.Ankur Datta teaches at the Department of Sociology at South Asian University. His work addresses themes of displacement and dislocation, place-making, history, memory and the politics of victimhood. He has published articles based on his research in journals such as Modern Asian Studies, History and Anthropology, HIMALAYA, International Journal of Migration and Borderland Studies and Contributions to Indian Sociology, and has edited a special issue on victimhood in the Seminar Magazine. He is the author of On Uncertain Ground: Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is interested in the emergence of languages of victimhood. He currently teaches courses in Anthropological theory, Violence, Being and has taught courses in Migration studies, Advanced Social Theory, Research Methods and Nationalism in the past. He has been a Visiting Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies & was a recipient of a TATA-1947 Partition Archive Grant.
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Interviews on Victimhood with Michael Rothberg, Sanjay Srivastava and Sanjay Kak (2020) Seminar #727