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Rupali Chatterjee completed her Ph.D. in Geography at Clark University Massachuesetts. She has a Masters and M.Phil. in Geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and a Bachelors in Geography from Loreto College, Calcutta. Dr. Chatterjee is interested in there broad strands of research on the economic, cultural and geopolitical implications of globalization in the first and the third world. She is particularly interested in the contradictions of globalization, capital-labour confrontations, class-identity negotiations, market-state reorganizations, and hegemony-counter-hegemonic contestations. She also investigates urban transformations, landscape changes, segregation, gettoization, and other forms of urban exclusions in the context of a Neoliberal entrepreneurial turn in urban governance all over the world. More specifically, she engages with justice and social movement literature to investigate class exclusion, othering, Islamophobia, religious fundsamentalism, identity politics. Theoretically, Chatterjee adopts a political economic approach and attempts a radical analysis of dispossession, marginalization, and exclusion. Presently, Dr. Chatterjee is teaching Geography of International Affairs, Elements of Cultural Geography, and Human Geography at Kamaraj University, Madurai.