IMAGINING

Political Futures

Bringing together the best minds to collectively reimagine our political future.

Collaborative Initiatives

Key Research Projects

Multinational ethnographic investigations, consortiums, and comparative politics inquiries across Europe, South Asia, and the Global South.

Reinventing Citizenship

Ethnocratic Citizenship

India’s controversial amendments to its citizenship laws occasioned a collaboration between academics, activists, film-makers, poets and public intellectuals to explore the contentions around political belonging in the country and its neighbourhood. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Reimagining citizenship blends social science analysis with insights from arts and humanities research that have […]

Reinventing Citizenship

Sociology of Citizenship

Political theorists, sociologists and anthropologists are increasingly open to the idea that citizenship goes beyond the legal status conferred by states upon individuals in a national political community. Sociology of citizenship focuses on the concrete, empirical ways in which people make meaning of citizenship and the manner in which they forge and imagine membership in […]

Featured Publication

Audacious Hope: A Chronicle Of How Democracy Is Being Saved In India

As the pillars of democracy crumble across the globe, big and small actions of resistance prop up hope. Audacious Hope documents the struggles waged by ordinary citizens against creeping authoritarianism.

Audio Series

India Tomorrow

7 Episodes
Ep 1 Fake news and the battle for information Listen
Ep 2 The politics of Hindu nationalism Listen
Ep 3 Kashmir Listen
Ep 4 Women, gender and love Listen
Knowledge Repository

Latest Outputs & Media

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Talk • 2021

Citizenship In The World’s Largest Ethnocracy ↗

Indrajit Roy

RADIO SOFIA

Film Festival • 2021

Day 3 – Reimagining Citizenship ↗

Karwan e Mohabbat

Film Festival • 2021

Day 2 – Reimagining Citizenship | Session 2 ↗

Karwan e Mohabbat

Film Festival • 2026

Day 2 – Reimagining Citizenship | Session 1 ↗

Karwan e Mohabbat

Film Festival • 2021

Day 1 – Reimagining Citizenship ↗

Karwan e Mohabbat

Spotlight Note • 2021

Federalizing Citizenship: The Kerala State Government’s Protests Against the CAA ↗

K. Ravi Raman

Cambridge University Press