What is research? Why do people research? Who benefits from it? And how does it reshape society? These are seemingly…
In A Pedagogy for Liberation (1987), Ira Shor and Paulo Freire criticised the banking model of education, in which learners…
Some two years ago, I wrote an article for Doing Sociology, emphasising the need for a more rigorous critical lens…
Positionality plays a crucial role in research and varies over time. Convincing and demonstrating your social identity as a researcher…
Research and epistemic violence The word ‘research’ is probably one of the dirtiest words in the Indigenous world’s vocabulary, argues…
Recently, I attended a talk by Aditya Pratap Deo, a history professor at St Stephen’s College, Delhi. This session, held…
What do we do when we do anthropology? Ethnography? An almost reflexive answer in today’s time. This growing conflation between…
Riddhi Bhandari is an anthropologist with interests in studying market dynamics, governance, entrepreneurialism, and aspirations, broadly within the framework of…
Recent socio-anthropological studies have made the concept of reflexivity (Wilson & Karliova, 2021) apparent by drawing attention to researchers’ inter-subjective…
I became a science communicator (writer) first and a science communication researcher later. Since I started research, I have increasingly…