Dr. Sahana Ghosh

Biography

Sahana Ghosh is a social anthropologist broadly interested in the forms and experiences of inequality produced at the intersection of mobility, policing, and gender in the contemporary world. She utilizes ethnography and feminist approaches to study a range of concerns including borders and borderlands, the mobility of people and goods, citizenship, refuge, neighborliness, national security states, agrarian change, spatial history, transnational kinship, and the political economy of gendered labor. Her research focuses primarily on India and Bangladesh, culminating in her book, 'Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security at the India-Bangladesh Borderlands,' published by University of California Press in 2023 and Yoda Press in 2024. This work chronicles the slow transformations in the connected region of national borderlands and examines the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the management of threats to security and mobility. Ghosh's book has received the Association of Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize, Honorable Mention in 2024. She has published academic writings and photo essays in prominent journals and contributes to podcasts and op-eds, engaging with wider public debates on pertinent topics.

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