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Suraj teaches sociology at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His current interests lie at the intersection of law, hospitality, food, citizenship, body, minorities, violence and the state. He shares an interest and commitment to public sociology and collaborative work. His articles on culture, politics and society in contemporary India appear regularly in various national and international media. I am working on three separate projects involving: a) death/citizenship, b) food/racism/environmental crisis and c) hospitality and citizenship. My forthcoming book unpacks Indian citizenship and the various intersections it produces with nationalism, language, minority, migration, family, civil society, state, art, and law.
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov
Suraj Gogoi and Manoranjan Pegu, Tribal Question and Assamese Identity: Poetics and Politics of Indigeneity (authored book & forthcoming, Routledge 2024)
Gogoi, Suraj., & Sen, Rohini. (forthcoming)“Citizenship and Belonging: NRC Process in Assam” in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Gogoi, Suraj., & Saikia, Parag.J. “Sharing and Exchanging: Understanding Common Grounds in Northeast India”, Asian Ethnicity, 2018, Vol 21 (1) 22-38.
Prakash, Aseem., & Gogoi, Suraj. “What Happened to Caste Based Political Parties?” Exemplar: The Journal of South Asian Studies, 2015 Vol 3(1) 18-27.
Gogoi, Suraj., & Chakma, Shyamal. 2018. The Bru-Mizo Conflict in Mizoram, Economic & Political Weekly, 53 no. 44 (November 3, 2018).
Gogoi, Suraj. “What is New about Contemporary Indian Democracy”: A review of The New Republic: Populism, Power and the Trajectories of Indian Democracy edited by Shray Mehta and Ravi Kumar, Economic and Political Weekly, 2023, Vol LVIII (44) 31-33.
Gogoi, Suraj. (2023) “The Affinity of Citizenship Process and Criminal Law: The Case of NRC” in Pablo Ciocchini and George Radics (Eds.) Criminal Legalities from the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan.
Gogoi, Suraj. (7 April 2022) The Strategy Behind a Political Party’s Rise: A Review of Nalin Mehta’s The New BJP (Westland Books), Live Mint.
Gogoi, Suraj. “Cultural Belonging and Citizenship in Assam” in Oxford Handbook of Himalayan Studies, Ed. Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa. Oxford University Press.
Gogoi, Suraj. “Vernacular Violence: Language Games in Assam” in Evolving Perspectives on English Studies in India: Views from the Northeast and Beyond, Ed. Anindya Syam Choudhury and Banibrata Mahanta. Springer.
for the Project titled Recovering an Absent Past: Through a Conceptual Understanding of the Transition and Lived Experience of the Tai-Khamtis of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. I am the Principal Investigator of the project.
