N Puwar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 265903 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | N Puwar |
| NOMBRES | N |
| APELLIDO | Puwar |
| FIRMA | PUWAR N |
| AFILIACIONES | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1652-5069 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 327 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Space invading
It is a gift to write this article as an opening piece to a twentieth anniversary Special Issue for the book Space Invaders (2004), with twenty pieces in the collection, initiated with generosity by Jo Littler and Anamik Saha, two of the co-editors of the European Journal of Cultural Studies , following a conference on Re-Visiting Space Invaders in 2022. The article offers an expanded spatial practice, with space invaders as a mode of analysis as…
Space invaders
In July 2022, the Centre for the Study of Gender and Sexuality of the City University of London organized a seminar to celebrate the 18th anniversary of Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place. Following on from the rich discussion it generated, we organized an interview-conversation with the author, Nirmal Puwar, to contextualize the book in light of contemporary, seemingly more diverse – but also increasingly aggressive and exclusi…
Space Invaders [Audio podcast episode]
Though she was a life-long Liverpool FC fan, Doreen Massey felt like a “space invader” whenever she attended matches, as she’d often be one of the few women on football terraces. Inspired by Massey’s usage of the term, sociologist Nirmal Puwar developed it into a sociological concept to understand “what happens when women and racialized minorities take up ‘privileged’ positions which have not been ‘reserved’ for them”. In this episode we tackle s…
Carrying as Method
This article unpacks the notion of 'carrying' as an embodied set of influences that bear upon our research practices and journeys. It is widely recognised that we acquire and carry a body of books as intellectual companionship. It is not however readily acknowledged how we as researchers carry sounds, aesthetics, traumas and obsessions, which stay with us and take time to appear before us, as methodological projects within our grasp. Researchers …
Puzzlement of a déjà vu
The act of decentring established Euro-North American sites and flows of knowledge as longstanding geopolitical anchors of epistemological authority presents déjà vu scenarios, involved in centre-staging processes. The very position of being a messenger from the 'North' of knowledge and theory from the 'South' can reproduce the same patterns the undertaking seeks to unsettle. The context in which academic performativity is shaped is integral to b…
Recalling ‘The Scent of Memory’
Mediations on Making Aaj Kaal
This article excavates a discussion on the mediations that informed the making of the film Aaj Kaal by Asian elders, in a project directed by Avtar Brah and coordinated by Jasbir Panesar with the film trainer Vipin Kumar. It brings this largely unknown and inventive film to the foreground of current developments in participative media research practices. The discussion explores the coming together of the ethnographic imagination and performative …
Curating Sociology
Building on the range of methods available to the roaming sociological imagination, curating sociology is concerned with instituting 'live' public encounters. Contending that there are practices in the history of sociology that can be considered instances of curating sociology, this article makes a case for harnessing these to inventive research processes today. The discussion in this article draws attention to recent developments in curating bef…
A Manifesto for Live Methods
In this manifesto for live methods the key arguments of the volume are summarized in eleven propositions. We offer eleven provocations to highlight potential new capacities for how we do sociology. The argument for a more artful and crafty approach to sociological research embraces new technological opportunities while expanding the attentiveness of researchers. We identify a set of practices available to us as sociologists from the heterodox his…
Noise of the Past
This article layers current ways of contesting the linkage of war, memory, and nation making through post-colonial bodies and ambivalences of allegiance. It senses creative productive possibilities for inviting a different occupation of space, one that allows for an altered imagination of how we hear and experience hitherto erased pasts, in the context of the move to encounter difference from within post-imperial nations today. Working from the N…
The Archi-texture of Parliament
How does one approach a study of the archi-textures of parliamentary spaces? How do the walls, floors, doors, grilles, sculptures, murals and glass sensate legitimate parliamentary rites, rituals and performances? How do they also provide researchers with opportunities for telling altered iterations of how parliamentary space has both contained and been taken apart? If the buildings and its textures are embedded with iconography and haptic archit…
Introduction to Open Space
You and Me Do Not Start Here
Bourdieu, postkolonial. Anmerkungen zu einem Oxymoron
Architectures of memory
This article moves through the tempo of visual and aural inventories that float in and out of the making of a film‐based project within a post‐war, post‐colonial landscape. Seeking a set of conversations that offer clues to the inhabitation and production of public spheres within the zone of cinemas, the article considers the creative process at play in the writing of these iterative histories of the very ways in which cities are imagined, lost a…
