Institute of Development Studies

Biography

Jaideep Gupte is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, where his research is on violence, vulnerability and conflict, with a particular geographic focus on South Asia. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai. Jaideep's areas of specialisation include (1) policing and security for development, and (2) vulnerability, violence and informal justice in urban slums. He occasionally contributes opinion pieces and reports to Indian national dailies. Jaideep's training is in Politics (University of Oxford), Development Studies (IDS, University of Sussex), and Economics (Simon Fraser University). He has research experience in India, Bangladesh, and Nigeria.

Selected Projects and Recent Work

• Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC)
• Changing Livelihoods in Darfur Since 2005
• Agency and Governance in Contexts of Civil Conflict
• MICROCON

Thematic Expertise

Conflict and Violence; Urban Poverty; Security and Conflict.

Geographic Expertise

Central and South Asia; Sub Saharan Africa; Bangladesh; India; Nigeria.

Selected Publications »»

• Gupte, J. (2011) 'Extralegal Security and Policing for the Urban Dispossessed in Mumbai' in Desai R. and Sanyal, R. (eds) (eds), Urbanizing Citizenship: Contested Spaces in Indian Cities, Sage, New Delhi
• Desai R. and Sanyal, R. (eds) (2011) 'Urbanizing Citizenship: Contested Spaces in Indian Cities' , Sage, New Delhi
• Gupte, J., Justino, P. and Tranchant, J-P. (2010) 'Civil Violence in Maharashtra: Micro-Level Foundations and Welfare Consequences' , Manchester: Chronic Poverty Research Centre
• Gupte, J. (2010) 'Security Provision in Slum Re-Settlement Schemes in Mumbai: A Case Study of the Lallubhai Compound Settlement, Mankhurd', Mumbai Reader 9.1:263-279, Mumbai:
• Gupte, J. (2008) 'Linking Urban Vulnerability, Infra-Power and 'Communal' Violence: Extralegal Security and Policing in Nagpada, Mumbai' , Brisbane: Global Development Network
• Gupte, J. and Mehta, L. (2007) 'Disjunctures in Labelling Refugees and Oustees' in Moncrieffe, J., Eyben, R. et al. (eds), The Power of Labelling, London: Earthscan