Journal Articles
Dutta, U. (2021). Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us. Sociology Compass. Download Link
Jamil, R. & Dutta, U. (2021). Centering the margins: The precarity of Bangladeshi low-income migrant workers during the time of COVID-19. American Behavioral Scientist. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2020). Indigenous health organizing at the margins: Creating access to health by building health infrastructure. Health Communication. 35(10), 1177-1189. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2020). Protecting sacred-groves: Community-led environmental organizing by Santhals of eastern India. Environmental Communication, 14(1), 36-51. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2019). Addressing contextual challenges in underserved Indigenous spaces of the Global South: In search of an approach based on unlearning, co-learning, and relearning. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, 1-11. Download Link
Dutta, M., Pandi, A.R., Zapata, D. B., Mahtani, R., Falnikar, A,, Tan, N., Thaker. J., Pitaloka, D., Dutta, U., Luk, P. & Sun, K. (2019). Critical health communication method as embodied practice of resistance: Culturally centering structural transformation through struggle for voice. Frontiers in Communication (Health Communication), 4, 67. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2019.00067. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2019). Design engagements at the margins of the Global South: De-centering the “Expert” within me. Sustainability, 11(20), 5675. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2019). Conducting ethnographic research in low literate, economically weak underserved spaces: An introduction to iconic legisigns guided interviewing (ILGI). International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, 1-12. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2019). Gender inequality and rural employment generation program in India. International Journal of Communication & Social Research, 6 (1-2), 52-65. Download Link
Dutta, U., & Dutta. M.J. (2019). Songs of the Bauls: Voices from the margins as transformative infrastructures. Religions, 10(5), 335. Download Link
Dutta, U., Ali, S.R., & Ahmad, N. (2019). Relevance and values of Gandhi’s and Bacha Khan’s moral education in negotiating/addressing situated disparities of South Asia. Education Sciences, 9(2), 108. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2019). Digital preservation of Indigenous culture and narratives from the Global South: In search of an approach. Humanities, 8(2), 68. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2019). Sufi and Bhakti performers and followers at the margins of the Global South: Communication strategies to negotiate situated adversities. Religions, 10(3), 206. Download Link
Dutta, U., Cheong, P. H., & Shuter. R. (2018). Contemporary Gurus in Indian Classrooms: Changing Professorial Authority and Cultural Tensions in Managing Digital Connectivity. International Journal of Communication. 12, 1369–1388. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2018).Negotiating structural absences: Voices of indigenous subalterns of eastern India. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. 47(1), 52-71. Download Link
Shuter, R., Dutta, U., Cheong, P., Chen, Y., & Shuter, J. (2018). Digital Behavior of University Students in India and the US: Cultural Values and Communication Technologies in the Classroom. Western Journal of Communication. 82(2), 160-180. Download Link
Dutta, M., Sastry, S., Dillard, S., Kumar, R., Anaele, A., Collins, W., Roberson, C., Dutta, U., Jones, C., Gillespie, T., & Spinetta, C. (2017). Narratives of Stress in Health Meanings of African Americans in Lake County, Indiana. Health communication, 32(10), 1241-1251. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2016). Adivasi media in India: Relevance and contribution in legitimizing marginalized voices. Intercultural Communication Studies, XXV(3), 213-231. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2016). Designing for the underserved: My reflections. Design for All, 11(12), 13-20. (Invited [non-peer reviewed] publication) Download Link
Dutta, U., & Das, S. (2015). Digital divide at the margins: Co-designing information solution to address needs of indigenous populations of rural India. Communication Design Quarterly, 4(1), 36-48. (Co-authored with a student) Download Link
Dutta, U. (2015). Questioning dominant development practices: Emerging articulations of indigenous subalterns from the margins. Journal of International Communication. 21(2), 169-188. Download Link
Dutta, M. J. & Dutta, U. (2013). Voices of the poor from the margins of Bengal: Structural inequities and health. Qualitative Health Research, 23 (1), 14-25. Download Link
Handbook Chapters
Dutta, U. (In Press). Communication design for social change: Co-creating information solutions in indigenous Global South. In S. Melkote & A. Singhal (Eds.) Handbook of Communication and Development. Elgar Original Reference.
Dutta, U. & Martin, J. N. (2020). Sociological approaches to intercultural communication: Exploring the “silent zones”. In G. Rings & S. Rasinger (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of intercultural communication (pp. 170-186), Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. Download Link
Dutta, U., & Martin, J. N. (2017). Theoretical perspectives on communication and cultures. In L. Chen (Ed.) Intercultural communication. (pp. 45- 66). Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Download Link
Book Chapters
McAllum, K., Mallette, S., Rife, T., & Dutta, U. (In Press). “From Sitting in the Classroom to Facing It”: Becoming and Growing as a Teacher. In B. W. Bach, D. O. Braithwaite & S. Ganesh (Eds.) By Degrees: Resilience, Relationships, and Success in Communication Graduate Studies. Cognella. (Co-authored with a student)
Dutta, U. (2020). Portrayal of Women in Hand-Painted Visual Discourses on the Streets of India. In T. Herdin, M. Faust & G.-M. Chen (Eds.) De-Westernizing Visual Culture: Perspectives from the Global South (pp. 125-142). NOMOS. Download Link
Dutta, U. & Ghosh, M. (2020). The road ahead. In M. Ghosh (Ed.), Design and ecology of the built environment: A focus on the Global South (pp. 563-568). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Download Link
Sen, S., & Dutta, U. (2017). They came by boat: The 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai. In A. M. George, K. Kwansah-Aidoo (Eds.) Culture and crisis communication: Transboundary cases from nonwestern perspectives (pp. 119- 135). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons. Download Link
Dutta, M. J., Dillard, S., Kumar, R., Sastry, S., Jones, C., Anaele, A., Dutta, U., Collins, W., Okoror, T., & Robinson, C. (2013). Relational tensions in academic-community partnerships in the culture-centered approach (CCA): Negotiating communication in creating spaces for voices. In M. J. Dutta & G. Kreps (Eds.) Reducing health disparities: Communication interventions (pp. 457-478). New York: Peter Lange. Download Link
Encyclopedia Entries
Dutta, U. (2019). Development. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2019). Indigenous Rights. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2017). Intercultural Communication Studies in India. The International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication. Download Link
Dutta, U. (2015). Design Problems. The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
Dutta, U. (2015). Social Relations. The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
Dutta, U. (2014). Change Agentry. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intercultural Competence
