A Book Discussion on Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers
A Book Discussion on Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers Edited by Maya John and…
Why Would I be Married Here? Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India by Reena Kukreja (2022): A Review by Khushbu Sharma
Marriage as an institution has not received adequate attention from the ‘mainstream’ and ‘traditional’ political science. Owing to its relegation…
Sociology of South Asia: Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries edited by Gowri Vijayakumar and Smitha Radhakrishnan (2022): A Review by Mamoon Bhuyan
In the edited volume Sociology of South Asia Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries (published by Springer in 2022), Gowri Vijayakumar and Smitha Radhakrishnan introduce…
Citizen of New Confucianism by Chengzhi Xu (2023): A Review by George Hong Jiang
It is never difficult to imagine a good society, but it is never easy to provide a comprehensive program to…
Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South by Nivedita Menon (2023): A Review by Ipshita Mitra
“We need to recognise that India is a collection of minorities, not a ‘Hindu majority’ country.”[i] My daily night walk…
Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India by Vaibhav Saria (2021): A Review by Ankur Verma
When one attempts to examine the lives lived on the peripheries of society, the perspective largely oscillates between investigating the…
Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx edited by Shilpa Phadke and Nithila Kanagasabai (2023): A Review by Taanya Kapoor
There are some books we read for pleasure. Some, we read to advance our knowledge of the world, others to…
Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon by Syed Farid Alatas and Vineeta Sinha (2017) A Review by Neeraj Naidu
The sociology curriculum of most universities legitimizes, institutionalizes, and reproduces not just the fact that the origin of sociology as…
Politics of Space and Geography in Monyul, Arunachal Pradesh: A Conversation with Swargajyoti Gohain
Swargajyoti Gohain is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana. Her monograph Imagined Geographies in…
Caste: The Lies that Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson (2020): A Review by Krishan Kumar
Caste has been a persistent and defining principle of inequality and discrimination in India. In recent decades this has become…