Sanjoy Chakravorty
Professor
Office: 325 Gladfelter hall
Tel: 215 204 1434
E-mail: sanjoy@temple.edu
Areas of Expertise
India, Distribution, Development, Globalization, Cities
Education
1992 - Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California.
1983 - B.E in Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
Research
I work on two broad themes. My empirical work focuses on India (especially contemporary issues like industrialization and urbanization). My theoretical work focuses on distribution (of development otcomes, especially the spatial aspects). I have lately been focusing on book-length works. Fragments of Inequality describes much of my current thinking on structure and change in income distributions. Made in India draws on the industry location work I have done in the last five to six years.
I have authored or co-authored around fifty journal papers, book chapters and reports. The papers have been widely published in geography, development economics, planning, and urban journals. My research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Institute of Justice, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and the World Bank.
Right now I am making inroads into a book (provisionally titled "The Price of Land") and begining some work on market towns (mandis) with colleagues at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania.
Recent publications
Books
Chakravorty, S. and S. Lall. 2007. Made in India : The Economic Geography and Political Economy of Industrialization. Oxford University Press.
Chakravorty, S. 2006. Fragments of Inequality: Social, Spatial, and Evolutionary Analyses of Income Distribution. Routledge.
G. Rengert, J. Ratcliffe, and S. Chakravorty. 2005. Policing Illegal Drug Markets: Geographic Approaches to Crime Reduction. Criminal Justice Press.
Papers/Chapters
Chakravorty, S. 2010. Clusters and Regional Development. In The International Studies Encyclopedia Volume 1. R. A. Denemark, ed. Pp. 323-42 .
Chakravorty, S. 2008. “Industrialization: South Asia.” “Urbanism and Urbanization: South Asia." “Kolkata.” In Encyclopedia of the Modern World. P. N. Stearns, Ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chakravorty, S. 2007. “Ad hocism at Large: Why Indian Urban Planning is Limited to Project Implementation.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Urban Planning and Environment. University of Mumbai.
Stahler, G.J., Mazzella, S., Mennis, J., Chakravorty, S., Rengert, G., and Spiga, R. 2007. The Effect of Individual, Program, and Neighborhood Variables on Continuity of Treatment Among Dually Diagnosed Individuals. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 87:54-62.
Chakravorty, S., J. Koo, and S. Lall. 2006. Do Localization Economies Matter in Cluster Formation? Questioning the Conventional Wisdom with Data from Indian Metropolises. Environment and Planning A 37:331-353.
Lall, S. and S. Chakravorty. 2005. Industrial Location and Spatial Inequality: Theory and Evidence from India. Review of Development Economics 9: 47-68. Reprinted in Spatial Disaparities in Human Development: Perspectives from Asia . Eds., R. Kanbur and A. Venables. Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 2006.
Chakravorty, S. 2005. From Colonial City to Global City? The Far-From-Complete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta, in The Urban Geography Reader . Eds. N.R. Fyfe and J.T. Kenny. London and New York : Routledge, pp. 84-92. Reprinted from a chapter with the same name in Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? Eds. P. Marcuse and R. van Kempen. Oxford : Blackwell. Pp. 56-77.
Chakravorty, S. 2005. Urban Development in the Global Periphery: The Consequences of Economic and Ideological Globalization. In Globalization and Urban Development. H. W. Richardson and C-H. Bae, editors. Springer: Berlin and New York. Pp. 29-42. (Reprint from Annals of Regional Science).
Chakravorty, S. 2005. The History and Geography of Regional Development Theory: A Futile Search for a Paradigm. In Development, Displacement and Disparity – India in the Last Quarter of the 20 th Century . Eds., S. Marjit and N. Banerjee. New Delhi : Orient-Longman, pp. 29-52.
Teaching
In Fall 2010 I am teaching two courses (links below). I will be on sabbatical during 2011 (the calender year).
GUS 8031 Critical Issues in Globalization, Social Justice and Sustainability
GUS 0831 Global Cities