Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya

Gargi Bhattacharyya writes and teaches on issues of inequality, social justice and state practices. Gargi’s publications include:

• Tales of dark-skinned women: race, gender and global culture. London: UCL Press, 1998.
• Race and Power. London: Routledge, 2001
• Sexuality and Society; an introduction. London: Routledge, 2002.
• Traffick; the illicit movement of people and things. London: Pluto, 2005.
• Dangerous brown men: exploiting sex, violence and feminism in the war on terror. London: Zed Books, 2008.
• (ed.) Ethnicities and values in a changing world. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
• Crisis, austerity and everyday life: Living in a time of diminishing expectations. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• Go Home? The politics of immigration controversies. Jones, H, Gunaratnam, Y, Bhattacharyya, G, Davies, W, Dhaliwal, S, Forkert, F, Jackson, E and Saltus, R. Manchester: MUP, 2017. Also available as a free ebook
• Rethinking racial capitalism: questions of reproduction and survival. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.
• How media and conflicts make migrants. Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya and Janna Graham. Manchester: MUP, 2020.
• Empire's endgame: Racism and the British State, with Adam Elliott-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nisancioglu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany, Luke De Noronha. London: Pluto, 2021.

Gargi hosts the Left Book Club series ‘Who’s afraid of anticapitalism?’ and is a founding editor of the political book series, Fireworks, published by Pluto Press.

Gargi is completing a book on contemporary mutations of racial capitalism, due to be published by Polity Press in 2022.