Nirmal Puwar BA MA PhD

Staff details

Position Reader
Department Sociology
Email n.puwar (@gold.ac.uk)
Phone +44 (0)20 7919 7716
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; Jungnickel, Kat and Puwar, Nirmal, eds. 2024. How to do social research with…. London: Goldsmiths Press. ISBN 9781913380427

Back, Les and Puwar, Nirmal, eds. 2013. Live Methods. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4443-3959-8

Book Section

Puwar, Nirmal. 2024. How to do social research with... an exhibition in a university corridor. In: Rebecca Coleman; Katrina Jungnickel and Nirmal Puwar, eds. How to do Social Research With... London: Goldsmiths Press, pp. 111-119. ISBN 9781913380427

Puwar, Nirmal. 2003. Melodramatic Postures and Constructions. In: Nirmal Puwar and Ravi Raghuram, eds. South Asian Women in the Diaspora. Berg, pp. 21-42. ISBN 1859736963

Article

Puwar, Nirmal. 2021. Carrying As Method: Listening to Bodies as Archives. Body & Society, 27(1), pp. 3-26. ISSN 1357-034X

Puwar, Nirmal. 2020. Puzzlement of a déjà vu: Illuminaries of the global South. The Sociological Review, 68(3), pp. 540-556. ISSN 0038-0261

Puwar, Nirmal. 2012. Mediations on Making Aaj Kaal. Feminist Review, 100, pp. 124-141. ISSN 0141-7789

Puwar, Nirmal. 2011. Noise of the Past: Spatial Interruptions of War, Nation, and Memory. The Senses and Society, 6(3), pp. 325-345. ISSN 1745-8927

Puwar, Nirmal. 2010. The Archi-texture of Parliament: Flaneur as Method in Westminster. The Journal of Legislative Studies, 16(3), pp. 298-312. ISSN 1357-2334

Puwar, Nirmal. 2009. Sensing a post-colonial Bourdieu: an introduction. The Sociological Review, 57(3), pp. 371-384. ISSN 0038-0261

Fraser, Mariam and Puwar, Nirmal. 2008. Introduction: Intimacy in Research. History of the Human Sciences, 21(4), pp. 1-16. ISSN 1461720X

Puwar, Nirmal. 2008. "Postcolonial Bourdieu": Notes on the Oxymoron. transversal,

Puwar, Nirmal. 2007. Social Cinema Scenes. Space and Culture, 10(2), pp. 253-270. ISSN 12063312

Puwar, Nirmal. 2004. Thinking About Making a Difference. The British Journal Of Politics And International Relations, 6(1), pp. 65-80. ISSN 1467856X

Puwar, Nirmal. 2004. Speaking Positions in Global Politics. Multitudes Web, ISSN 1777-5841

Puwar, Nirmal. 2003. Dorinne Kondo in Interview with Nirmal Puwar. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 7(3-4), pp. 253-256. ISSN 1751-7419

Puwar, Nirmal. 2003. Exhibiting Spectacle and Memory. Fashion Theory:The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 7(3-4), pp. 257-274. ISSN 17517419

Puwar, Nirmal. 2002. Multicultural fashion... stirrings of another sense of aesthetics and memory. Feminist Review, 71(1), pp. 63-87. ISSN 0141-7789

Puwar, Nirmal. 2001. The Racialised Somatic Norm and the Senior Civil Service. Sociology, 35(3), pp. 651-670. ISSN 14698684

Puwar, Nirmal. 1997. Reflections on Interviewing Women MPs. Sociological Research Online, 2(1), ISSN 13607804

Conference or Workshop Item

Ahmed, Sara; Anim-Addo, Joan; Bernard, Claudia A.; Mirza, Heidi; Puwar, Nirmal and Thobani, Sunera. 2013. 'Screening and Panel Discussion on the work of Angela Davis, Free Angela and Other Political Prisoners'. In: Centre for Feminist Research Screening and Panel Discussion. Goldsmiths, Universirty of London, United Kingdom.

Digital

Gunaratnam, Yasmin; Puwar, Nirmal; Johnson, Mark; Clisby, Suzanne; McGuirk, Siobhan; Turner, James; Choudhury, Tanzina; Ashraful, Ovi; Fernandez, Marta; Gill, Andréa; Souza, Isabela; Arámburo, Pável Valenzuela; Morales, Deyanira Clériga; Pereyra, Aldo Jorge Ledón; Garcia, J Neil; Guevara, Nerisa del Carmen; Jacobo, Jaya; Ramil, Kate Alyzon; Clarke, Yaliwe; Matchett, Sara; Mbasalaki, Phoebe Kisubi and Hahn, Catherine. 2022. Experiments in Cultures of Equality: A GlobalGRACE online course.

McGuirk, Siobhan; Johnson, Mark; Clisby, Suzanne; Puwar, Nirmal; Gunaratnam, Yasmin; Turner, James; Choudhury, Tanzina; Ashraful, Ovi; Fernandez, Marta; Gill, Andréa; Souza, Isabela; Arámburo, Pável Valenzuela; Morales, Deyanira Clériga; Pereyra, Aldo Jorge Ledón; Garcia, J Neil; Guevara, Nerisa del Carmen; Jacobo, Jaya; Ramil, Kate Alyzon; Clarke, Yaliwe; Matchett, Sara; Mbasalaki, Phoebe Kisubi and Hahn, Catherine. 2022. Re/Locating Cultures of Equality.

Show/Exhibition

McGuirk, Siobhan and Puwar, Nirmal. 2018. Exchanging Cultures of Equality. In: "Exchanging Cultures of Equality", Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom, May – June 2018.

Other

Mani, Lata and Puwar, Nirmal. 2014. Screening of film De Sidere 7. Goldsmiths, University of London..

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