Diti Bhattacharya

Dr Diti Bhattacharya is a leader within human geography with a focus on the study of leisure studies, migration, and sporting cultures.  Her research interests include fitness cultures, sporting geographies, migration, heritage and mobilities. She is currently investigating the ways in which sporting practices and fitness cultures can be used as a social conduit through which marginalised communities experience a sense of belonging and community in Southeast Queensland. Diti is recognised for her interdisciplinary research on women, physical cultures, migration and belonging. Her research has advanced novel theoretical and conceptual frameworks for addressing new challenges arising from the increased attention on migrant women, intersectionality, belonging and leisure activities. Trained as a human geographer Diti specialises post human critical feminist theories, non-representational theory, mobilities and affect and in her work. Her work aims to bring a fresh and intersectional lens on the development of critical postfeminist analysis in the fields of leisure studies, migration and mobilities, specifically within the Australian context. Diti’s research has been published in top-ranking academic journals, including Australian Geographer, Social and Cultural Geography, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Annals of Leisure Research.