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About Rituparna Patgiri
Rituparna Patgiri is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. atgiri is passionate about making academic knowledge accessible to the public and is one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology – an academic blog dedicated to promoting sociological consciousness among young students. She is also serving as the Associate Editor of the South Asian Region in Society – a journal published by Springer Nature that explores the latest scholarship on the central questions of contemporary society.NBN Episodes hosted by Rituparna:
January 2, 2026
The Political Durkheim
Matt Dawson's The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies (Routledge, 2023) presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist, inspir…
March 31, 2025
Experimental Times
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India (U California Press, 2024) is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Be…
March 2, 2025
The Presence of Elephants
How to dwell in a forest alongside giants, avoid disturbing a living god, assist an animal with their manners, and help an elephant cross the road. Th…
October 29, 2024
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict th…
October 25, 2024
Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850–1980)
Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India: Tracing the Pre-history of Green and White Revolutions (Springer 2024) traces the conto…
June 26, 2024
Tribe-Class Linkages
Tribe-Class Linkages: The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura (Routledge, 2023) is a historical study of the development of agra…
May 13, 2024
The Limits of Sexuality Education
The Limits of Sexuality Education: Love, Sex, and Adolescent Masculinities in Urban India (Routledge, 2024) explores different strands of thinking abo…
May 8, 2024
Gendered Publics
Gendered Publics: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samiti in Colonial Assam (Oxford UP, 2024) is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive appraisal of th…
May 6, 2024
The Gravity of Hope
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay's book The Gravity of Hope (Crossed Arrows, 2023) is a non-fictional account of women’s lives who sometimes endured, often res…
May 4, 2024
Singular Selves
Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies (Routledge, 2024) edited By Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne examines, for perhaps the first time,…
April 5, 2024
Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods
Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism (Bloomsbury, 2023) critically examines contemporary health and wellnes…
March 23, 2024
Quest for Love in Central Morocco
Following the 2011 wave of revolutions and protests in North Africa and the Middle East, new discussions of individual freedoms emerged in the Morocca…
January 24, 2024
Aromas of Asia
A uniquely powerful marker of ethnic, gender, and class identities, scent can also overwhelm previously constructed boundaries and transform social-se…
December 20, 2023
An Epidemic of Uncertainty
A decade-long study of young adulthood in Malawi demonstrates the impact of widespread HIV status uncertainty, laying bare the sociological implicatio…
December 17, 2023
Migration, Food Security and Development
Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines the role of migration as a livelihood strategy in in…
December 6, 2023
Food Journeys
Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart (Zubaan Books, 2023) is a powerful collection that draws on personal experiences, and the meaning of grief, rage…
November 27, 2023
Performing Memories and Weaving Archives
Usually, discourses on the planetary evolution and the movements of slaves remain restricted within the narratives and scholarships of the Trans-Atlan…
August 22, 2023
City of Men
In South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do m…
August 20, 2023
The World of Sugar
For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and extracting it from plants takes har…
July 21, 2023
Childscape, Mediascape
Children are considered to be a group of special interest by media scholars and advocates, especially because they are seen as a vulnerable group whos…
June 17, 2023
Migrant Academics' Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe
Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe (Open Book Publishers, 2023) consists of narratives of migrant academics from the …
June 14, 2023
They Eat Our Sweat
Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) cor…
June 12, 2023
Feminist Futures of Work
The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusion, equity, and dignity of thos…
June 11, 2023
Doing Theory
We live in times where theory is often understood as irrelevant in the real world. It appears to have no practical results. This has been further comp…