Nirmal Puwar BA MA PhD
Postcolonialism; institutions, race and gender & critical methodologies.
For examples,
www.darkmatter101.org/site/2007/03/12/coventry-ritz-cinema/
Methods Lab - Noise of the Past
Co-organiser of the Methods Lab
Professional affiliations
Member of the Feminist Review editorial collective since 2000.
Co-Convenor of the BSA Race Forum
Programme Associate of the Leverhulme Funded study of Gendered Ceremony & Ritual in Parliament.
Selected publications
Books
Puwar, N (2004) Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place, Oxford: Berg Reviewed by Moira Gatens (Download Moira Gatens' review [pdf])
www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/journal/v87/n1/full/9400370a.html
Edited books and journal
Puwar, N & P.Raghuram (eds.) (2003) South Asian Women in the Diaspora, Oxford: Berg.Puwar, N & N. Bhatia (eds.) (2003) Special Double Issue of the journal Fashion Theory on Orientalism, Vol.7, No.3/4 [translated into Portuguese Brazilian].
Co-editor of 8 issues of Feminist Review.
Articles in refereed journals
Puwar, N & K. Powar (2005) 'Khabi Ritz, Khabie Palladium: South Asian Cinema in Coventry 1940-1980', Wasafiri, Special Issue on Global Cinema.Puwar, N. (2004) 'Speaking Positions in Total Politics', Multitudes, 5th February (Trans. French).
Puwar, N (2004) 'Making a Difference?' British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Special Issue on Women and Politics (eds.) V.Randall and J.Lovenduski, Vol.6, No.1, pp. 65-80.
Puwar, N. (2003) 'Global Speaking Positions' DeriveApprodi, Special Issue on Post-Colonial Theory. (Trans.Italian), No.23.
Puwar, N (2003) 'Exhibiting Fashion As Memory, Not Spectacle' Fashion Theory, Special Double Issue on Orientalism (eds.) N.Puwar and N.Bhatia, Vol.7, No.3/4.
Puwar, N. (2002) 'Multi-Cultural Fashion…stirrings of another sense of aesthetics and memory', Feminist Review, 71.
Puwar, N (2002) Interview with Carole Pateman on 'Women, Politics & Globalisation' Feminist Review 70
Puwar, N. (2000) 'Women in the House (of Commons)', Politics Review 10 (1).
Puwar, N. (1997) 'Reflections on Interviewing Women MPs', Sociological Research Online 2 (1). http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/1/4.html
Chapters in edited books
Puwar, N. (2004) 'The Somatic Norm in Universities: a cat, three monkeys and fish in/out of water' in I.Law, D.Phillips and L. Turney (eds.), Institutional Racism in Higher Education, Stoke on Trent: Trentham Press.Puwar, N. (2003) 'Melodramatic Postures and Constructions' in N. Puwar and P. Raghuram (eds.), South Asian Women and the Diaspora, Oxford: Berg Publishers
Puwar, N (2001) 'Problematising Seeing, Hearing & Telling: Reflections on the Research Enterprise' in Developments in Sociology edited by Haralambos, M, Causeway Press.
Invited international lectures
Puwar, N Keynote Speech at Conference on Racism, Organised by the Mayor of Florence in association with Punto Partenza, Florence, 2-4 June 2005.Puwar, N Keynote Speech on Re-Thinking Diversity for 'Re-Thinking Leadership' Conference at The Centre for Excellence in Leadership, Lancaster University, 28th June 2005.
Puwar, N Out of Place, Casa de Cultura, Milan, 8th March 2005.
Puwar, N Transforming the Space of the City in Anti-War Protests, Milan University, Sociology Department, Methodology Seminar Series, 7th March 2005.
Puwar, N Receiving the Post Colonial Intellectual, Seminar Series on Post Colonialism, European University, Florence, 4th March 2005.
Puwar, N Keynote Speech on Space Invaders, 10th Anniversary of the City of Women Festival, Slovenia, October
Grants & awards
Funded Projects
2007-2009, Noise of the Past. A collaborative public intervention in war and memory, launched in Coventry Cathedral during Remembrance. Team included Sanjay Sharma (Brunel University), Kuldip Powar (Film Director, Poet), Sawarn Singh (poet/war veteran), Nitin Sawhney (composer/musician) & Coventry Peace Festival (AHRC, Principle Investigator). http://www.gold.ac.uk/methods-lab/noise-past/
2008, Post-colonial War Requiem, partnership with the composer Francis Silkstone (Goldsmiths, Music Dept), funded by Goldsmiths Research Office.
2008, For the Record: the social life of Indian Vinyl in Southall, executive producer. Researched and filmed by Kuldip Powar, a joint project with Vanda Foster at Gunnersbury Park & Museum (funded by the MLA).
2007-2009, A Fading Public Space: Coventry Ritz. A consideration of post-war South Asian cinemas in the palimpsest landscape of British cities. Involved the production of a multi-layered collaborative film. (British Academy, Principle Investigator) http://www.gold.ac.uk/methods-lab/projects/#d.en.11267
Publication http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface?content=a910294344&rt=0&format=pdf
2007, Coventry Ritz, film produced with the Metal Dog Media team and
funded by Screen West Midlands and UK Film Council
http://www.metaldogmedia.co.uk/home.html. To view film on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/articles/2006/12/05/video_ritz_feature.shtml
Publication http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/2/253
2007, International Cinema Spheres, funded by London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE)
2006-2007, Working with Private Media Materials in the Public Domain, a series of workshops organised with Val Hill and Shaun Hides (Coventry University) at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. (AHRC, Principle Investigator).
2007 – 2008, Thinking with ‘Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria: testimonies of uprooting’, exhibition installation in the Kingsway Corridor, Goldsmiths and joint seminar series with Les Back (Goldsmiths), Derek Robbins (UEL) and Azzedine Haddour (UCL). (ESRC, Principle Investigator).
Special Issue Sociological Review (2009), 57 (3)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/sore;jsessionid=pabopov0g8a8.alice?
2002-2003, Re-Visioning Britishness, partnership with Herbert Art Gallery & Museum for a cinema based film and exhibition (AHRB funded, Principle Investigator). Co-direction (with Kuldip Powar) of Khabi Ritz Khabie Palladium (2003/20 mins).
Publication: http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/issue43.htm
2001-2002, Beyond Social Contract, ESRC – Seminar Series. Speakers included Carole Pateman (UCLA) and Charles Mills (Chicago). Co-applicant with Dr J. Sanchez-Taylor et al (Warwick)
Publication (Interview with Carole Pateman)
http://palgrave-journals.com/fr/journal/v70/n1/abs/9400018a.html
1994-1997, New & Established Elites. In-depth research, resulting in the publication of Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place (2004, Berg). ESRC funded. (Named/Lead Researcher with Prof. John Scott, Essex University).
Book Publication: http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1-85973-659-9