Prem Kumar Rajaram
Associate Professor
Sociology and Social Anthropology
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Prem Kumar Rajaram is CEU's Open Learning Initiative Unit Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. In his research, Prem Kumar Rajaram is particularly interested in questions of marginality and depoliticization. His research has focused on the government of asylum-seekers, particularly those in detention in Europe and Australia, and on colonial histories of state making. He is particularly interested in the limits of politics, looking at individuals and groups excluded from political participation and seeing what their exclusion says about the nature of the political.
Research Interest
Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Law And Society, Logic of Social Inquiry, Place Making: Critical Approaches to Anthropology.
Publications
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Rajaram PK. Locating political space through time : asylum and excision in Australia. In: Rajaram PK, Grundy-Warr C, editors. Borderscapes : hidden geographies and politics at territory's edge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; 2008. p. 263-82.
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Rajaram PK. Dystopic Geographies of Empire. Biswas S, Nair S, editors. New York: Routledge; 2009.
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Rajaram PK. Thinking the Limits of Political Space. ENACT Consortium; 2009.
