Dr. Mohita Bhatia
Mohita Bhatia received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, UK. She was a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at the Center for South Asia, Stanford University (2016-2018).
Her research engages with issues of power, identity and belonging and spans areas of ethnic conflicts, borderlands, everyday nationalism, refugee issues, citizenship processes, religion, secularization, and multiple marginalities. Ethnography has been at the core of her various research works including her recent book 鈥楻ethinking Conflict at the Margins鈥�, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. Her current focus is a collaborative book project on the South Asian diaspora and digital imaginations.
Her teaching interests include qualitative research methods, ethnography, sociological theory, sociology of everyday life, ethnic conflicts and nationalism.
Selected Publications
Books:
Bhatia, M. 2020. Rethinking Conflict at the Margins: Dalits and Borderland Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir, Cambridge University Press.
Tremblay, R. and M. Bhatia, eds. 2020. Religion and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir. Routledge.
Book Chapters:
Bhatia, M. and M. Sharma. Forthcoming 鈥淩efugees from Pakistan-Administered- Kashmir: Identities, Refugeness and Citizenship Experiences鈥� in M. Bhatia, R. Chowdhary, and S. Singh eds. Life on the Margins: Borderland narratives and Conflict, Orient Blackswan.
Bhatia, M. 2020. 鈥淪ecularization and Desecularization: Interrogating the Canonical Approaches鈥� in Tremblay, R. and M Bhatia eds. Religion and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir, Routledge.
Wender, A. And M. Bhatia. 2020. 鈥淢oving Beyond Secular-Religious Boundaries: A Framework for Understanding the interaction between Religion and Politics鈥� in Religion and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir, Routledge 2020.
Bhatia, M. 2017. 鈥淏eyond the 鈥楰ashmir鈥� Meta-Narrative: Caste, Identities, and the Politics of Conflict in Jammu and Kashmir鈥� in Zutshi, C. ed. New Perspectives on Kashmir: History, Representation, Politics, Cambridge University Press.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles:
Bhatia, M. 2014. 鈥溾�楧alits鈥� in Jammu and Kashmir: Resistance and Collaboration in a Conflict Situation鈥� Asian Survey, Vol 54, No. 5.
Bhatia, M. 2013. 鈥淩evisiting Secularism: Secularism and Secularization-A Bibliographical Essay鈥�, Economic and Political Weekly. Vol XLVIII, No. 50.
Bhatia, M. 2009. Women鈥檚 Mobilization in the Jammu Agitation: Religion, Caste, Community and Gender, Economic and Political Weekly. Volume 44, No. 26 and 27.
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