Siddharth Pandey - global dis:connect

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Siddharth Pandey

Siddharth is a writer, artist and cultural critic from Himachal Pradesh. He has a PhD in literary and materiality studies from Cambridge. As an interdisciplinary academic, he has held numerous research fellowships at Yale, the Paul Mellon Centre and the LMU. His first book Fossil (2021) was a finalist for the 2022 Banff Mountain Literature Awards. His photographic work has been commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Oriental Museum (Durham), among others. He contributes regularly to several popular and academic platforms.

Movement, materiality and weather-worlds of vitality: towards an affective Himalayan humanities

My project develops a new materialist framework to study the Indian Himalayas. Taking the Western Himalayas as my core area of study, I scrutinise the affective registers and vitalist concepts of this landscape. The vitalism of new materialism is grounded in a regard for movement and process, which forces us to think about human and non-human entities in perpetually alive, relational and fluid terms. This fluid perspective helps us open the landscape creatively, such that the corporeal and incorporeal, the aesthetic and the political constantly shade into each other.

Have a look at Siddharth’s research poster about his project.

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