Sociology of Sports: Exploring the Nexus of Race, Class, and Gender – Deepak Rathour
Sport is a pervasive social institution in nearly every society around the world. To ignore sport is to overlook a…
Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India by James Staples (2020): A Review by Bidisha Medhi
Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India by James Staples (published by University of…
Digital Devotion: No Ifs Or Buts? – Himasweeta Sarma
Introduction In today’s fast-paced world, survival constitutes not just bread and butter but also technology. The Internet’s launch on January…
Turup: A Tapestry of Identity, Power, and Resistance – Jahnvi Dwivedi
The cinematic immersion in Turup (2017) is a testament to the collaborative efforts of Ektara Collective. It is made by…
Middle-Class Apartments – Whatsapp Groups, Religion, and Class Politics – Sahithi Sanaka
These observations come from living in a middle-class apartment as a member of the “ladies of the apartment” WhatsApp group.…
Social Mobility, Identities and Ethnography: An Interview with Divya Vaid
Divya Vaid is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has an MSc and…
In Search of the Nation: Reading Culinary Texts from Colonial Bengal – Rageshree Bhattacharyya
Introduction The nationalist struggle for India’s independence was not just a mere political one. Rather it was an iconoclastic project,…
Women in ‘New’ Nepal: Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries by Seika Sato (2023): A Review by Avantika Jhujhunwala
Seika Sato’s book Women in ‘New’ Nepal: Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries, published by Routledge in…
Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure: Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-class British Indian Families by Utsa Mukherjee (2023): A Review by Aatina Nasir Malik
Utsa Mukherjee’s Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure: Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-class British Indian Families (published by…
A Working Class State of Mind by Colin Burnett (2021): A Review by Aashish Xaxa
For the most part, working-class novels have been written in ‘proper’ English. Even the classic Dickens stories, all of which…