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

Citizenship And Its Discontents

Citizenship has long been valued as a normative public good. But recent years have seen the concept and its practice plunge into crisis. Citizenship and its discontents collectively examines the crisis experienced by citizens and citizenship and the possible ways in which these crises can be addressed.

Reinventing Citizenship

Reclaiming Citizenship For Democratic Renewal

Reclaiming citizenship for democratic renewal collaboratively explores the real and practical ways in which individuals, organisations and collectives of people have resisted the challenge to democracy and built solidarities to overcome the divisions sowed by authoritarian rulers.

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 […]

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

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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
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Publication • 2024

Autocratisation And Social Innovation ↗

Vera Schattan Pereira Coelho, Leonardo Fontes, Beatriz Sanchez

Taylor & Francis

Publication • 2024

Debating Citizenship And Seeking Solidarity ↗

Qudsiya Contractor

Taylor & Francis

Publication • 2024

Reimagining Caring Spaces For Democratic Resistance And Resilience ↗

Özlem Aslan, Pınar Dokumacı

Taylor & Francis

Publication • 2024

Re-Inventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Backsliding ↗

Sagnik Dutta, Indrajit Roy

Taylor & Francis

Colloquium • 2022

Colloquium 6 ↗

Arzoo Oslanloo, Indrajit Roy, Ajay Gudavarthy, Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Bin Xu

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Colloquium • 2023

Colloquium 5 ↗

Sagnik Dutta, Raphael Susewind, Qudsiya Contractor, Ghazala Wahab, Indrajit Roy

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline