Polis Project Conversation Series

A Conversation with Mou Banerjee by Suchitra Vijayan

The Polis Project in conversation with lawyer Arjun Singh Sethi about his latest book, ‘American Hate’. The book chronicles the stories of hate crime survivors and those targeted by hate under the Trump administration. #trumpadministration #americanpolitics #thepolisproject #hatecrime #survivorsspeakout #hatecrimesurvivors #survivorstories #hate #hope #americanhate

Siddharth Narrain is a lawyer and legal researcher based in Delhi. He is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. He has worked previously as an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, Governance, and Citizenship, Ambedkar University Delhi; as a legal researcher with the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, and as a journalist...

For this episode, Suchitra Vijayan spoke to Nijah Cunningham Nijah Cunningham is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and an Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY (where he is currently on leave). His teaching and research focus on issues of time, aesthetics, and historiography in 20th century African American and African diasporic l...

India has recently excluded four million people from the National Register of Citizens, thereby deeming them ‘illegal’ and, if their appeals fail, will deny them citizenship. In our specially curated conversation series Suddenly Stateless, The Polis Project takes an in-depth look at the controversial National Register of Citizens through conversations with various scholars, reporters, writers, art...

India has recently excluded four million people from the National Register of Citizens, thereby deeming them ‘illegal’ and, if their appeals fail, will deny them citizenship. In our specially curated conversation series Suddenly Stateless, The Polis Project takes an in-depth look at the controversial National Register of Citizens through conversations with various scholars, reporters, writers, art...

Indian recently declared four million people 'illegal' and stripped them of their citizenship. The Polis Project, in our conversation series Suddenly Stateless will take a closer look at controversial draft citizenship list. The Polis Project's Vasundhara Sirnate spoke to writer and journalist Praveen Donthi. Praveen Donthi is a Staff Writer with The Caravan magazine and has been a journalist for...

This week we spoke to Naomi van Stapele is an assistant professor ‘Anthropology and Development Studies’ at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her current research project looks at the role of non-state security groups in the context of violent religious extremism in Kenya. This project builds on her Ph. D. on 'illegal' work, masculinities and belonging in Nairobi. Her other work focus...

This week we spoke to Dr Anna Feigenbaum, who is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling at Bournemouth University. Her work focuses on communication and social justice. She is a co-author of Protest Camps with Fabian Frenzel and Patrick McCurdy (Zed 2013), author of Tear Gas (Verso 2017) and the forthcoming Data Storytelling Workbook (Routeldge 2020). Her research can be found in a variety of a...

t is not often that one gets to record a podcast that is part of a conversation that has lasted 10 years.   I spoke to Bombay based photographer Ritesh Uttamchandani. He is one of the first contemporary photographers whose work I became familiar with in 2007. For over 10 years we have spoken about photography and representation, ethics and aesthetics story  I asked Ritesh for five things that have...