Redefining University Spaces – Upali Bhattacharya
Universities are meant to be free spaces that catalyse critical and scientific thinking, creating conditions for liberty, equality and fraternity.…
The Middle Class in India: Culture, Politics and Consumption: An Interview with Leela Fernandes
The Doing Sociology team interviewed Prof. Leela Fernandes. She is the Director of the Stanley D. Golub Chair of International…
The Wait for a New Legislation on Lynching – K. S. Vaishnavi
On 30th September 2015, BBC reported the lynching of a 50-year-old man named Mohammed Aklaq in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh.[i] Aklaq…
A Phenomenal World: Orientations, Politics, And Self-Preservation – Sujay Mungekar
Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006) is a remarkable book that delves into the mechanics of the world…
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,…
Caste and Gender, Theory and Experience: An Interview with Cynthia Stephen
The Doing Sociology team interviewed Cynthia Stephen, a thinker and activist who works on the issues of the marginalized. We…
Ambedkar, Ravidassias, Mission Singing & Deras: The Caste Question in Punjab: An Interview with Santosh K. Singh
In our latest interview with academics, we talk to Dr Santosh Singh, Associate Professor at Ambedkar University Delhi. Dr Singh…