Nirmal Puwar is a senior lecturer at the department of Sociology at Goldsmiths University and Co-Director of Methods Lab.[1] She is a member of the Feminist Review editorial collective since 2000.[2] Puwar has co-edited 17 Collections, including: Post-colonial Bourdieu; Orientalism and Fashion; Intimacy in Research; Live Methods and, South Asian Women in the Diaspora.[3]
Puwar has written about and researches postcolonialism; institutions, race and gender & critical methodologies and has written two books; Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place (2004),[4] in which she argues that that diversity is about perceptions of whiteness rather than how whiteness operates,[5] and Fashion and Orientalism (2003).[6] In 2007, she directed the film Coventry Ritz which emphasizes "the haunting remnants of emptied out architecture and unused space."[7]