Lipika Kamra
Title:Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations of South Asia
School or Department: Politics and International Relations
E-mail: l.kamra (@) qmul.ac.uk
Sites of Interest: West Bengal (the Jungle Mahals), Haryana, Delhi
Period of Interest: Contemporary
Research Keywords: The Everyday State; Politics of the Digital; Lived Democracy; Women Voters; Gender and Development; Counterinsurgency
Relevant Publications:
- Williams, P and L. Kamra (2021) No room for dissent: Domesticating WhatsApp, digital private spaces and lived democracy in India. Antipode.
- Kamra, L .(2020) Women’s Collectives and State-led Development in West Bengal: Reimagining Selves during Counterinsurgency, Journal of South Asian Development 15 (3): 352-370.
- Kamra, L. (2020) The Politics of Hopeful Citizenship: Women, Counterinsurgency and the State in Eastern India, Critique of Anthropology.
- Kamra, L. and S. Khatri (2020) The Pandemic in the Periphery of Delhi: Covid-19 and Boundary (Re)Making in Peri-Urban India, City and Society, Covid Dispatches 2020.
- Kamra, L. (2019) The Expanded State in in India: Counterinsurgency and the Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship, Contemporary South Asia 27 (1): 1-14.