Reframing the Indigenous Rights Movement in North-East India – Thangkhansuan Gualnam
Thangkhansuan Gualnam North-east India is a region rife with preconceived assumptions. Some hold. Others need critical re-examining. The question of…
Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan by Matthew S. Hull (2012): A Review by Nikhit Kumar Agrawal
Matthew Hull’s book, Government of Paper, is a result of an ethnographic work conducted in the government offices of the Islamabad Capital…
Domestic Workers: Essential, Vulnerable and Marginalized in the Pandemic – Priyanjali Mitra
Image source: Al Jazeera: File: AP/Aijaz Rahi On 24th March 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a sweeping nationwide lockdown to…
Living with Tigers: Ethnographic Stories from the Sundarbans: An interview with Amites Mukhopadhyay and Annu Jalais
The super cyclonic storm Amphan had rocked West Bengal, particularly Sundarbans in May 2020. In that light, we bring to…
Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s Ideas on Democracy – Pallavi Ghosh
“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people are yet…
What does the Popularity of Cooking Channels tell us about Class and Gender in India? – Rituparna Patgiri
‘Your mango peda (a sweet) looks delicious. Please share the recipe’, said my friend. I told her that she should…
Food, Culture and Society in India: An Interview with Kiranmayi Bhushi
We interviewed Dr. Kiranmayi Bhushi who teaches Sociology at the Indira Gandhi National Open University. She is also the author of…
Climate Justice A Man-Made Problem with a Feminist Solution by Mary Robinson with Caitriona Palmer (Contributor) (2018): A Review by Ushoshi Bandyopadhyay
Throughout this book,Mary Robinson has shed light on the fact that climate crisis is a crisis of humanity. She accounts…
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (2015): A Review by Sampurna Das
Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World is a rich multispecies ethnography, traces the growth of a…
Universities as Political Spaces: Caste, Class and Resistance: An interview with Gaurav J. Pathania
Doing Sociology interviewed Dr. Gaurav J. Pathania who is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University,…