Current Visiting Scientists

QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD. Development Studies (2016) Passed with distinction (cum laude). International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Den Haag, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.  Thesis entitled, Nutrition -Contested meanings: A theoretical and empirical enquiry.
• MSc. Epidemiology (1993) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) (1976) Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
   

PUBLICATIONS

Selected journal articles, working papers, policy reports

(2022) ‘Covid-19: The Political Economy of a Global Pandemic’. Introductory essay to the 7^thDevelopment and Change virtual issue curated by C. Sathyamala  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-7660.political-economy-of-a-global-pandemic

(2021) with Julien-François G., and T. Moreda. ‘The awkward struggle: A global overview of social conflicts against private debts’, Journal of Rural Studies, 86:651-662.

(2021) with Jaspars, S.  ‘Digital bodies and digitalised welfare. North-South linkages in the politics of food assistance and social welfare’. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series, No. 687. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies.   https://repub.eur.nl/pub/135643

(2020) ‘Covid-19: A biopolitical Odyssey’. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series, No. 667. The Hague: ISS https://repub.eur.nl/pub/132250

(2019) Editorial (commissioned). ‘Depot contraception and HIV: an exercise in obfuscation’ BMJ 367: l5768.

(2019) ‘In the name of science: ethical violations in the ECHO randomised trial’, Global Public Health. ePub 24 June. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2019.1634118

(2019) ‘Meat eating in India: whose food, whose politics and whose rights’ Policy Futures in Education. 17(7):878-891.

(2018) with J Puliylel ‘Infanrix hexa and sudden death: a review of the periodic safety update reports submitted to the European Medicines Agency’, Indian J. Med. Ethics 3(1):43-47.

(2017) ‘Global Nutrition Report: Towards a global governance in nutrition’, Development and Change. 48(5) Forum 2017:1227-1242.

(2016) ‘Nutritionalizing food: A framework for capital accumulation’ Development and Change 47: 818-839. doi:10.1111/dech.12250.

(2014) ‘ICN2: Perpetuating a Troubled Legacy’, Development 57:171-178. doi:10.1057/dev.2014.67

(2014) (First author) ‘Public report on health: Development of a nutritive value calculator for Indian foods and analysis of food logs and nutrient intake in 6 States’, Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research 8(5):PC06-12.   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24995224

(2013) with Lodha, R and Y. Jain. ‘Reality of Higher Malnutrition among Indian Children’, Economic and Political Weekly XLVIII (34):70-73.

(2010) ‘Nutrition as a Public Health Problem (1900-1947), ISS Working Paper Series / General Series, No. 510. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies.

Qualification

• MA. English Literature (with Post Colonial theory, and Gender theory as special papers). University of Kalyani, India. 2011.
• BA. English Literature (with Political Science, and History as minor papers) University of Kalyani, India. 2009.

Academic scholarships

• Guest Researcher (as part of the South Asia Work in Progress workshop) at the Political Assembly working group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle/Saale, Germany. June 2022.
• Received the Visiting Academic’s Grant to work as a Guest Research Fellow at the Chair of Critical Development Studies at the University of Passau, Germany. Duration: January 2022.
• Received the AUFF Grant to work as a Predoctoral research fellow at the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark. Duration: September-November 2018

Selected Publications

• Essay titled, “Women and Wartime Sexual Violence: The ‘Comfort Women’ and the ‘Virangana’” accepted for the anthology on Human Rights to be published by Springer in 2023.
• Sarkar, Sanchali. 2019. Violence in Public Spaces: Security and Agency of Women in West Bengal. Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Anindya Sekhar Purkaystha (Ed) Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge India [ISBN-10: 0367135116, ISBN-13: 978-o367135119]
• Sarkar, Sanchali. 2018. Security and Agency of Women in the Hyper-Masculine Space of Local Trains in West Bengal. Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium [Online], ISSN 2581-7361, Vo-2 (1) Peer reviewed

Conferences and Seminars

• Presented at the 20^th T2M Conference on Gender and Mobility at the University of Padova, Italy. 21-24 September 2022.
• Presented at the South Asia Work in Progress retreat to be held at the Max Planck Institute (Halle/Saale), Germany. 2-4 June, 2022.
• Presented at the National Conference on Women’s Issues and Everyday Life: Power, Resistance and Representation at St Xavier’s College, Kolkata. 10-11 January, 2020.
• Participated and presented at the Winter School on A Room of One’s Own: Challenging Poor Women’s Marginalization in Urban Housing Regimes in India at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. 2 to 4 January, 2020.

Upcoming academic activities:

• Shall deliver a lecture on Gender and Public Transport in Bengal, and conduct a seminar session on Feminist research in India at the Institute for Social Research, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany on the 14^th of April, 2023.
• Shall present at the Belonging and Mobility conference organized by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 19-21 April 2023.

Interviews

• Participated in the discussion on Women’s access to property and housing in Kolkata, West Bengal for a research podcast series titled ‘Reflections on Crises’, arranged by the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. The episode ‘Gender, Community and Experiencing the Pandemic in Urban India’ was released on the 23^rd of October, 2020 as part of the podcast series.