Dhriti Shankar

About

Dhriti Shankar is currently pursuing a PhD at the Department of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has an academic background from Jadavpur University, Department of English. His varied research engages a transdisciplinary approach to critical cultural studies, with broad areas of interest spanning somaesthetics, urban studies, body politics, feminism, queer theory, animal studies, etc. He has presented his research widely at national and international conferences. Some of his notable works have appeared in Mobilities, CoDesign, Culture, Theory and Critique, etc.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Doctoral Research Scholar
  2020 - Present

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Publications (6)

• Rhythms of Revolution: A Rhythmanalytic Study of Everyday Somaesthetics in Tagore’s Tasher Desh and Raktakaravi
  Rhythms of Existence: From Cosmos to Human Experience 2026 0 citations DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-1896-8_10
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• Somaesthetics of urban automobility: ‘Journey’ as a kinetic metaphor in embodied urban epistemes
  Mobilities 2026 0 citations DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2608070
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• Spontaneous acts of everyday co-creation: somaesthetic study of affective placemaking in the case of Durga Puja, Kolkata
  Codesign 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1080/15710882.2024.2401455
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• Redefining ‘safe bodies’: queering the shifting body politics during the COVID-19 pandemic
  2023 0 citations DOI: 10.4324/9781003434061-7
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• Of sacred animals: the limits of animal rights activism and political veganism in India
  Culture Theory and Critique 2023 1 citation DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2024.2370566
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• Redefining ‘safe bodies’: queering the shifting body politics during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Distinktion 2022 1 citation DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2022.2054450
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