Sensing a Post-Colonial Bourdieu
Estudios postcoloniales
Lejos de manifestar el enésimo síntoma de una era privada de la imaginación suficiente como para dotarse de nombres propios, lo postcolonial marca un tiempo de transición en el que lo antiguo permanece todavía entre nosotros, constituyendo un presente que aún no ha encontrado su forma paradigmática. En este sentido, lo postcolonial señala el fin de una época, la de los grandes imperios coloniales, seguida de la independencia del dominio colonial …
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue addresses the production of intimacy in the labour of research. It explores the sensory, emotional and affective relations which form an integral, if often invisible, part of the process through which researchers engage with, produce, understand and translate `research'. The article argues that these processes inform the making of knowledge, shape power relations and enable or constrain the practical negotia…
Social Cinema Scenes
This article centers the methodological need to study both (a) social scenes and (b) social cinema scenes to elucidate a much more complicated sense for understanding how cities and space are inhabited, produced, and invented. Using a practice based method of research, it utilizes aural and visual methods to revisit how we approach and conceptualize postwar lives in the United Kingdom, beyond the limits of an either—or analysis of celebration or …
Architectures de la mémoire
Cet article adopte le rythme des répertoires d'images et de sons qui accompagnent la réalisation d'un film consacré aux espaces publics dans un paysage d'après-guerre et postcolonial. À la recherche de conversations qui offrent des indices de l'habitation et la production d'espaces publics dans un quartier de cinémas, l'article examine le processus créatif qui se joue dans l'écriture de ces histoires calquées sur la manière même dont les villes s…
Italian Feminism
Preface to a Selection of the Celebration Speeches
This section brings you the speeches delivered in celebration and reflection of 25 years of being A journal and a collective at the Brunei Gallery on the evening of 17 June 2005. The panel respectively spoke of the past, present and future. It was Chaired by the longest serving member, Dot Griffiths, who has been with the Feminist Review Collective from the start. She has put down some of the thoughts that informed her impromptu charming and ente…
The Future of Feminist Review and Feminisms
Thinking About Making a Difference
This article works across disciplines: politics, geography and social and cultural theory. Issues of space and body are brought to bear on how we think about the question ‘making a difference’. By considering difference in terms of the socio-spatial impact of the presence of hitherto socially excluded groups, such as women and racialised minorities, the gendered and racialised nature of the body politic and most specifically its ‘elite’ positions…
An Introduction to the Issue from the Feminist Review Collective
A Manifesto for Live Methods
In this manifesto for live methods the key arguments of the volume are summarized in eleven propositions. We offer eleven provocations to highlight potential new capacities for how we do sociology. The argument for a more artful and crafty approach to sociological research embraces new technological opportunities while expanding the attentiveness of researchers. We identify a set of practices available to us as sociologists from the heterodox his…
Thinking About Making a Difference
This article works across disciplines: politics, geography and social and cultural theory. Issues of space and body are brought to bear on how we think about the question ‘making a difference’. By considering difference in terms of the socio-spatial impact of the presence of hitherto socially excluded groups, such as women and racialised minorities, the gendered and racialised nature of the body politic and most specifically its ‘elite’ positions…
The Racialised Somatic Norm and the Senior Civil Service
One of the central ways in which institutional racism is perpetuated is through the designation of the somatic norm. However, although the classed and gendered nature of the somatic norm underlying somataphobic representations of the universal `individual' have been both theoretically and substantially explored, the racial character of this embodied being has received scant attention. This paper introduces race to the wider debates on the embodie…
Curating Sociology
Building on the range of methods available to the roaming sociological imagination, curating sociology is concerned with instituting 'live' public encounters. Contending that there are practices in the history of sociology that can be considered instances of curating sociology, this article makes a case for harnessing these to inventive research processes today. The discussion in this article draws attention to recent developments in curating bef…
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue addresses the production of intimacy in the labour of research. It explores the sensory, emotional and affective relations which form an integral, if often invisible, part of the process through which researchers engage with, produce, understand and translate `research'. The article argues that these processes inform the making of knowledge, shape power relations and enable or constrain the practical negotia…
Carrying as Method
This article unpacks the notion of 'carrying' as an embodied set of influences that bear upon our research practices and journeys. It is widely recognised that we acquire and carry a body of books as intellectual companionship. It is not however readily acknowledged how we as researchers carry sounds, aesthetics, traumas and obsessions, which stay with us and take time to appear before us, as methodological projects within our grasp. Researchers …
