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Milinda Banerjee

Milinda Banerjee is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St. Andrews, where he directs the MLitt program in Global Social and Political Thought. He is the author of The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.

Symposia

Partition and/as Political Theology: Art, Resistance, and Peacebuilding in India and Northern Ireland

The following is the first of a short series on partition and/as political theology, which will be published in the journal Political Theology in 2024.

Essays

Partition as Oedipal Tragedy: A Conversation between Bratya Basu and Milinda Banerjee

“Across all classes and strata, Bengalis live this double existence – we live like Don Quixote.”

“There is Grief, There is Death…”: Mourning in the Wake of COVID-19

In Conversation: Dipesh Chakrabarty and Alapan Bandyopadhyay, with an introduction by Milinda Banerjee. Translation by Milinda Banerjee and Sreyoshi Bose.

The Brink: Betwixt and Between

In their thematic introduction, the editors of the The Brink describe the liminal, dangerous, and life-making potential for this new blog on the PTN website.

The Rupture of Desire: An Interview with China Miéville

The following is a small portion of a longer interview with China Miéville in the journal Political Theology.

Pussy Riot and the Church

This piece is from the Political Theology Network archives originally posted on August 23, 2012.

In Memoriam: Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas and the Journey of Theology Toward the Future

The prominent Eastern Orthodox theologian Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas of Pergamon (Ecumenical Patriarchate) passed in Athens, on February 2, 2023.

Vulnerability

From Myanmar to Mariupol, from the streets of Memphis to the waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea: resistance to violence takes many forms. So does political protest against precarity. At which point does the unavoidable vulnerability of the living condition come to expression as political agency? Can such precarious politics constitute or configure an alternative community?