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Alaka Malwade Basu (born 1951) is an Indian sociologist and demographer, a professor of development sociology at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Between 2002 and 2008, she was the director of the South Asia Program of Cornell University.
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Alaka Basu researches and teaches in the broad area of Social Demography. Her organizing premise is that not all forms of diversity are to be embraced or celebrated – in matters of life and death, we want convergence rather than difference. Her teaching and research expand on this proposition in the areas of population and development, reproductive...
While her general field of research is Demography, within this field, Professor Basu is particularly interested in the vast diversity of human experience as well as the equally vast potential for change even in social behaviors and practices that seem to be culturally ingrained or biologically immutable. In both the areas of reproduction as well as...
Professor Basu’s ‘public’ engagement happens through frequent contributions in the news media, as well as presentations to lay groups within and outside the Cornell campus. She has also been long interested in increasing interaction with researchers in her field who are working in relative isolation; that is, without access to the kind of physical ...
Professor Basu's teaching focus has been on analyzing the demographic diversity and the complexity of the world and understanding the many injustices and deprivations that underlie some of this diversity. For example, her course on Theories of Reproduction (DSOC4210) used the example of birth rates and reproductive practices to illustrate the enorm...
(with S. Kumar), ‘Bride Price, Dowry, and Young Men with Time to Kill: An Essay on Male Marriage Postponement in India’, Population Studies, forthcoming.With K. Basu and J. M. U. Tapia (2020) “The complexity of managing COVID-19: How important is good governance?” in Brookings, Washington, DC, Reimagining the Global Economy: Building Back Better in...(Jointly with the other Commissioners) Accelerate progress—sexual and reproductive health and rights for all: Report of the Guttmacher–Lancet Commission, The Lancet391(10140): 2642-2692, May 2018.“And now it is Zika, Sex and Reproductive Health”, Economic and Political Weekly, 2016. (with S. Desai), “Middle Class Dreams: The Rise of One Child Families in India”, Asian Population Studies,...Editor, “Policy Briefs’ of the Sociology of DevelopmentSection of the American Sociological Association, since 2019.Theme convener for ‘Culture, Ethnicity, Race, Religion and Language’ for the forthcoming IUSSP General Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) Dec. 2021Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Population and Development ReviewMember, Editorial Advisory Board, Asian Population StudiesPopulation DynamicsGender and HealthTheories of ReproductionInequalities in Health and SurvivalAlaka Basu is a professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the United Nations Foundation, Washington, D.C. She was the director of the South Asia Program at Cornell from 2002 to 2008.
Alaka Basu. Visiting Scholar, and Former Professor, Department of Global Development. Geographic Research Area: India. Teaching/Research Interests: Population studies, reproductive health and family planning, gender and development, child health and mortality, and culture and demographic behavior.
A laka Basu is a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the United Nations Foundation. She is a former professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. Professor Basu researches and teaches in the broad area of Social Demography. Her organizing premise is that not all ...
Alaka Basu is Senior Fellow, Reproductive Health with strong interests in public health. Alaka has published widely in the areas of reproductive health and family planning, gender and development, child health and mortality, and the context and politics of population policy.
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