Debangana Chatterjee

About

Debangana Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor (Social Sciences) at the National Law School of India University, where she also serves as Assistant Dean of Research and Co-Director of the Centre for Women and the Law (CWL). Her 2023 book, Lives of Circumcised and Veiled Women, examines international and Indian discourses on female circumcision and Islamic veiling.

Employment

• National Law School of India University Assistant Professor (Social Sciences)
  2023 - Present
• Jain University Assistant Professor
  2021 - 2023

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru University PhD
  2016 - 2022

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (7)

• ‘Amidst the Hardships of Life, COVID Did Not Affect Us, nor Were We Scared of It’: The Politics of Contagion, Agency, and Narratives From Bengaluru’s Home-Based Female Sex Workers
  Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 2026 DOI: 10.1177/03043754261445790
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• An Empire of Artificial Intelligence: Exploring an Intersection of Politics, Society, and Creativity
  International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s10767-024-09484-3
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• Afghan Women and the Burqa Trope
  The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between 2023 DOI: 10.4324/9781003349945-14
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• Lives of Circumcised and Veiled Women
  Routledge (Taylor & Francis) 2023 DOI: 10.4324/9781003425045
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• Sanctions in Ukraine War The Racial Tilting of International Politics
  Economic and Political Weekly 2022
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• Globalization and the Politics of Photographic Representation: Essentializing the Moments of Agony
  Jadavpur Journal of International Relations 2018 DOI: 10.1177/0973598418782745
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• Gendering ISIS and Mapping the Role of Women
  Contemporary Review of the Middle East 2016 DOI: 10.1177/2347798916638214
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