Dr. Ruchi Chaturvedi

Associate Professor

Ruchi Chaturvedi is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research focuses on cultures of democracy, popular politics and political violence in South Asia and South Africa. Dr. Chaturvedi is also interested in the career of university apartheid in South Africa mapping changes that have taken place in humanities curriculums and pedagogies since 1994. She is the author of Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India, (Duke University Press 2023) co-published in India by Orient Blackswan (2023). She is the co-editor of Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University (Wits University Press, 2023). Her other publications and editorial work have appeared in Cultural Anthropology, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and Middle East, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Economic and Political Weekly, and Review of African Political Economy. Chaturvedi is the co-convener of the international consortium on Other Universals: Theorising Aesthetics and Politics from Postcolonial Locations.