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Research interests
Uttaran Dutta studies creative ways to address development, health and social disparity issues. His research focuses on sustainable development and social change in marginalized communities, analyzing the importance of culture, communication, design and innovation in transforming the lives of people who are socially, politically and economically poor. In all his work, local participants are the key forces in identifying and developing cost-effective solutions using local resources.
In one project, Dr. Dutta is developing a computer application for illiterate people in rural India to access useful information regarding local weather, employment, education, and other basic services such as healthcare. In another project, he collaborated with local people to construct a mini-hospital, library-cum-museum and a protection-wall to save sacred environmental resources in remote indigenous villages in eastern India.
Additionally, he researches the folk-culture and indigenous knowledge of the underserved to document and understand alternate ways of viewing the world.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Purdue University
… → 2013
M.Des, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
External positions
Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Research interests
- Rural
- visual communication design
- Human values
- Folk
- social innovation
- Intercultural Communication
- India
- Subaltern
- health communication
- indigenous
- ICT for Development
- action research
- Development Communication
- Social change
- ethnography
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Centering the Margins: The Precarity of Bangladeshi Low-Income Migrant Workers During the Time of COVID-19
Jamil, R. & Dutta, U., Sep 2021, In: American Behavioral Scientist. 65, 10, p. 1384-1405 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access5 Scopus citations -
Communication design and co-creation of information solutions for sustainable social change at the margins
Dutta, U., Jan 1 2021, Handbook of Communication and Development. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., p. 340-358 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Songs of dissent and consciousness: Pronouncements of the bauls of rural Bengal
Dutta, U., Banerjee, P., Ghosh, S., Ghosal, P., Srimany, S. & Mukherjee, S., Nov 2021, In: Religions. 12, 11, 1018.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us
Dutta, U., May 2021, In: Sociology Compass. 15, 5, e12876.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Indigenous Health Organizing at the Margins: Creating Access to Health by Building Health Infrastructure
Dutta, U., Aug 23 2020, In: Health Communication. 35, 10, p. 1177-1189 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Scopus citations
Projects
- 2 Finished
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Asia Mediated: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Innovation at Arizona State University
Rush, J., Brown, C., Codell, J., Schober, J., Henn, A., Chhabra, D., Chen, H., Cheong, P., Dutta, U., Cho, S., Kwon, K. H., Chadha, M. & Hedberg, W.
US Department of Education (DOEd)
10/1/16 → 9/30/19
Project: Research project
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Feed the Future Egypt Food Security and Agribusiness
Fowler, J., Manfredo, M., Dutta, U. & Englin, J.
US Agency for International Development (USAID)
7/20/15 → 3/4/20
Project: Research project