Between the Toilet and the Field Lies a Story: Gender, Leisure, and Infrastructural Refusal in Rural Uttar Pradesh – Neelima
Introduction: Revisiting the Village, Rethinking the Toilet Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to visit my…
The Art of Otherization: Locating the Infrastructure of Religious Fundamentalism in Sri Lanka – Diptesh Banerjee
At the base of any architectural setup of ethnocracy is the politics of domination. Whatever shape an ethnocracy takes, it…
Cow Dung and the Classroom: Politicisation, Sustainability, and the Symbolic Politics of Higher Education in India – Simran Singh
Introduction The recent controversy at Laxmibai College, University of Delhi, over the use of cow dung as a cooling agent…
Deprivation and Desperation: Reiterating the Plight of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar through Train Journeys – Ritika Rajput
This article is based on my lived experience and several train journeys I undertook between Delhi to Gaya for conducting…
Mobilities, Climates and Infrastructures: An Interview with Malini Sur
Malini Sur is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at Western Sydney University and serves as the President of the Australian…
Mumbai/Bombay: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance and Wellbeing edited by Sujata Patel, D Parthasarathy and George Jose (2022): A Review by Suraj Beri
The unpredictability of its economic transformations, the growth of its real estate markets, the competing jurisdictions of its governing systems,…
Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta by Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (2022): A Review by Sudatta Ghosh
Twentieth-century India, and in this specific context Calcutta, experienced and participated in some of the most crucial political and economic…
A Book Discussion on Streets in Motion: : The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta
Doing Sociology discussed Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay’s on Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta.…
Infrastructures of Injustice: State and Politics in Manipur and Northeast India by Raile Rocky Ziipao (2020): A Review by Haidamteu Zeme N
“Our Land is the only space from where our freedom springs. We are slaves without it”. – Naga Peoples’ Movement…
Issues of Infrastructure, Politics and the State in Manipur: A Conversation with Raile Rocky Ziipao
Raile Rocky Ziipao is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. His published works include…