{"id":28367,"date":"2023-04-24T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/sias\/?page_id=28367"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:54:31","slug":"dr-arani-basu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/sias\/dr-arani-basu\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Arani Basu"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"28367\" class=\"elementor elementor-28367\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cac80f7 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"cac80f7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7791\" aria-expanded=\"false\">About<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-7792\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7792\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-7793\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-7794\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7794\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Teaching Modules<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7791\" aria-expanded=\"false\">About<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7791\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7791\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Arani is a political sociologist whose work focuses on political economy of media, digital\nmedia, diasporic politics and politics of religion in India. His work examines the intersections\nof media, ideology, power, and transnational political mobilization. He is the author of\nUnderstanding Propaganda: A Study of Media in Contemporary India with Palgrave\nMacmillan, Singapore (2025), which critically examines media practices, ideological\nproduction, and propaganda in contemporary India through the lens of \u201cpropaganda\ninfrastructure\u201d. He is currently co-editing an interdisciplinary volume titled Pandemics and\nMobilities with Brill Publishers, Leiden (2026) and is working on his second monograph on\ndiasporic political formations and transnational religious mobilization. Arani earned his PhD\nin Sociology from the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin.\nHe also holds a postgraduate diploma in Media Studies, jointly awarded by the South Asian\nMedia School, Lahore, and Goldsmiths, University of London.\n<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7792\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7792\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7792\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Media Practices and Political Mobilization<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Media Propaganda<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diasporic Politics<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethno-religious nationalism<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7793\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><b>Books<\/b><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-981-95-1665-0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A. (2025) Understanding Propaganda: A Study of Media in Contemporary India (Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore)\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bielefeld.de\/blog\/soziologie\/mediaresource\/c96294e6-a613-4494-8162-6eaf67328e3e\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A. et al. ed. (2026) Pandemics and Mobilities (forthcoming), Brill, Leiden<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Journal Articles\u00a0<\/b><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/19438192.2026.2612812\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A. et al. (2026). Indian hometown associations in Germany: diasporic fragmentations and Hindu majoritarianism.\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Asian Diaspora<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 1-25.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.tplondon.com\/md\/article\/view\/3597\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A. et al. (2025). Digital discords and digital othering: How social media practices in the diaspora mimic the home-grown social inequalities among the Indian migrants in Germany.\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Migration and Diversity<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2), 15-31.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/transcience\/Vol14_No1_S43_S50.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A et al. (2023) Saffronization of a Land: Is it possible to separate Hinduism from Hindutva in India?, Transcience: A Journal of Global Studies, Vol. 14, Issue 1\/2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.tplondon.com\/md\/article\/view\/3066\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A. et al. (2023) Kerala Nurses in Germany: From Heteronormativity to Transnational Patriarchy, Migration and Diversity, Vol. 2, Issue 2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/transcience\/Vol7_No2_27_35.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A. (2016) Understanding Media-Politics-Society-Economy\u00a0Interrelationship: Relevance of Habermas and Chomsky in India, Transcience: A Journal of Global Studies, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 27-35<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/309474534_DISSEMINATION_OF_NEWS_IN_INDIA_THROUGH_MEDIATED_BUZZWORDS_EMERGENCE_AND_KEY_FEATURES\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A. (2016) Dissemination of News in India through Mediated Buzzwords, Journal of Media Critique, Vol. 2, Issue 7, pp. 55-76<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/birikimdergisi.com\/dergiler\/birikim\/1\/sayi-330-ekim-2016-330-ekim-2016\/7949\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soyler, T., Basu, A. et al. (2016) Hindistan&#8217;dan tan\u0131d\u0131k bir hik\u00e2ye, Birikim Dergisi, Vol. 10, pp. 106-114.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainstreamweekly.net\/article4062.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A. (2013) Political Bias of the Media in Bengal: A Sociological Perspective, Mainstream Weekly, Vol. LI. No. 13, pp. 19-24<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/transcience\/Vol4_Issue1_2013_13_19.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A. (2013) History of Media in Bengal: A Chronological Overview, Transcience: A Journal of Global Studies, Vol. 4, Issue.1, pp. 13-19<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainstreamweekly.net\/article4511.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A. (2013) Merkel Short of Absolute Majority Reaches out to Leftist Rivals\u201d, Mainstream Weekly, Vol. LI. No. 43, pp. 35-41<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Book Reviews:\u00a0<\/b><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Arani-Basu\/publication\/369743698_Free_Speech_and_Media_Freedom_in_Corporate_India\/links\/642a8984a1b72772e44861fd\/Free-Speech-and-Media-Freedom-in-Corporate-India.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A. (2021) Review of Freedom, Civility, Commerce: Contemporary Media and the Public by Sukumar Muralidharan, Gurgaon: Three Essays Collective, 2018 in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 55, Issue 41<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/1329878X17709662i?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basu, A.\u00a0 (2018) Review of Making News in Global India: Media, Publics and Politics by Sahana Udupa, Cambridge University Press, 2015 in Society and Culture in South Asia, Vol. 5, Issue 1<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7794\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Teaching Modules<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7794\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7794\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Media and the Public<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social Conflict and Religious Division: Exploring Contemporary India<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qualitative Research Methods<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exploring the Social and the Historical<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Political Sociology of Globalisation<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communities, Identities and Cultures in India<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Political Economy of Development<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Arani Basu Assistant Professor, Sociology, Humanities and Social Science PhD, Humboldt University aranibasu@krea.edu.in Facebook Twitter Youtube Linkedin Instagram Link About Research Publications Teaching Modules About Arani is a political sociologist whose work focuses on political economy of media, digital media, diasporic politics and politics of religion in India. 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