Paridhi Gupta

Paridhi Gupta is currently at the Max-Weber-Kolleg as a follow-up fellow from ICAS: MP, Delhi, Normative Conflicts and Transformation group. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the Centre of Women's Studies (CWS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India. Her doctoral work is titled 'Organising Resistance: Feminist Strategies of Protest in Contemporary India'. She also has an MPhil in Women's Studies from CWS and a Master's in Sociology from CSSS, JNU. She is also interested in the intersection of HCI and social movements and in rethinking academic pedagogies from the margins.

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Paridhi Gupta is working on her monograph "Ephemeral Revolutions: A Visual Ethnography of Women's Movement in India". It is a methodological and theoretical intervention into visual ethnographic studies of social movements that focuses on creative qualitative visual methods as a way to uncover deeper narratives about movements. While focusing on ephemera such as posters, banners, and street art, Gupta also proposes graphic ethnography as a way to engage with and analyse social movements. As porous forms of interpretation, visual mechanisms are seen as accessing alternative pathways of recollection and as acts of joy in research. Her aim is to make social movement spaces more accessible and inclusive by demystifying them and strengthening creative research methods.

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

1. *Gupta, Paridhi, Adrian Petterson, Divyani Motla, and Priyank Chandra. 2022. “Ladange, Adange, Jeetange: The Farmers’ Movement and Its Virtual Spaces.” Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2, Article 446 (November 2022), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555547.
2. Gupta, Paridhi. 2021. “Images of Belonging: The Making of Gendered Identity and Community in an Urban Village of Delhi.” City: 25(3-4), 489–496. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2021.1943224.
3. Gupta, Paridhi. 2021. “The Researcher of/in Crisis: Writing Resistances During Pandemic.” Communication, Culture & Critique: 14(2), 365–368. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab025.
4. Gupta, Paridhi. 2020. “Art (s) of Visibility: Resistance and Reclamation of University Spaces by Women Students in Delhi.” Gender, Place & Culture: 27(1), 86–103. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1586652.

Book Chapters and Other Works

1. Peterson, Adrian, Ashique Ali, Paridhi Gupta,…Priyank Chandra. 2023. “Supporting Social Movements Through HCI and Design.” CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Article 364 (April 2023), 1- 5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573812.
2. Gupta, Paridhi. Forthcoming. “Suspecting Oneself: Autoethnographic Study of Surviving Academia as a First-Generation Woman Scholar,” in edited volume (Title:TBA).
3. Gupta, Paridhi. Forthcoming. “Webbed Feminists: Gender and Politics in Indian Webcomics,” in New Gendered Radicalisms at the Margins of the State and Empire, ed. Nandini Dhar, Routledge.
4. Gupta, Paridhi. 2023. “The Contentious Biryani: Rice, Nation, and Dissent,” in Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid, ed. Wren Awry, PM Press.
5. Gupta, Paridhi. 2022. “Inside-Out: The Liminal Researcher of Activisms.” Researcher Activist Network: The Zine, 26 – 28. https://issuu.com/researcheractivistnetwork/docs/ran_zine_issuu_revised.
6. Gupta et al. 2022. Published Roundtable. “Graffiti and Street Art: Queer Feminist Approaches.” Nuart Journal: 3 (2), 126 – 133. https://nuartjournal.com/issue-6-reconnect/

Manuscripts in Preparation

1. Gupta, Paridhi. Ephemeral Revolutions: Visual Ethnography of Women’s Movement in India. Book Manuscript.
2. Gupta, Paridhi…Chakraborty, Dipanjan. “Hashtag Publics: Social Media Strategies and the Indian Farmers’ Protest.”
3. Gupta, Paridhi and Jessica Albrecht. “Envisioning and creating transdisciplinary and international spaces of gender research and feminist praxis: The En-Gender network.”