Manisha Desai

Department Head, Sociology

Professor, Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies

Primary Research Theme

People and the City

Recent Cities-related Projects

  • Right to Pee Campaign in Mumbai: How subaltern women in the slums of Mumbai organized to make the city accountable to their basic needs.
  • Human rights cities: It’s a national network working to make cities work with international human rights treaties.(2016) Subaltern Movements in India: Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development. Routledge.

Selected Urban-Related Publications

    2017. “Moments of Movements Intersection in India: Informing and Transforming Bodies in Movements.” 79-93. In Wendy Harcourt, editor, Bodies in Resistance: Gender Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism. Palgrave McMillan.

    2017. “Exploring the Persistence of Gendered Geographies of Global Justice Movements.” Pp: 121-131 In Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning, and John Markoff, editors, Social Movements and World System Transformation. Paradigm Publishers.

    2016. “The Gendered Geographies of Struggle: The WSF and its sometimes overlapping other worlds.” SWS 2015 Feminist Lecture. Gender & Society 30(6):869-889.

    (2016) Subaltern Movements in India: Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development. Routledge.

    (2016) Gender and Globalization, Qualitative Sociology, Manisha Desai and Rachel Rinaldo, editors.

    (2016) Reorienting Gender and Globalization: Introduction to the Special Issue Qualitative Sociology 39(3):1-15 with Rachel Rinaldo.

    2016. “Gendering Democracy: Insights from Four Decades of Feminist Activism in India.” Pp: 93-114 In Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Alf Gunvald Nilsen, editors, Democratizing Indian Democracy? Social Movements and the State in Contemporary India. Palgrave McMillan.

    2015. “Critical Cartographies, Theories and Praxis of Transnational Feminisms.” Pp: 116-130 in Rawwida Baksh and Wendy Harcourt, editors, Handbook on Transnational Feminist Movements: Knowledge, Power, and Social Change. Oxford University Press.