Nikhil Ramachandran
Student Fellow
Nikhil Ramachandran is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently working on a project that focuses on the potential for reclaiming urban space for practices that use logics that are alternative to the capitalist imaginary. It explores the contradictions that arise as well as the capacity to imagine otherwise. His research and teaching interests lie broadly in the problematics of political imagination, racial capitalism, and interdisciplinary methods.
Participating Years
2025–2026
Mobility: Transit and Transformation
Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.