Arunima G

G. Arunima is Professor at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and is at present the Director of the Kerala Council for Historical Research, Trivandrum, Kerala. She has researched and published widely on both the historical and the contemporary contexts of India, focusing particularly on cultural, visual and material texts, and rethinking the politics of the contemporary. Thematically, her areas of historical research interest can be divided into the study of family and kinship, both historically and theoretically; different aspects of aesthetics and modernities; visual culture and theory; and religion and faith practices. Her research concerns on different areas of contemporary politics have focused on a range of areas - food cultures, community identities, contemporary histories of violence and resistance, higher education, and different aspects of theorizing gender-based rights. Large parts of these have been presented in both academic and other venues, and some of it has been published. She hopes to bring parts of this together as a book on thinking about the contemporary in India. Currently, she is completing a monograph on the cultural history of Kerala, bringing together questions of gender, caste and power, and ways of rethinking the society. She has recently begun new work on the sensorium and subject formation, which is part of a larger book project on the history of the contemporary in Kerala. Some of her publications include 'The Hijab: Islam, Women and the Politics of Clothing', 'Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial' and 'Postcolonial World: Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa'.