Significant Publications
Farooqi, Irfanullah, and Gogoi, Suraj. (2025). “Risk, Reciprocity, and Academic Pursuit in India,” The British Journal of Sociology: 1–4.
Gogoi, Suraj., & Sen, Rohini. (2024) “Citizenship and Belonging: NRC Process in Assam” in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol 50 (19) 4828-4849.
Gogoi, Suraj., & Saikia, Parag.J. (2020) “Sharing and Exchanging: Understanding Common Grounds in Northeast India”, Asian Ethnicity, Vol 21 (1) 22-38.
Prakash, Aseem., & Gogoi, Suraj. (2015) “What Happened to Caste Based Political Parties?” Exemplar: The Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol 3(1) 18-27.
Gogoi, Suraj., & Sen, Rohini (2023) “Tablighi Jaamat: Racism and Coronavirus in Assam” in Satveer Kaur-Gill & Mohan J. Dutta (Eds.) Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication, Inequality, and Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan.
Gogoi, Suraj. (2023) “Formless Punishment and Exclusion: Criminalizing the Migrant Through the Indian National Register of Citizens” in Pablo Ciocchini and George Radics (Eds.) Criminal Legalities from the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan.
Gogoi, Suraj. (2023) “What is New about Contemporary Indian Democracy”: A review of The New Republic: Populism, Power and the Trajectories of Indian Democracy edited by Shray Mehta and Ravi Kumar, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LVIII (44) 31-33.
Gogoi, Suraj. (7 April 2022) The Strategy Behind a Political Party’s Rise: A Review of Nalin Mehta’s The New BJP (Westland Books), Live Mint.
Pegu, M., & Gogoi, S. (1 April 2024) Diminishing Returns: Assam Failing CAA Protests, The Caravan.
Gogoi, Suraj. (28 Sept, 2023) When Memories Become a Threat, Fountain Ink.
Gogoi, Suraj. (2 June 2023) In Mizoram, a Refugee Crisis Highlights Mizo Tribal Affinities and Hostility, Himal Southasian.
Gogoi, Suraj. (13 April 2022) On “Non-political” Assamese. Himal Southasian.
Gogoi, Suraj. (2020) Refusal, Romanticism and Ground Realities in Northeast India, Borderlines CAASSME.
Gogoi, Suraj & Sen, Rohini. (14 Oct 2020) The NRC’s Spillover Effect. Himal Southasian.
Gogoi, Suraj. (2 July 2020) Heat and Coronavirus, Anthropology News.
Gogoi, Suraj., & Chakma, Shyamal. (2018). The Bru-Mizo Conflict in Mizoram, Economic & Political Weekly, 53 no. 44 (November 3).
Research Areas
Indian Sociology, Citizenship in South Asia, Social Theory, State and Minority, Caste, Violence, Migration, Qualitative Research Methods (Ethnography), Hospitality, Census, Bureaucracy, Sociology of Food, Race, Social & Political Thought in Northeast India, Death and Law.
Conferences, Seminars & Talks
- “Death, Citizenship and Justice”, Invited for the regional seminar titled History for Peace by Takshila Foundation and Seagull Foundation of Arts, Patna (3 and 4 December 2023)
- “Right to Hospitality and Citizenship”, Invited for the annual seminar titled History for Peace by Seagull Foundation of Arts, Kolkata (3,4 & 5 August 2023).
- “Infrastructures of Citizenship”, Invited for a dialogue on Citizenship as a speaker at The India-China Institute, The New School, New York (10 March 2023).
- “Who is the Outsider in Northeast”, Invited as a speaker for Newslaundry’s Media Rumble, New Delhi (14 & 15 Oct 2022).
- “Family as the Political”, Citizenship and Migration in South Asia: Looking Beyond Partition, Royal Holloway, London (10 &11 June 2022).
- “Formless Punishment: Criminalizing the migrant through the National Register of Citizens process”, Law and Society Conference, Lisbon (13-16 July 2022).
- Waste, De/disvalue and the Citizen-subject in South Asia.” A Talk at The Stanford South Asia Working Group. (8 March 2022).
- “Citizenship Crisis in India”. Invited as a Speaker and Moderator in the University of York Online Short Documentary Festival 2021.
- “NRC and Assamese History”. Conference on “Writing the Region: Knowledge, Practice and Power in South Asia”, Princeton University (17-18 April 2021).
- “NRC in Assam: Spectre of Law & Acquiescent Subjectivities”. Conference on “Stigmatization, Identities and the Law”, National University of Singapore (23-24 June 2020).
- “NRC and Vulnerable Subjects”. Invited to Present a Paper in a Conference on “Statelessness and Right to Have Rights: National Conference on the Citizenship Laws in India” Jointly Organised by Legal Aid Society, National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata and Cornell Law School, NUJS (22-23 Feb 2020).
- “NRC and Statelessness”. Invited as a Speaker at Talk Journalism held in Jaipur (20-22 Sept 2019).
- “The National Register of Citizenship and Crisis of Citizenship”. Invited to Speak as a Panel Member, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (12 Oct 2019).
- “Who is an Indian?” Invited to Speak at a Public Talk Organised by Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) and People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Marathi Patrakar Sangh (13 Oct 2019).
- “Thinking Immaterially About Borders”. Royster Global Society Conference on “Borders”, University of North Carolina (28-31 May 2019).
