Nirmal puwar biography

Nirmal Puwar is a Professor in the department of Sociology at Goldsmiths University and Co-Director of Methods Lab. She is a member of the Feminist Review.
Nirmal's research is in space and politics, with respect to bodies, race and gender.
Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths and Co-organiser of the Methods Lab, which initiates a series of project at the intersection.

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Nirmal Puwar, University of Essex

Nirmal Puwar is undertaking her PhD whilst employed as a researcher at the University of Essex in the Department of Sociology, on a project directed by Professor John Scott. The project is funded by the ESRC for a three year period from 1994 to 1997 and it is entitled New and Established Elites in Britain. The focus of the project is on the experiences of women and ethnic minority members as MPs and senior civil servants. Puwar is the sole and main researcher for the project and having done one hundred interviews with the above groups is now in the process of analyzing the transcriptions. Some preliminary analysis of the data will be presented at the BSA Annual Conference in April 1997.

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Nirmal Puwar BA MA PhD

Postcolonialism; institutions, race and gender & critical methodologies

For examples:

Coventry Ritz Cinema

Methods Lab - Noise of the Past

Professional Affiliations

Programme Associate of the Leverhulme Funded study of Gendered Ceremony & Ritual in Parliament.

Recorded Works

A short film-'Coventry Ritz'. Article 1: Architectures of memory: Image, sound, stone. Article 2: Social Cinema Scenes

Teaching

Nirmal teaches on the MA in Gender, Media & Culture and contributes towards undergraduate teaching.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Patel, Tarla; Puwar, Nirmal; Piparia, Daksha and Samra, Jitey. 2021. Racist Tones. Coventry; London: FOUR WRITERS Group; Goldsmiths, University of London. ISBN 9781912298051

Puwar, Nirmal. 2004. Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place. Berg. ISBN 9781859736593

Puwar, Nirmal; Bhatia, Nandi and Mast, J., eds. 2003. Fashion and Orientalism. London: Berg. ISBN 9781859737316

Edited Book

Coleman, Rebecca; Ju

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Nirmal Puwar

Nirmal Puwar is a Professor in the department of Sociology at Goldsmiths University and Co-Director of Methods Lab.^[1] She is a member of the Feminist Review editorial collective since 2000.^[2] Puwar has co-edited 17 Collections, including: Post-colonial Bourdieu; Orientalism and Fashion; Intimacy in Research; Live Methods and, South Asian Women in the Diaspora.^[3]

Puwar has written about and researches postcolonialism; institutions, race and gender & critical methodologies and has written two books; Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place (2004),^[4] in which she argues that that diversity is about perceptions of whiteness rather than how whiteness operates,^[5] and Fashion and Orientalism (2003).^[6] In 2007, she directed the film Coventry Ritz which emphasizes "the haunting remnants of emptied out architecture and unused space."^[7]

References

^"Nirmal Puwar BA MA PhD". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
^Puwar, Nirmal (2009). "A Fem