Dr Pratichi Chatterjee (she/her)
School of Geography and Planning
Research Fellow
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School of Geography and Planning
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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Pratichi Chatterjee is a Research Fellow in the School of Geography and Planning. Her work is funded by the Housing Studies Charitable Trust. Her current research traces the housing history of the city of Leeds, England, through the lens of race.
Pratichi works across housing, urban geography, and planning. Prior to joining Sheffield, she was based at the University of Huddersfield, funded by the Yorkshire Policy Engagement and Research Network, where her research looked at the housing implications of refugee and asylum policy in England, and the ongoing efforts to address residential damp and mould, especially in the social housing sector. Pratichi has also worked at the University of Leeds, on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, investigating the role of prefabricated house-building in responding to England's housing crisis. Outside of academia Pratichi worked with the charity Crisis, to develop their research on race and homelessness.
Pratichi's PhD was based at the University of Sydney where she looked at the drivers and impacts of public housing redevelopment and infrastructure building and the continuing influence of colonisation on these city-building processes.
- Research interests
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Pratichi's work investigates the politics of redevelopment, homelessness, and housing & health. She is especially interested in how structural inequalities relating to race, class and colonisation shape drivers and outcomes in these areas, as well as the potential and challenges of community activism in creating a more just status quo. Pratichi draws on theoretical work from urban geography, planning and critical legal studies, with a focus on questions of dispossession, property and time.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- How can scholarship contribute to housing justice? Three roles for researchers. Housing, Theory and Society, 41(5), 591-607. View this article in WRRO
- The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(5), 805-825. View this article in WRRO
- Beyond shelter: the political work of housing Diverging space for deviants: the politics of Atlanta's public housing. International Journal of Housing Policy, 21(4), 629-634. View this article in WRRO
- Municipal statecraft for the smart city: retooling the smart entrepreneurial city?. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 53(7), 1730-1748. View this article in WRRO
- The colonial reproduction of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: violence against indigenous peoples for land development. Journal of Genocide Research, 23(2), 302-324. View this article in WRRO
- Documentary and resistance: There goes our neighbourhood, #WeLiveHere2017 and the Waterloo estate redevelopment. International Journal of Housing Policy, 22(3), 329-350. View this article in WRRO
- The new enclosure: a view on landownership from Sydney. Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(1), 61-65. View this article in WRRO
- Imploding activism: Challenges and possibilities of housing scholar-activism. Radical Housing Journal, 1(1), 189-204. View this article in WRRO
Book chapters
- Overcoming over-research? Reflections from Sydney's ‘Petri dish' In Button C & Taylor Aiken G (Ed.), Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach (pp. 24-36). Routledge View this article in WRRO
Reports
- Navigating statutory homelessness support: Impacts of asylum and refugee policy View this article in WRRO
- Prefabs sprouting: Modern Methods of Construction and the English housing crisis
- How can scholarship contribute to housing justice? Three roles for researchers. Housing, Theory and Society, 41(5), 591-607. View this article in WRRO