Mr. Abhinand Kishore

Abhinand Kishore is a researcher and an artist, desiring to collaborate with various ways of knowing/doing, to understand the beings in the world. He did an MA in International Relations and Political Science from the Central University of Kerala. Currently doing Ph.D. with JRF, under Dr. Mathew A Varghese studying the urbanization of Kochi, by analysing the specific cases of the right to housing, right to land, and right to a liveable place. Rather than the experience of a subject, the research explores the way – how, where, when, and why – different subjects interact, confront, compete, cooperate, struggle, and form relations and networks in their everyday life, amidst the entangled senses, spaces and socials. The research linking the political economy to socio-ecology, trac(k)ing the enmeshed flow of water, people, capital, money, waste and labour, also draws on other ways of experiencing and knowing through smell, sound, drawings, photographs and movies.

After completing the Electronics and Communication engineering degree, he worked in an NGO named Anannia was initiated by a conglomerate of social activists, social workers and other professionals, working majorly among LGBTQ+ communities and marginalised and stigmatised children. As part of the NGO, he spearheaded the digitisation of the first Transgender Socio-economic survey in Kerala 2014-15, compiled and analyzed 4500+ responses for the formulation of the first Transgender Policy of Kerala, 2015 and organised programs like Kerala queer pride 2015, queer film screening and various other programs, reaching out to more people celebrating the diversity of life. He also do a personal project called ‘On body’ incorporating different forms of expressions. I desire to study more of neuroscience and create movies.

MA Dissertation- Dalit Subjectivity and Class struggle

PhD Title- Flows, Socialities and the Critique of Everyday Life: A Study of Urbanisation of Kochi