Madhurilata Basu, PhD
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Madhurilata Basu is a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship holder and has joined the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lucerne as a post-doctoral researcher. After graduating from Presidency College, Kolkata and University of Calcutta, she completed her doctoral degree at Presidency University.
In her doctoral work she tried focussing on the delivery of healthcare in the Indian state of West Bengal analysing policies across regimes at the same time probing how healthcare is delivered at the grassroot level. While care is provided by a diverse group of careworkers, she chose nurses and ayahs (attendants) in both formal and informal spaces, who often get overlooked by the society as well as the state. Her post-doctoral research would look at Indian nurses in Switzerland in both public and private spaces.
Apart from doing research, she teaches Political Science at Sarojini Naidu College for Women, Kolkata.
Publikationen
Publications
‘Living with the River: Glimpses from Murshidabad’, in RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA, Vol. 2014/2, issue 2, 2014. Pp 105-124. ISSN 2239-1959. Available at www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx
‘Exception as the ‘new’ normal: Experiences during pandemic in India’, in Asian Studies, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, 2020. ISSN no- 0970-7301
‘Healthcare Policies and Electoral Politics in West Bengal: 2011-2021’, in Vidyasagar University Journal of Economics, Vol 23, 2022-23 (UGC care listed)
Book Chapters
‘Of Spaces, Places and Identities: Gorkhas and Tibetan Refugees in Darjeeling’, in S.P. Basu edited, Forced Migration and the Media Mirrors. Frontpage: New Delhi, London. 2014. ISBN-10: 9381043132; ISBN-13 : 978-9381043134
‘Introduction’, Co-authoured with Rajat Roy and Ranabir Samaddar, in Madhurilata Basu, Rajat Roy and Ranabir Samaddar edited, Political Ecology of Survival: Life and Labour in the River Lands of East and North-East India. OrientBlackswan: Hyderabad. 2018.
‘Death of a River and other Accounts from Nadia’, Co-authored with Milan Datta, in Madhurilata Basu, Rajat Roy and Ranabir Samaddar edited, Political Ecology of Survival: Life and Labour in the River Lands of East and North-East India. OrientBlackswan: Hyderabad. 2018.
‘Rivers, riverbank Erosion and Survival in Murshidabad’, in Madhurilata Basu, Rajat Roy and Ranabir Samaddar edited, Political Ecology of Survival: Life and Labour in the River Lands of East and North-East India. OrientBlackswan: Hyderabad. 2018.
‘Migration and Care-giving in Kolkata in the Age of Globalization’, in Ranabir Samaddar edited , Migrants and the Neoliberal City. OrientBlackswan: Hyderabad. 2018. ISBN-10 : 9789352872909; ISBN-13 : 978-9352872909
(Co-authored) ‘Glimpses of Life in the Time of Corona’, in Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Paula Banerjee and Ranabir Samaddar (eds), India’s Migrant Workers and the Pandemic . 2022. London, New York: Routledge; ISBN-9781032158921
(Co-authored) ‘Corona kaler sonkot o Bangla’ [in Bengali] (‘Crisis in COVID times and Bengal’), in Ranabir Samaddar ed, Mahamarir Nana Simanay: Covid-19 ebong Parijee Sramik. 2022. Kolkata: Progressive; ISBN- 9788180643972.
(Co-authored) ‘Long 2020 and the Informal Care Economy: Case Studies of Select Care Workers’, in Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty et al eds, The Long 2020: Reflections of Epidemiological Times. Springer Nature, Singapore, 2024. ISBN 9819948142
Book
(Co-edited) Political Ecology of Survival: Life and Labour in the River Lands of East and North-East India. OrientBlackswan: Hyderabad. 2018.
