Work in Gujarat, India. International Journal of |
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.61-68.
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| Basu, Pratyusha. 2005. Separating Women’s Empowerment from Dairy Development in Madhya Pradesh, India. In Graham Tobin and Burrell Montz (eds.) |
Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 28, pp.1-10.
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| Basu, Pratyusha. 2001. Producing (Un)homely Spaces: Gender Differences, Gujarati Culture, and the South Asian Diaspora. In Makarand Paranjape (ed.) |
In Diaspora: Theories, Histories, Texts, pp.117-129, Indialog Publications, New Delhi.
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Basu, Pratyusha and Silliman, Jael. 2000. Green and Red, Not Saffron: Gender and the Politics of Resistance in the Narmada Valley. In Christopher Key |
Chapple and Mary Evelyn Tucker (eds.) Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water, pp.423-450, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
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GRADUATE ADVISEES
Current students (thesis/dissertation keywords):
Ph.D. Geography and Environmental Science and Policy: |
•Ravic Nijbroek, “Community-Level Adaptations to Sea Level Rise: Hybrid Knowledges of Coastal Management in Suriname.”
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M.A. Geography: |
•Milena Janiec Grygo, “Gender, Internal Migration, and Factory Recruitment Practices in Hubei Province, China.”
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M.S. Environmental Science and Policy: |
•Joshua Berger, “Economic and Environmental Viability of Sugar Ethanol in Florida.
•Jonathan Bloch, “Perspectives on Reclaimed Water among Urban Residents in Tampa, Florida.” Graduated Spring 2009.
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