Nirmal Puwar Explained

Nirmal Puwar is a senior lecturer at the department of Sociology at Goldsmiths University and Co-Director of Methods Lab.^[1] She is a member of the Feminist Review editorial collective since 2000.^[2] Puwar has co-edited 17 Collections, including: Post-colonial Bourdieu; Orientalism and Fashion; Intimacy in Research; Live Methods and, South Asian Women in the Diaspora.^[3]

Puwar has written about and researches postcolonialism; institutions, race and gender & critical methodologies and has written two books; Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place (2004),^[4] in which she argues that that diversity is about perceptions of whiteness rather than how whiteness operates,^[5] and Fashion and Orientalism (2003).^[6] In 2007, she directed the film Coventry Ritz which emphasizes "the haunting remnants of emptied out architecture and unused space."^[7]

External links

• Nirmal Puwar. Staff Page. Goldsmith University
• Twitter

Notes and References

1. News: Nirmal Puwar BA MA PhD. Goldsmiths, University of London. 2018-04-28. en.
2. Puwar. Nirmal. 2009. A Feminist Review roundtable on the (un) certainties of the routes of the collective and the journal. Ex Aequo. 19. 23–32. 0874-5560.
3. Web site: Racism in the Body of the Academy: Statues and Classrooms TORCH. torch.ox.ac.uk. en. 2018-04-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20180429091947/http://torch.ox.ac.uk/racism-body-academy-statues-and-classrooms. 2018-04-29. dead.
4. Book: Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place. 2004. 9781859736593. Puwar. Nirmal. Berg Publishers .
5. News: Diversity is a white word. Canas. Tania. ArtsHub Australia. 2017-09-24.
6. Book: Fashion and Orientalism. 2003. research.gold.ac.uk. Puwar, Nirmal, Bhatia, Nandi, Mast, J.. Bloomsbury Academic . 9781859737316. 2017-09-24.
7. Coventry Ritz Cinema [video] darkmatter Journal]. Darkmatter Hub (Beta). en-US. 2018-04-28.