Puzzlement of a déjà vu
The act of decentring established Euro-North American sites and flows of knowledge as longstanding geopolitical anchors of epistemological authority presents déjà vu scenarios, involved in centre-staging processes. The very position of being a messenger from the 'North' of knowledge and theory from the 'South' can reproduce the same patterns the undertaking seeks to unsettle. The context in which academic performativity is shaped is integral to b…
Sensing a Post-Colonial Bourdieu
The Archi-texture of Parliament
How does one approach a study of the archi-textures of parliamentary spaces? How do the walls, floors, doors, grilles, sculptures, murals and glass sensate legitimate parliamentary rites, rituals and performances? How do they also provide researchers with opportunities for telling altered iterations of how parliamentary space has both contained and been taken apart? If the buildings and its textures are embedded with iconography and haptic archit…
Reflections on Interviewing Women MPs
This paper reflects on the recent experience of interviewing women MPs. The research process is analyzed in terms of the micro-politics of the relationship between the researcher and the researched. Relevant methodological debates from two areas of sociology which are rarely brought together have been incorporated. Elite Studies and Gender Studies. Both of these fields have discussed the politics of space within the process of interviewing. Howev…
Social Cinema Scenes
This article centers the methodological need to study both (a) social scenes and (b) social cinema scenes to elucidate a much more complicated sense for understanding how cities and space are inhabited, produced, and invented. Using a practice based method of research, it utilizes aural and visual methods to revisit how we approach and conceptualize postwar lives in the United Kingdom, beyond the limits of an either—or analysis of celebration or …
Mediations on Making Aaj Kaal
This article excavates a discussion on the mediations that informed the making of the film Aaj Kaal by Asian elders, in a project directed by Avtar Brah and coordinated by Jasbir Panesar with the film trainer Vipin Kumar. It brings this largely unknown and inventive film to the foreground of current developments in participative media research practices. The discussion explores the coming together of the ethnographic imagination and performative …
Noise of the Past
This article layers current ways of contesting the linkage of war, memory, and nation making through post-colonial bodies and ambivalences of allegiance. It senses creative productive possibilities for inviting a different occupation of space, one that allows for an altered imagination of how we hear and experience hitherto erased pasts, in the context of the move to encounter difference from within post-imperial nations today. Working from the N…
Making Space for South Asian Women
Italian Feminism
Space invaders
In July 2022, the Centre for the Study of Gender and Sexuality of the City University of London organized a seminar to celebrate the 18th anniversary of Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place. Following on from the rich discussion it generated, we organized an interview-conversation with the author, Nirmal Puwar, to contextualize the book in light of contemporary, seemingly more diverse – but also increasingly aggressive and exclusi…
Recalling ‘The Scent of Memory’
Exhibiting Spectacle and Memory
This article offers a way to do the work of memory work and migration with, so to speak, the clothes in our mothers trunks, in full awareness of the analytical traps of cultural diversity, anthropological spectacle, exhibitory objectification and the circulatory moves of commodified exoticism
Interview with Carole Pateman
Reflections on Interviewing Women MPs
This paper reflects on the recent experience of interviewing women MPs. The research process is analyzed in terms of the micro-politics of the relationship between the researcher and the researched. Relevant methodological debates from two areas of sociology which are rarely brought together have been incorporated. Elite Studies and Gender Studies. Both of these fields have discussed the politics of space within the process of interviewing. Howev…
Making Space for South Asian Women
Books Reviewed
The Racialised Somatic Norm and the Senior Civil Service
One of the central ways in which institutional racism is perpetuated is through the designation of the somatic norm. However, although the classed and gendered nature of the somatic norm underlying somataphobic representations of the universal `individual' have been both theoretically and substantially explored, the racial character of this embodied being has received scant attention. This paper introduces race to the wider debates on the embodie…
Multicultural Fashion… Stirrings of Another Sense of Aesthetics and Memory
This paper looks at the place of items long associated with the bodies of South Asian women in mainstream fashion. First, there will be a profiling of some of the scenes where bindhies, mendhies and related scents and sounds are donned and adored by white bodies. By participating in conversations with South Asian women in Britain in the second part of the article, the author is able to discuss some of the stirrings raised by the recent legitimiza…
A Review of ‘Stitched Up’
