New Urban Cultures, Consumerism and the Middle Class in India: An Interview with Sanjay Srivastava
Doing Sociology interviewed Prof. Sanjay Srivastava, a British Academy Global Professor at University College London (UCL) and a Professor of…
Visual Fantasies, Food and Women – Pooja Kalita
A few weeks back, my cousin sister and I planned an evening out to have some food together in Guwahati. …
Media, Self and Society – Maitrayee Chaudhuri
The media is a pervasive presence in contemporary everyday life. No aspect of our personal or public experiences is untouched.…
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt (1963): A Review by Sharayu Shejale
The rising popularity and subsequent election of populist leaders worldwide have sparked a conversation both within the academic and the…
Interrogating ‘Home’: Space and Women in India: An Interview with Rukmini Sen
The Doing Sociology blog team spoke to Prof. Rukmini Sen who teaches Sociology in Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi…
Nietzsche and the Oblivion in Kashmir – Wajid Abbas
“There were eternities in which it did not exist, and when it is gone, nothing will have happened.” Friedrich Nietzsche, On…
Fast, Easy And In Cash: Artisan Hardship And Hope In The Global Economy By Rudi Colloredo Mansfeld And Jason Antrosio (2015): A Review By Anushka Sinha
In Fast, Easy and Cash: Artisan Hardship and Hope in The Global Economy (2015), Rudi Colloredo Mansfeld and Jason Antrosio…
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…