Bidisha Chaudhuri
Assistant Professor
ICT
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
India
Biography
Prof. Bidisha Chaudhuri has joined the institute in 2013. She has completed her PhD from the South Asia Institute at the Heidelberg University, Germany in 2012. The title of her doctoral thesis was Hybridising (e) Governance in India: The Interplay of Politics, Technology and Culture. She received an M.A in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and a Joint European Masters in Global Studies from University of Leipzig (Germany) and Vienna University (Austria). She has worked in research institutions and developmental organisations in India and abroad. Her research interests include governance, gender and development, information communication technology (ICT) for development, policy reform and South Asian politics.
Research Interest
e-Governance, Public Policy reform, Gender and Development, South Asian politics, Information Communication Technology (ICT) for Development
Publications
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2016 Book Chapter: “Politics of ‘Good Governance’: Otherising Governance in India†in Politics of the Other in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts edited by Lion Koenig and Bidisha Chaudhuri. London: Routledge
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2016: Book (Co-Edited Volume): Politics of the Other in India and China: Western Concepts in NonWestern Contexts edited by Lion Koenig and Bidisha Chaudhuri. London: Routledge
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Forthcoming: Journal Paper (Co-authored): “The Aadhaar Scheme: A cornerstone of a new citizenship regime in India?†in Certifications of Citizenship: the history, politics and materiality of identity documents in South Asia: A Special Issue Contemporary South Asia
