Associate Professor Devleena Ghosh

Gillen, P.A. & Ghosh, D. 2007, Colonialism and Modernity: Histories and Themes, 1, UNSW Press, Sydney NSW Australia.
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This book outlines the intertwined histories and scholarly debates about them , and investigates some aspects in more detail

Ghosh, D. 2012, Shadowlines: Women and Borders in Contemporary Asia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Ghosh, D., Goodall, H. & Donald, S.J. 2008, Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania, Routledge, U.K..

Goodall, H., Ghosh, D. & Donald, S.J. 2008, Fresh and Salt: water, borders and sovereignty, Routledge, London.

Ghosh, D. & Muecke, S. 2007, Cultures of Trade: Indian Ocean Exchanges, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle.

Ghosh, D. 2012, ''Madhu pretends to be Mary': Gender, Labour and the Making of Meaning in Bangalore Call Centres' in Devleena Ghosh (ed), Shadowlines: Women and Borders in Contemporary Asia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-on-Tyne, pp. 120-144.

Ghosh, D. & Goodall, H. 2012, 'Unauthorised Voyagers across Two Oceans: Africans, Indians and Aborigines in Australia' in Toledano; Ehud, R. (eds), African Communities in Asia and the Mediterranean: Identities between Integration and Conflict, Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey, pp. 147-168.
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Considering movements of people between South Asia, Africa and Australia offers an opporrunity to rethink Empire and more broadly to question the way we have understood the meaning of land and landscapes. In Australia, until the mid-twentieth century, history focused on the distance between the colony of Australia and that of metropolitan Britain, tracing the impact that the enormity of that distance and the duration of travel had in shaping the colony. More recently, historians have focused attention on the links between settler colonies and the movements of ideology, policy, popular culture and people between these colonies of America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and even South America.

Ghosh, D. 2010, 'Sweet Dreams are Made of This: Bollywood and Transnational South Asians in Australia' in Andrew Hassam & Makarand Paranjape (eds), Bollywood in Australia: Transnationalism & Cultural Production, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, pp. 159-176.
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About ten years ago I wrote an article that examined the domestic cultures of young Indo-Fijians who had migrated to Sydney after the coups in Fiji. At that time, I remarked that many of the parents of my interlocutors identified the viewing of Hindi films as essential to feeling Indian. Ninety per cent of my informants watched at least one Hindi film per week, usually at the weekend. and asÀ a family practice. Most families had large electronic collections of Indian films and episodes of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, legal or pirated, and Hindi film music and song formed by far the largest category of popular music in the Indo-Fijian community. TV and DVD viewing appeared to offer powerful representations of both Indian and AustralianÀ culture for the Indo-Fijian community and the DVD player seems to have been appropriated by many parents as a means of recreating cultural traditions, though their efforts appeared to be both subverted and diverted by young people.

Ghosh, D. & Muecke, S. 2009, ''The Fisherman's Lot': popular responses to the Indian Ocean in economic and ecological crisis' in Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall & Stephanie Donald (eds), Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania, Routledge, London, UK, pp. 72-86.
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Ghosh, D., Goodall, H. & Muecke, S. 2009, 'Introduction - fresh and salt' in Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall & Stephanie Donald (eds), Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania, Routledge, London, UK, pp. 1-13.
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Ghosh, D. 2008, ''I didn't eat the baby, the dingo ate the baby':' in H. Lee (ed), Ties to the Homeland: Second Generation Transnationalism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle UK, pp. 181-196.
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Ghosh, D. 2008, 'Coda: Eleven Stars over the Last Moment of Andalusia' in Paul Allatson and Jo McCormack (eds), Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, pp. 277-287.
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Ghosh, D. 2008, 'Performing Outside One's Comfort Zone: India@Oz' in As others see us: the values debate in Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne Australia, pp. 125-136.
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Nixon, D.A. & Ghosh, D. 2008, 'Fires in the Kangra: A british Soldier's Story of Partition' in Roy, AG & bhatia, N (eds), Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement, and Resettlement, Pearson Education, Delhi, India, pp. 174-191.
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Ghosh, D. & Muecke, S. 2007, 'Introduction' in Devleena Ghosh and Stephen Muecke (eds), Cultures of Trade: Indian Ocean Exchanges, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, pp. 1-9.
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Ghosh, D. 2005, ''Harem women seem the happiest to me' Novel women, fictions of domesticity and national development in India' in Mikula Maja (ed), Women, Activism and Social Change: Stretching Boundaries, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 157-178.
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Ghosh, D. 2005, 'Re-Crossing a Different water: Colonialism, Indigenism and Indo-Fijian migration' in Globalization, Regionalization and Social Change in the Pacific Rim, Editorial Centro Univeritario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Guadaljara, Mexico, pp. 284-315.
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Ghosh, D. & Muecke, S. 2004, 'Commerce and Culture in the Pre-Colonial Indian Ocean' in Iwabuchi, K; Muecke, S; Thomas, M (eds), Rogue Flows: Trans -Asian Cultural Traffic, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, China, pp. 13-30.
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Ghosh, D. 2003, ''I can make chutney out of anything': young Indians growing up in Sydney' in Butcher, Mellisa and Thomas, Mandy (eds), Ingenious: emerging youth cultures in urban Australia, Pluto Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 66-84.
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Ghosh, D. 2000, 'Home Away from Home: the Indo-Fijian Community in Sydney' in Ang, Ien; Chalmers, Sharon; Law, Lisa; Thomas, Mandy (eds), Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media and Popular Culture, Pluto Press, Sydney Australia, pp. 68-86.

