Outputs (17)

Decolonising Medical Knowledge - the case of breast cancer and ethnicity in the UK. (2022)
Journal Article

National and global efforts have led to significant improvements in breast health and diagnosis, globally (Lukong, 2017). These achievements, however, are not even. Focusing on the case of breast cancer in the UK, we argue that enduring forms of medi... Read More about Decolonising Medical Knowledge - the case of breast cancer and ethnicity in the UK..

Hospitality and Amnesty: Aravind Adiga’s Narrative of Legal Liminality (2022)
Journal Article

Amnesty continues several of the social justice themes of precarity and subalternity (at times, a violent subaltern agency) of Aravind Adiga’s fiction, and its literary narrative centres again on criminal acts and the moral dilemma the protagonist fa... Read More about Hospitality and Amnesty: Aravind Adiga’s Narrative of Legal Liminality.

Geology uprooted! Decolonising the curriculum for geologists (2022)
Journal Article

Geology is colonial. It has a colonial past and a colonial present. Most of the knowledge that we accept as the modern discipline of geology was founded during the height of the post-1700 European empire's colonial expansion. Knowledge is not neutral... Read More about Geology uprooted! Decolonising the curriculum for geologists.

Wither the plurality of decolonising the curriculum? Safe spaces and identitarian politics in the arts and humanities classroom (2022)
Journal Article

Contributing to the debate on decolonising the curriculum, this reflective article questions: What does a safe space in a decolonised classroom mean? For whom is it safe? And at what cost? Must we redraw the parameters of 'safe'? Prompted by a real-l... Read More about Wither the plurality of decolonising the curriculum? Safe spaces and identitarian politics in the arts and humanities classroom.

Gendered Rage (2022)
Journal Article

This article brings the concept of anger, particularly gendered anger, to bear on a postcolonial and intersectional reading of the apparent ragelessness of working-class Indian women who act as surrogates in the international commercialgestational su... Read More about Gendered Rage.

Precarity as a Mode of Enquiry (2022)
Book Chapter

Twenty-First-Century Antigones: The Postcolonial Woman Shaped by 9/11 in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire (2021)
Journal Article

Set in the early 2010s, the backdrop of Kamila Shamsie's novel Home Fire (2017) is a familiar one to contemporary readers, colored by the rise of farright populist movements and the increase in anti-Muslim initiatives. This article examines how the n... Read More about Twenty-First-Century Antigones: The Postcolonial Woman Shaped by 9/11 in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire.

The precarious lives of India’s Others: The creativity of precarity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2019)
Journal Article

This article traces the agency of Arundhati Roy’s precariat in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. In her novel, Roy focuses on how those in the most precarious of social positions manage to retain a toehold within the system by defiant creativity, lat... Read More about The precarious lives of India’s Others: The creativity of precarity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.

A postcolonial framing of international commercial gestational surrogacy in India: Re-orientalisms and power differentials in Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers (2019)
Journal Article

The branding and marketing of post-millennial India as a global service provider has been relentless. Indian cities have now been de-exoticized from their previous association to elephants, snake-charmers, and slums, and are now being marketed as the... Read More about A postcolonial framing of international commercial gestational surrogacy in India: Re-orientalisms and power differentials in Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers.

Romancing the other: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2019)
Journal Article

Arundhati Roy’s second and latest novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness — which took her ten years to write — is crammed full of misfits and outsiders, the flotsam and jetsam of India’s complex, stratified society. The novel is inhabited by cohorts... Read More about Romancing the other: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.