Publications

This paper narrates the key events and factors that contributed to the development of Ummeed- A Ray of Hope, a short film written, shot and produced by students from the ‘core sample’ as a part of an International Film Festival on films made by minors/teens. This paper is part of the researcher’s doctoral research project “The “Self” in Classrooms: Exploring Identities through Narratives from Teaching of Social Sciences”, which analyses narratives and discourse from unconstrained socio-political discussions.

The paper shows how one can surpass “the front” (Goffman, 1956) of classroom and pedagogical spaces through intersectional positionality and facilitating enduring learning experiences for students and how one can understand individuals’ social identity through curricular experiences (Wortham, 2006) using a certain “pedagogical intent” (Van Manen, 1991), intersectional contextualised methodology (Farooqi, 2020), and democratic pedagogical situations (Apple & Beane, 2006).

Tracking Bengaluru’s dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavals, this edited volume is an outcome of the Speculative Urbanism research project that was carried out over several years at NIAS, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Minnesota. The book is a collection of short essays written to be accessible to a general readership, but undergirded by theoretical insights from sociology, anthropology, urban studies and geography.