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.
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
Recorded works
A short film-'Coventry Ritz'. Article 1: Architectures of memory: Image, sound, stone. Article 2: Social Cinema ScenesSelected publications
Fraser, Mariam and Puwar, Nirmal. 2008. Introduction: Intimacy in Research. History of the Human Sciences, 21(4), pp. 1-16. ISSN 1461720X [Article]
Puwar, Nirmal. 2008. "Postcolonial Bourdieu": Notes on the Oxymoron. transversal, [Article]
Puwar, Nirmal. 2007. Social Cinema Scenes. Space and Culture, 10(2), pp. 253-270. ISSN 12063312 [Article]
Puwar, Nirmal. 2004. Thinking About Making a Difference. The British Journal Of Politics And International Relations, 6(1), pp. 65-80. ISSN 1467856X [Article]
Puwar, Nirmal. 2004. Speaking Positions in Global Politics. Multitudes Web, ISSN 1777-5841 [Article]
Puwar, Nirmal. 2004. Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place. Berg. ISBN 9781859736593 [Book]
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 [Article]
Puwar, Nirmal. 2003. Exhibiting Spectacle and Memory. Fashion Theory:The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 7(3-4), pp. 257-274. ISSN 17517419 [Article]
Puwar, Nirmal, Bhatia, Nandi and Mast, J., eds. 2003. Fashion and Orientalism. London: Berg. ISBN 9781859737316 [Book]
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 [Book Section]
Puwar, Nirmal. 2002. Multicultural fashion... stirrings of another sense of aesthetics and memory. Feminist Review, 71(1), pp. 63-87. ISSN 0141-7789 [Article]
Puwar, Nirmal. 2001. The Racialised Somatic Norm and the Senior Civil Service. Sociology, 35(3), pp. 651-670. ISSN 14698684 [Article]
Puwar, Nirmal. 1997. Reflections on Interviewing Women MPs. Sociological Research Online, 2(1), ISSN 13607804 [Article]