Dhiraj Barman

Assistant Professor

• B.A.  Geography, North Bengal University (2007)
• M.A.  Geography, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2009)
• M.Phil  Geography, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2012)

I am a graduate in Geography from Siliguri College, North Bengal University (2007). I joined Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University for pursuing masters in Geography and did my specialization in Social Geography. I have cleared NET-JRF in Geography (UGC) and Earth Sciences (CSIR) in 2009 and joined M.Phil at the same institute. Before joining Presidency University I was selected for the post of Assistant Professor at Department of Geography, Mizoram Central University and University of Gour Banga. Currently I am an Assistant Professor in Presidency University since January, 2014.

My M.Phil research work was on “Interstate and Social Inequalities of Child Undernutrition in India”. The study was based on the analysis of NFHS-1,2 & 3 dataset.

My ongoing doctoral research work is on Gentrification of Urban Space.

Besides my current research also focuses on neoliberal urbanism, spaces of exclusion in Indian cities.

I am in teaching since 2012 (Previously in University of Gour Banga). The courses which I tought at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels are Philosophy of Geography, Settlement Geography, Social Geography, Political Geography, Urban Geography, Contemporary Social Issues and Gegraphy of Social Well-Being (PG special paper).

Other Academic Experience:

1. Convener for the Academic talk at the Department of Geography, UGB.

2. Jt. Convener for the National Seminar at the Department of Geography, UGB on ‘River, Flood and Natural Resource Management”

3. Member of the PG core committee, UGB.

1. Dhiraj Barman, Subhanil Chowdhury (2024) Land for urbanization: Shifting policies and variegated accumulation strategies in a fast-growing city in eastern India, Land Use Policy 140, 107111, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107111,  (IF 7.1)

2. Dhiraj Barman (2023) Land Redevelopment, Real Estate and Capital in Urban Place-making: A Case Study of Siliguri, India, Environment and Urbanization ASIA 14 (2), 318-331, https://doi.org/10.1177/09754253231193109.,  (IF 1.3)

3. Dhiraj Barman (2020) ‘Global’-izing Indian Cities: A Spatial Epistemological Critique, In B. K. Choudhary, A. K. Singh, & D. Das Edited, City, Space and Politics in the Global South, Routledge