The exhibition 'Stitched Up' at the Gallery g Museum, Royal Pump Rooms (Leamington Spa, 2002) on the politics of fashion introduces itself by stating 'Fashion can be fun and funky, but increasingly fashion designers, consumers and artists are questioning the ethics of the rag trade' and interrogating 'aspects of the fashion industry, from design to production in the home and factory, marketing and retailing'. A critical dialogue with the exhibiti…
Interview with Carole Pateman
Fashion and Beauty
'Ordinary People Come Through Here': Locating the Beauty Salon in Women's Lives Paula Black Classy Lingerie Merl Storr Trousers and Tiaras: Audrey Hepburn, a Woman's Star Rachel Moseley Multicultural Fashion...Stirrings of Another Sense of Aesthetic and Memory Nirmal Puwar Dialogue Section Indian Beauty Parlours Rita Rupal Production as Participation: A Case Study of Heba: An 'Alternative' Mode of Production in the UK Fashion Industry Juliet Ash …
Exhibiting Spectacle and Memory
This article offers a way to do the work of memory work and migration with, so to speak, the clothes in our mothers trunks, in full awareness of the analytical traps of cultural diversity, anthropological spectacle, exhibitory objectification and the circulatory moves of commodified exoticism
Identities
From quite different vantage points this issue addresses complex understandings of gender identities.Here identities are understood as formed through processes that are provisional, contingent and through which the marks of desire are registered as pleasure, fear and anxiety.As such, the articles point to the importance of the analytical distinction between avowed political (and other) identities, and processes of subjectivity.Myra Hird looks at …
Thinking About Making a Difference
This article works across disciplines: politics, geography and social and cultural theory. Issues of space and body are brought to bear on how we think about the question ‘making a difference’. By considering difference in terms of the socio-spatial impact of the presence of hitherto socially excluded groups, such as women and racialised minorities, the gendered and racialised nature of the body politic and most specifically its ‘elite’ positions…
An Introduction to the Issue from the Feminist Review Collective
Kabhi Ritz, kabhie Palladium
Empirical Interrogations
Preface to a Selection of the Celebration Speeches
This section brings you the speeches delivered in celebration and reflection of 25 years of being A journal and a collective at the Brunei Gallery on the evening of 17 June 2005. The panel respectively spoke of the past, present and future. It was Chaired by the longest serving member, Dot Griffiths, who has been with the Feminist Review Collective from the start. She has put down some of the thoughts that informed her impromptu charming and ente…
The Future of Feminist Review and Feminisms
Social Cinema Scenes
This article centers the methodological need to study both (a) social scenes and (b) social cinema scenes to elucidate a much more complicated sense for understanding how cities and space are inhabited, produced, and invented. Using a practice based method of research, it utilizes aural and visual methods to revisit how we approach and conceptualize postwar lives in the United Kingdom, beyond the limits of an either—or analysis of celebration or …
Architectures de la mémoire
Cet article adopte le rythme des répertoires d'images et de sons qui accompagnent la réalisation d'un film consacré aux espaces publics dans un paysage d'après-guerre et postcolonial. À la recherche de conversations qui offrent des indices de l'habitation et la production d'espaces publics dans un quartier de cinémas, l'article examine le processus créatif qui se joue dans l'écriture de ces histoires calquées sur la manière même dont les villes s…
Italian Feminism
Estudios postcoloniales
Lejos de manifestar el enésimo síntoma de una era privada de la imaginación suficiente como para dotarse de nombres propios, lo postcolonial marca un tiempo de transición en el que lo antiguo permanece todavía entre nosotros, constituyendo un presente que aún no ha encontrado su forma paradigmática. En este sentido, lo postcolonial señala el fin de una época, la de los grandes imperios coloniales, seguida de la independencia del dominio colonial …
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue addresses the production of intimacy in the labour of research. It explores the sensory, emotional and affective relations which form an integral, if often invisible, part of the process through which researchers engage with, produce, understand and translate `research'. The article argues that these processes inform the making of knowledge, shape power relations and enable or constrain the practical negotia…
Bourdieu, postkolonial. Anmerkungen zu einem Oxymoron
Architectures of memory
This article moves through the tempo of visual and aural inventories that float in and out of the making of a film‐based project within a post‐war, post‐colonial landscape. Seeking a set of conversations that offer clues to the inhabitation and production of public spheres within the zone of cinemas, the article considers the creative process at play in the writing of these iterative histories of the very ways in which cities are imagined, lost a…
Sensing a Post-Colonial Bourdieu
The Archi-texture of Parliament
How does one approach a study of the archi-textures of parliamentary spaces? How do the walls, floors, doors, grilles, sculptures, murals and glass sensate legitimate parliamentary rites, rituals and performances? How do they also provide researchers with opportunities for telling altered iterations of how parliamentary space has both contained and been taken apart? If the buildings and its textures are embedded with iconography and haptic archit…
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