Ghosh, D. 2012, 'Shadowlines: Interrogating 'Woman' and 'Asia'' in Devleena Ghosh (ed), Shadowlines: Women and Borders in Contemporary Asia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-on-Tyne, pp. 1-12.

Ghosh, D. 2007, 'India@Oz: The Curry Pacific' in Stephanie Lawson and Wayne Peake (eds), Globalization and Regionalization: Views from the Pacific Rim, Editorial Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara Mexico.

Ghosh, D. & Muecke, S. 2007, 'Natural Logics of the Indian Ocean' in Cultures of Trade: Indian Ocean Exchanges, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, pp. 150-163.
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Ghosh, D. 2011, 'Under the Radar of Empire: Unregulated Travel in the Indian Ocean', Journal of Social History, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 497-514.
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This article explores unregulated circulation of people from South Asia to Australia and argues that these movements constitute both an integral and a destabilizing element in the conceptualization of the nation state and diasporic movements in the19th and 20th centuries. Differential mobility for populations, depending on race, class, and gender, meant that attempts by imperial and colonial governments to control the movements of their subjects met with indifferent success. Such unregulated journeys were hard to monitor, difficult to police and, ultimately, impossible to regulate within the expanded imperial networks of communication and transport, which opened up new ways for people, ideas, and technologies to circulate under the radar of Empire

Berger, M. & Ghosh, D. 2010, 'Geopolitics And The Cold War Developmental State In Asia: From The Culture Of National Development To The Development Of National Culture In Independent India', Geopolitics, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 586-605.
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Contrary to the view of some observers who insist that the Cold War was of limited or no relevance to the transition from colonies to nation-states after 1945 we argue that the geopolitics of the Cold War played a crucial role in shaping the character an

Goodall, H., Ghosh, D. & Todd, L. 2008, 'Jumping Ship - Skirting Empire: Indians, Aborigines and Australians across the Indian Ocean', Transforming Cultures eJournal, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 44-74.
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Relationships between South Asians and Australians during the colonial period have been little investigated. Closer attention to the dramatically expanded sea trade after 1850 and the relatively uncontrolled movement of people, ideas and goods which occurred on them, despite claims of imperial regulation, suggests that significant numbers of Indians among others entered Australia outside the immigration restrictions of empire or settlers. Given that many of them entered or remained in Australia without official sanction, their histories will not be found in the official immigration records, but rather in the memories and momentos of the communities into which they might have moved. Exploring the histories of Aboriginal communities and of maritime working class networks does allow a previously unwritten history to emerge: not only of Indian individuals with complex personal and working histories, but often as activists in the campaigns against racial discrimination and in support of decolonization. Yet their heritage has been obscured. The polarizing conflict between settlers and Aboriginal Australians has invariably meant that Aboriginal people of mixed background had to `choose sides+ to be counted simplistically as either `black+ or `white+. The need to defend the community+s rights has meant that Aboriginal people had to be unequivocal in their identification and this simplification has had to take precedence over the assertion of a diverse heritage. In working class histories, the mobilization of selective ethnic stereotyping has meant that the history of Indians as workers, as unionists and as activists has been distorted and ignored.

