- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- Telephone
- 7774273861
- chowdhury@euc.eur.nl
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Romit Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Erasmus University College. He primarily teaches courses in Urban Sociology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Academic Writing. These teaching areas relate directly to his research interests in Urban Studies, Masculinity Studies, Ethnographic Methods, and Literary Theory.
He is currently working on a monograph which is set out as an ethnography of the relationship between masculinities, spatial politics of co-presence, and everyday urban mobilities. The project draws on the laboring lives of male public transport workers in Kolkata, and their interactions with commuters and traffic police, to offer a feminist reading of the city.
Between 2018-20, as a postdoctoral researcher in the Geography department at Durham University in the UK, Romit worked on a comparative project on densities in Asian cities. The emphasis of his work was on the social life of crowds in busy transport hubs in Tokyo, Mumbai, and Manila. His earlier research has explored masculinities in the contexts of men's rights movements, feminist methodology, sexual violence, care-giving, and men doing feminist research and activism in India.
Romit has an interdisciplinary training in literature, cultural studies, and the social sciences. He received his PhD in Sociology from the National University of Singapore, where he also facilitated undergraduate courses in Sociological Theory, Urban Sociology, Media and Culture, and Gender Studies.
He has been a visiting researcher in the departments of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and in the Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University in Tokyo. He currently serves as an international advisory editor to the journal Men and Masculinities (Sage).
- R. Chowdhury (2020). Homosocial trust in urban policing: Masculinities and traffic law enforcement in the gendered city. City : analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 24 (3-4), 493-511. doi: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1781410 [go to publisher's site]
- R. Chowdhury (2020). Density as Urban Affect: The Enchantment of Tokyo’s Crowds. Urban Geography. doi: 10.1080/02723638.2020.1850988
- R. Chowdhury (2019). The social life of transport infrastructures: Masculinities and everyday mobilities in Kolkata. Urban Studies (print). doi: 10.1177/0042098019875420
- R. Chowdhury & Z. Al Baset (2015). Men Doing Feminism in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 50 (9).
- R. Chowdhury (2014). Conditions of emergence: The formation of men’s rights groups in contemporary India. Indian Journal of Gender Studies. doi: 10.1177/0971521513511199
- R. Chowdhury (2013). Male Sexual Violence: Thoughts on Engagement. Economic and Political Weekly, 48 (49).
- R. Chowdhury & Z. Al Baset (2018). Men in women’s studies: A case study. In R Chowdhury and Z Al Baset (Ed.), Men and Feminism in India. London: Routledge
- R. Chowdhury (2017). Masculinities in fieldwork: Notes on Feminist Methodology. In K Kannabiran and P Swaminathan (Ed.), Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies: Interdisciplinary Explorations. London: Routledge
- R. Chowdhury (2014). Family, Femininity, Feminism: 'Structures of Feeling' in the Articulation of Men's Rights. In Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India. London: Anthem Press
- R. Chowdhury & Z. Al Baset (Ed.). (2018). Men and Feminism in India. London: Routledge
- R. Chowdhury (2016). Book review: Walking in Cities - Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice. [Bespreking van het boek Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice]. Urban Studies (print). doi: 10.1177/0042098016680341
- R. Chowdhury (2012). Review: A Search for Feminist Roots. [Bespreking van het boek Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency]. Economic and Political Weekly, 47(41).
- R. ChowdhuryWhy the harassed don't complain. . Retrieved Oct 03, 2020, from https://discoversociety.org/2019/07/03/why-the-harassed-dont-complain/
- R. ChowdhuryA One-Dimensional View of Masculinity in 'Lipstick Under My Burkha'. . Retrieved Oct 03, 2020, from https://thewire.in/film/male-feminists-lipstick-under-my-burkha
- R. Chowdhury (2018). Communities and Urban Life: In Conversation with Talja Blokland.
A Global View on Migration
- Title
- A Global View on Migration
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- Level 300
Gender Studies
- Title
- Gender Studies
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- Level 200
Urban Sociology
- Title
- Urban Sociology
- Year
- 2020
- Year level
- Level 200
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Department
- Erasmus University College (EUC)
- Country
- The Netherlands
- Telephone
- 7774273861