Tripta Chandola

Tripta Chandola is an ethnographer based in Delhi, India. She completed her doctorate from Queensland University of Technology, Australia, in 2010. She has held research positions at NUS, Singapore and RMIT, Melbourne. She has also worked as a research consultant for several international and national projects. One of her long-term, sustained research engagements has been with the space and its residents of the slums of Govindpuri in Delhi. The politics of everyday encounters of marginalisation, disenfranchisement and rights of the poor are the key focus of her research. She has published in international peer-review journals and contributed to edited book collections. In 2015, BBC World Service commissioned a radio programme based on her doctoral research titled Listening into Others. The politics of everyday encounters of marginalisation, disenfranchisement and rights of the poor are the key focus of her research. She has published in international peer-review journals and contributed to edited book collections. In 2015, BBC World Service commissioned a radio programme based on her doctoral research titled Listening into Others.

Currently she is pursuing the questions of “What to do with the multiplicities of our Digital Selves?”, drawing from her own ethnographic experience in everyday digital consumptions in Govindpuri, and other spaces and platforms as twitter, but also informed by my interactions with the students through the DERC-India fellowship, https://digital-ethnography.com/news/derc-india-internship/. Her current work is located within, and pushing the boundaries of, Byung-Chul Han’s work.

Her first book based on her engagements in and with the slums of Govindpuri, Listening into others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri, was published by the Institute of Network Cultures in 2020. The book is available here: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2020/05/15/out-now-tod36-listening-into-others-an-ethnographic-exploration-in-govindpuri/.