Nirmal Puwar

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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

  1. "Nirmal Puwar BA MA PhD". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  2. Puwar, Nirmal (2009). "A Feminist Review roundtable on the (un) certainties of the routes of the collective and the journal". Ex Aequo (19): 23–32. ISSN   0874-5560.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. "Racism in the Body of the Academy: Statues and Classrooms | TORCH". torch.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  4. Puwar, Nirmal (2004). Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place. Berg Publishers. ISBN   9781859736593.
  5. Canas, Tania. "Diversity is a white word". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
  6. Fashion and Orientalism. Puwar, Nirmal, Bhatia, Nandi, Mast, J. Bloomsbury Academic. 2003. ISBN   9781859737316 . Retrieved 2017-09-24.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. "Coventry Ritz Cinema [video] | darkmatter Journal". Darkmatter Hub (Beta). Retrieved 2018-04-28.