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About Rituparna Patgiri
I am Rituparna Patgiri and I have a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). My PhD thesis explored how mobile theatre of Assam occupies features of a counter-public but is a part of the larger Assamese public culture. It is often seen as an assertion of Assamese identity in the face of increasing globalization. Yet, at the same time, it has adapted itself to the commercial demands of the time by using the latest technologies and content. I am currently in the process of converting my thesis into a book. My larger research interests lie in media, public culture, gender and food.
I am also a co-founder of Doing Sociology (https://doingsociology.org) - an independent, women-led academic blog dedicated towards promoting sociological consciousness. As part of this blog, I have been regularly interviewing scholars and also been part of several book discussions.
Rituparna Patgiri has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the areas of food, media, gender and public. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology. Patgiri can be reached at @Rituparna37 on Twitter.
NBN Episodes hosted by Rituparna:
May 13, 2024
The Limits of Sexuality Education
The Limits of Sexuality Education: Love, Sex, and Adolescent Masculinities in Urban India (Routledge, 2024) explores different strands of thinking abo…
May 8, 2024
Gendered Publics
Gendered Publics: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samiti in Colonial Assam (Oxford UP, 2024) is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive appraisal of th…
May 6, 2024
The Gravity of Hope
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay's book The Gravity of Hope (Crossed Arrows, 2023) is a non-fictional account of women’s lives who sometimes endured, often res…
May 4, 2024
Singular Selves
Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies (Routledge, 2024) edited By Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne examines, for perhaps the first time,…
April 5, 2024
Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods
Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism (Bloomsbury, 2023) critically examines contemporary health and wellnes…
March 23, 2024
Quest for Love in Central Morocco
Following the 2011 wave of revolutions and protests in North Africa and the Middle East, new discussions of individual freedoms emerged in the Morocca…
January 24, 2024
Aromas of Asia
A uniquely powerful marker of ethnic, gender, and class identities, scent can also overwhelm previously constructed boundaries and transform social-se…
December 20, 2023
An Epidemic of Uncertainty
A decade-long study of young adulthood in Malawi demonstrates the impact of widespread HIV status uncertainty, laying bare the sociological implicatio…
December 17, 2023
Migration, Food Security and Development
Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines the role of migration as a livelihood strategy in in…
December 6, 2023
Food Journeys
Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart (Zubaan Books, 2023) is a powerful collection that draws on personal experiences, and the meaning of grief, rage…
November 27, 2023
Performing Memories and Weaving Archives
Usually, discourses on the planetary evolution and the movements of slaves remain restricted within the narratives and scholarships of the Trans-Atlan…
August 22, 2023
City of Men
In South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do m…
August 20, 2023
The World of Sugar
For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and extracting it from plants takes har…
July 21, 2023
Childscape, Mediascape
Children are considered to be a group of special interest by media scholars and advocates, especially because they are seen as a vulnerable group whos…
June 17, 2023
Migrant Academics' Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe
Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe (Open Book Publishers, 2023) consists of narratives of migrant academics from the …
June 14, 2023
They Eat Our Sweat
Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) cor…
June 12, 2023
Feminist Futures of Work
The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusion, equity, and dignity of thos…
June 11, 2023
Doing Theory
We live in times where theory is often understood as irrelevant in the real world. It appears to have no practical results. This has been further comp…
May 30, 2023
A Part Apart
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, he…
May 17, 2023
The Political Durkheim
Matt Dawson's The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies (Routledge, 2023) presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist, inspir…
May 16, 2023
The Public and Their Platforms
As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book The Public and Their Platforms: Public Sociolog…
April 7, 2023
Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture
For hundreds of years consumers and scholars have acknowledged that food is affected by the same rapid shifts in taste and consumption as clothing. Tr…
March 26, 2023
Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries
Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency (Routledge, 2022) forward Assam (and Northeast India) as a speci…
March 22, 2023
Counseling Women
Women’s rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from w…