Ghosh, D. 2006, ''Women' in 'Asia': An Interrogation', Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-12.
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The articles in this special issue section of PORTAL had their first iteration as presentations in the Eighth Women in Asia Conference held at the University of Technology Sydney in 2005, the theme of which was `Shadow Lines+. The concept `Women in Asia+ is problematic since some of the major debates in gender or women+s studies have focused on the diversity of women+s life worlds and beings and the contested nature of the term `Asia+. As a theme it has the potential to become a holdall phrase for scholarship, research and activist work `from Suez to Suva+. However, reflecting on these difficult terms can be a creative and rewarding process. The attempt to locate Australia within the region, rather than within a putative `west+, and to deal with her geography rather than just her white history, can be an effective way of challenging many current `white blindfold+ discourses. At the same time, gendered analyses of society, politics and culture that attempt a re-insertion of `herstories+ into academic discourses have to be sophisticated enough to demonstrate the intrinsic gendering of all-embracing, supposedly `neutral+, ideas such as race, nationalism, ethics, and the state, rather than simply `adding in+ women. The marginalised spaces of women+s activities have to be legitimated as crucial elements of all social relations, highlighting the intimate relationships and connections between men and women. These concerns animate the papers collected in this issue.

Ghosh, D. & Muecke, S. 2006, 'Natural Logics of the Indian Ocean', Cultural Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 118-131.
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Ghosh, D. 2004, 'Re-crossing a different water: colonialism and Third Worldism in Fiji', Third World Quarterly, vol. 25, pp. 111-130.
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Ghosh, D. 2001, 'Indigeneity and Indenture: Land and identity in Fiji', UTS Review: Cultural Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 29-44.
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Ghosh, D. 2001, 'Water out of fire:novel women, national fictions and the legacy of Nehruvian developmentalism in India', The World Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 951-967.
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Ghosh, D. & Muecke, S. 2000, 'Editor's Introduction', UTS Review, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1-5.

Ghosh, D. & Muecke, S. 2000, 'Indian Ocean Stories', UTS Review, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 24-43.

Ghosh, D. & Osuri, G. 2012, 'India/cinema: an archive of politics and pleasure', Continuum Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 799-802.

Ghosh, D. & Garcia, B.C. 2011, 'Health and Borders across Time and Cultures: Introduction', PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1-6.

Ghosh, D. & Davidson, L.S. 2009, 'Ocean of Stories: An Introduction', Transforming Cultures, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-5.

Ghosh, D. & Osuri, G. 2012, 'India/cinema: an archive of politics and pleasure', Continuum Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 26, no. 6.

Ghosh, D. & Garcia, B.C. 2011, 'Health and Borders across Time and Cultures: China, India and the Indian Ocean Region', PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 8, no. 2.
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Co-editor with Beatriz Carrillo Garcia

Ghosh, D. & Davidson, L.S. 2009, 'Ocean of Stories: Communication and Contested Identities across the Indian Ocean', Transforming Cultures eJournal, vol. 4, no. 2.

Ghosh, D. & Davidson, L.S. 2008, 'Cultural Currents of the Indian Ocean', Transforming Cultures eJournal, vol. 3, no. 2.

Ghosh, D. 2006, '"Building on Sand" & "Fresh & Salt"', Transforming Cultures.

Ghosh, D. & Leigh, B.R. 2006, 'Special Issue: Women in Asia', Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, vol. 3, no. 2.
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Ghosh, D. & Muecke, S. 2000, 'Indian Ocean Issue', Transforming Cultures eJournal, vol. 6.

Maclurcan, D., Ford, M.J., Cortie, M.B. & Ghosh, D. 2004, 'Medical Nanotechnology and Developing Nations', Oz Nano, Cairns, Australia, November 2003 in Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Nanotechnology Forum 2003, ed Schulte, J, World Scientific Publishing Co, Singapore, pp. 165-172.
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Goodall, H., Ghosh, D. & Todd, L. 2006, 'Behind the back of Empire: people, technologies and ideas 'jumping ship' India and Australia 1788 - 1948', Culture, Identity and Performance, CAPSTRANS, University of Woollongong, November 2006.

Barclay, K.M., Ghosh, D., Goodall, H. 2005, 'Water and Borders - Oceanic Cultures', Theory and Project Workshop, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS, August 2005.
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