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Jacobin, 2020
In St. Louis, the demand to defund the police has dovetailed with long-lasting struggles against ... more In St. Louis, the demand to defund the police has dovetailed with long-lasting struggles against cash bail and the abuse of prisoners. The Board of Aldermen’s passing of a bill that promises to start closing the city’s most notorious jail reflects the movement’s strength — but also the need for pressure to ensure that abolitionist demands are not watered down into merely cosmetic reforms.
Teaching Documents by Mihir Sharma
Urban Social Movements (Winter 2019/20), 2019
This is the syllabus of a seminar we (together with Jan Hutta, Geography) offered in the winter t... more This is the syllabus of a seminar we (together with Jan Hutta, Geography) offered in the winter term of 2019/20 at the University of Bayreuth on urban social movements. Using a range of readings from critical human geography, social anthropology, sociology, and philosophy, we examined seven cases of urban social movements in the U.S., in Germany, in India, in Brazil, as well as transnational movements. We examined issues of (insurgent) citizenship, digital activism, urbanity and geography, and modes of assembly and articulation in these movements. Participants in this course co-created zines and offered a presentation based on one social movement.
Newspaper articles by Mihir Sharma
Analyse und Kritik, 2022
In Berlin kämpft ein Netzwerk von BPoC-Organistionen für die Gleichbehandlung von rassifizierten ... more In Berlin kämpft ein Netzwerk von BPoC-Organistionen für die Gleichbehandlung von rassifizierten Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine
Klimareporter, 2021
Seit Wochen wehrt sich die indische Landbevölkerung gegen eine Gesetzesreform zur Liberalisierung... more Seit Wochen wehrt sich die indische Landbevölkerung gegen eine Gesetzesreform zur Liberalisierung des Agrarsektors. Zehntausende halten Zufahrtsstraßen in die Hauptstadt Delhi besetzt, in dieser Woche eskalierten die Proteste. Auf zweierlei Weise haben die Vorgänge viel mit dem Klimawandel zu tun.
Papers by Mihir Sharma
Anthropology now, May 4, 2022
"Researchers, activists and artists have demonstrated the devastating intergenerational ... more "Researchers, activists and artists have demonstrated the devastating intergenerational effects of gun violence, among them trauma and disability/debilitation among survivors and kin of persons shot or killed. Following in the footsteps of work done by Jodi Rios,1 Keona Ervin2 and Barbara Ransby,3 I conducted fieldwork in St. Louis, Missouri, between March 2018 and October 2019 on organizational forms, political subjectivities and transformative processes led by a Black-led coalition of organizations, actors and movements. I volunteered for the campaign “Close the Workhouse” and for the Bail Project. During this time, I attended protests, meetings among activists, public events, informal get-togethers, city hall interventions and, in 2020, a range of online events developed by a Black-led coalition of organizers in St. Louis. Although the focus of my research was not gun violence, the issue appeared prominently throughout the time I spent in the St. Louis area. Contrary to the near-exclusive emphasis on mass shootings I found in national media coverage, I became interested in how Black organizers in St. Louis had been working to address broader problems of violence and reframe the debate to foreground the problems facing their neighborhoods, thereby providing an antiracist intervention to the debate..."
At a time of Black Lives Matter and the proliferation of migrant, refugee and minority protests a... more At a time of Black Lives Matter and the proliferation of migrant, refugee and minority protests across the world (Polish women's, Belarusian, Palestinian, Roma and Sinti, to name just a few), as well as local and regional initiatives by minorities, migrants and refugees, we would like to bring together scholars who combine a focus on migrants or minorities with that on protest, resistance, activism, social engagement, and other related themes. We are interested both in the most visible struggles and everyday forms of activism, emerging activism, prefigurative politics, and other efforts of migrants and minorities, which often escape public and academic recognition.
Jacobin, 2020
In St. Louis, the demand to defund the police has dovetailed with long-lasting struggles against ... more In St. Louis, the demand to defund the police has dovetailed with long-lasting struggles against cash bail and the abuse of prisoners. The Board of Aldermen’s passing of a bill that promises to start closing the city’s most notorious jail reflects the movement’s strength — but also the need for pressure to ensure that abolitionist demands are not watered down into merely cosmetic reforms.
Urban Social Movements (Winter 2019/20), 2019
This is the syllabus of a seminar we (together with Jan Hutta, Geography) offered in the winter t... more This is the syllabus of a seminar we (together with Jan Hutta, Geography) offered in the winter term of 2019/20 at the University of Bayreuth on urban social movements. Using a range of readings from critical human geography, social anthropology, sociology, and philosophy, we examined seven cases of urban social movements in the U.S., in Germany, in India, in Brazil, as well as transnational movements. We examined issues of (insurgent) citizenship, digital activism, urbanity and geography, and modes of assembly and articulation in these movements. Participants in this course co-created zines and offered a presentation based on one social movement.
Analyse und Kritik, 2022
In Berlin kämpft ein Netzwerk von BPoC-Organistionen für die Gleichbehandlung von rassifizierten ... more In Berlin kämpft ein Netzwerk von BPoC-Organistionen für die Gleichbehandlung von rassifizierten Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine
Klimareporter, 2021
Seit Wochen wehrt sich die indische Landbevölkerung gegen eine Gesetzesreform zur Liberalisierung... more Seit Wochen wehrt sich die indische Landbevölkerung gegen eine Gesetzesreform zur Liberalisierung des Agrarsektors. Zehntausende halten Zufahrtsstraßen in die Hauptstadt Delhi besetzt, in dieser Woche eskalierten die Proteste. Auf zweierlei Weise haben die Vorgänge viel mit dem Klimawandel zu tun.
Anthropology now, May 4, 2022
"Researchers, activists and artists have demonstrated the devastating intergenerational ... more "Researchers, activists and artists have demonstrated the devastating intergenerational effects of gun violence, among them trauma and disability/debilitation among survivors and kin of persons shot or killed. Following in the footsteps of work done by Jodi Rios,1 Keona Ervin2 and Barbara Ransby,3 I conducted fieldwork in St. Louis, Missouri, between March 2018 and October 2019 on organizational forms, political subjectivities and transformative processes led by a Black-led coalition of organizations, actors and movements. I volunteered for the campaign “Close the Workhouse” and for the Bail Project. During this time, I attended protests, meetings among activists, public events, informal get-togethers, city hall interventions and, in 2020, a range of online events developed by a Black-led coalition of organizers in St. Louis. Although the focus of my research was not gun violence, the issue appeared prominently throughout the time I spent in the St. Louis area. Contrary to the near-exclusive emphasis on mass shootings I found in national media coverage, I became interested in how Black organizers in St. Louis had been working to address broader problems of violence and reframe the debate to foreground the problems facing their neighborhoods, thereby providing an antiracist intervention to the debate..."
At a time of Black Lives Matter and the proliferation of migrant, refugee and minority protests a... more At a time of Black Lives Matter and the proliferation of migrant, refugee and minority protests across the world (Polish women's, Belarusian, Palestinian, Roma and Sinti, to name just a few), as well as local and regional initiatives by minorities, migrants and refugees, we would like to bring together scholars who combine a focus on migrants or minorities with that on protest, resistance, activism, social engagement, and other related themes. We are interested both in the most visible struggles and everyday forms of activism, emerging activism, prefigurative politics, and other efforts of migrants and minorities, which often escape public and academic recognition.