In Search of a Political Theory of Assembly
Professor Srinivasan’s recently published chapter, in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly that he co-edits, re-centres the place of assembly in political theory.
Publications
Unpacking the gendered nature of police work in India (2024)
This paper examines the gendered aspects of police work in India, focusing on the various roles women undertake in police stations.
E-Governance and Smart Policing in Kerala, India: Towards a Kerala Model of Algorithmic Governance?…
The Kerala government is implementing an e-governance initiative to integrate state services, focusing particularly on the digital transformation of policing.
AI Poses Threats to Education, Ethics and Eureka Moments (2024)
The only way to know if and how to adopt generative AI into our teaching and research is through openly deliberating about its impact on our main values.
The Digitally Mediated Freedom of Assembly (2024)
Discursively repositioning assembly online as the digitally mediated freedom of assembly extends the protection of this right to more people and more practices.
Provocations for Human Rights & Technology (2024)
Breaking from big tech, and by working with technology, we are envisioning data, platforms and intelligent systems aligned with pluralism and solidarity.
Peace and Peacemaking in Sudan and South Sudan (2020)
Opening Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan, this chapter introduces thebook’s key concepts: peace and peacemaking. The contributions in this volume show thatideas of peace…
Publics in Africa in a Digital Age
Across Africa, digital media are providing scholars with a reason and opportunity for revisiting the question, and the analytical lens, of publics with new vigour and less normative…
Executive Summary— Unlawful Killings in Africa
A report prepared by the CGHR research team for the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID-19 and Digital Techno-opportunism across Africa (2022)
In Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital tech solutions mostly failed, yet they nevertheless unleashed new logics of governance and capital accumulation by states and corporations.
Witnessing: Iteration and Social Change (2022)
Thinking of digital witnessing as iteration, or collaborative communication for change, allows us to see how power inflects who and what are— and are not— witnessed.
‘Deal with Me, Here I Stand!’: Presence, Participation and the Equal Protection of Online…
The right of assembly in online spaces raises questions about the nature of presence and participation and faces challenges due to the commercial logics of online spaces.