Projects

This project consists of a series of studies that are examining how we make sense of caste-based identities and hierarchies. a) Caste identities in negotiating casteism on campus Here, I’m examining interview data where students were participating in a protest about caste-based discrimination.

This project will investigate how Dalit children (adolescents) make sense of their agency for their futures in the context of growing up in urban slums in Hyderabad. The aims to examine the intersections of caste and gender in their experiences of their lives and futures.

This is a continuation from my work on justification and legitimization of violence / military action in the context of Israel and Palestinian relations. Since my MSc dissertation I have examined how leaders and spokespersons for Israel, Hamas, and Palestine construct and orient to the actions of their respective military units in relation to continued violence, resistance, occupation, and peace.

This is an ongoing series of research works that examines how online spaces shape our orientation and negotiation of race and racism. Work here considers how orientations to ‘wokeness’ and progressive posturing on online spaces intertwine with our orientations to and negotiation of race and racism.

Along with Dr. Simon Goodman, I am developing a Handbook of Applied Discursive Psychology. This is an edited text that covers cutting-edge research on prejudice, migration and refuge-seeking, misogyny & sexism, homo and transphobia, political and social movements, conflict, and climate crisis that uses discursive psychology.

Along with Prof Suryapratim Roy at Trinity College Dublin, I am developing a research program on the discursive construction of Hindu Rashtra in South Asia. We are developing an understanding of the construction and legitimation of Hindu Rasthra through a concerted focus on constructions of territory, citizenship, and secularism.