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Posts by: Nirmal Puwar

Nirmal Puwar, Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Co-Director of Methods Lab, Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Who gets ‘booked’: Super-Surveillance & the case of Ali Dizaei

by Nirmal Puwar • 23 Feb 10

Could it be that racialized bodies who speak out of turn and engage in the renegade act of whistle blowing, especially risk feeling the cold wrath of administrative controls mangled in the terms of misconduct and professional integrity. Codes of…


The Oral History Interview and its Literary Representations [audio]

by Nirmal Puwar • 29 Jul 09
Journal: Files

Alessandro Portelli teaches American literature at Sapienza University in Rome (where there is an active anomalous wave student movement for education). He has through out his publications and labour of memory work emphasised remembering as an event, active listening, and has taken seriously creative error, invention, myth, even lies – especially when they are widespread.


Short-Circuiting Knowledge Production

by Nirmal Puwar and Sanjay Sharma • 13 May 07
Journal: Files

The interior and exterior space of the writer is blown up in Giancarlo Neri’s 30ft table and chair made from six tons of steel, plated with wood and painted brown.[1] Placed deliberately in Hampstead Heath (London, UK) in 2005,…


Coventry Ritz Cinema [video]

by Nirmal Puwar • 12 Mar 07
Journal: Files

Emphasizing the haunting remnants of emptied out architecture and unused spaces, Coventry Ritz listens to the days when social scenes were produced in the British post-war period by South Asian workers who bought and programmed cinemas. Voices of people remembering…


Creating Collectivities/Doing Transnational Politics – ESF 2004

by Nirmal Puwar • 11 Feb 07

A collection of papers of the Creating Collectivities/Doing Transnational Politics panel presented at the European Social Forum ESF 2004, 16th Oct, Alexander Palace, London. Organised by Feminist Review in collaboration with SCONVEGNO, NextGenderation, BSA Race Forum, and the Torina…