Women in the Field: Gendered Challenges and Dilemmas of Ethnographic Fieldwork – Ruchika Ranwa
Fieldwork, as a static process, has been questioned in the existing debates on ethnography. Field is often changing, unpredictable and…
Deconstructing Theory: What’s In It? – Shainal Verma
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We…
Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan (2004): A Review by Arman Hasan
Oskar Verkaaik’s Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan (published by Princeton University Press in 2004) is a…
Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader edited by Sunaina Arya and Aakash Singh Rathore (2020): A Review by Sonu Bagri
Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader (published by Routledge in 2020) revisits Indian feminist thought by bringing the category of caste…
People’s Archive of Farmers’ Protests: An Introduction by Shamsher Singh
Shamsher Singh teaches Sociology at FLAME University, Pune. He has academic and research interests around the broad themes of agrarian…
Land, Resources and Nature in North-East India: Ethnographic Explorations with Dolly Kikon
Dolly Kikon is an anthropologist in the Anthropology and Development Studies Program at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses…
‘Normal’ Women in Cinema – Ashlesha Joshi
The world of cinema, like any other, has found itself faced with increased scrutiny in recent times (and rightly so)…
The Violent Domestic: Law, Its Practice, And Strategies Of Survival by Madhurima Mukhopadhyay, Nandini Ghosh, Ruchira Goswami and Supurna Banerjee (2022): A Review by Suman S. Shanker
The central theme of The Violent Domestic: Law, Its Practice, And Strategies of Survival by Madhurima Mukhopadhyay, Nandini Ghosh, Ruchira…
Serving ‘Traditional’ Food on Instagram: Visuality and Aesthetics – Rituparna Patgiri
Like most of us, I spend my free time looking at Instagram reels. During one such Instagram spree, I came…
Refashioning India: Gender, Media and a Transformed Public Discourse by Maitrayee Chaudhuri (2017): A Review by Pratichi Majumdar
Published by Orient Blackswan in 2017, Refashioning India: Gender, Media and a Transformed Public Discourse by Maitrayee Chaudhuri tells the…