Social Spaces and the Public Sphere

S.Harikrishnan is a postdoctoral researcher at Dublin City University, where he completed his PhD in political science. He holds an MA in International Political Economy from King's College London and an MA in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Hari's research interests include the politics of space, modernity, religion, and political culture. His research has been published in Social History, Brill's Handbook of Hinduism in Europe, and TripleC, and his bylines have appeared on The News Minute, Interactions, Newslaundry, and Kafila. Hari is also a photographer whose works have been exhibited in India, South Africa, and Ireland. He is a founding editor of Ala, a monthly online publication on Kerala. This is his first monograph.