Mandeep Sidhu

My doctoral research engages critical Muslim studies in South Asia, critical race scholarship, critical social movement studies, scholarship on the coloniality of postcolonial nation-states and the concept-practices of prefiguration and refusal to think the anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) conjuncture in india.

Centring a struggle as method approach, I trace the cunning of the Islamophobic indian racial state order in left-liberal politics that is otherwise deemed prefigurative. Instead, I argue that the prefigurative potentiality of the anti-CAA struggle lies in Muslim protestors' refusals of the terms and telos of the indian racial state b/order.

My research is funded by the AHRC Techne DTP.

Teaching: PO602 Activism and Social Change (2025/6); PO604 Race and International Relations (2024/5); HD423 Artist, Designer, Prosumer (2022/3)

Module design: PO604 Race and International Relations (2024/5)