The Anti-intellectual University: Ratings, Rankings and the Need for (feminist) Rage – Tannistha Samanta
The controversy surrounding the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) cannot be overstated. As an apex organization and a public…
Liberalised India, Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals by Anshu Srivastava (2022): A Review by Meghna Roy
The middle classes in India are typically passive in activism, yet election strategies cater to their preferences. Anshu Srivastava’s Liberalised…
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…
Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India by Srila Roy (2022): A Review by Amya Agarwal
The slogans ‘Naari Sashaktikaran’ (women’s empowerment), ‘Beti Bachaao, Beti Padaao’ (save a girlchild, teach a girlchild) and ‘Nari Shakti’(women power)…
Sociological Imagination in Contemporary Geopolitics – Sacnik
Mainstream geopolitics and sociology are strange bedfellows. Global foreign policy or supranational agenda in most of the post-war era was…
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,…
The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society by Bin Xu (2022): A Review by Alex Afouxenidis
Bin Xu’s The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (published by Polity Press in 2022) is a…
A Book Discussion on Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India
Srila Roy is a Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is also a co-editor…
Neoliberalism, Urbanization, and Aspirations in Contemporary India edited by Sujata Patel (2022): A Review by Tania Debnath
Neoliberalism has had a profound impact on societies in the global South. India has been no exception. It has led…