Vikas Choudhary has recently submitted his PhD thesis, which is situated in the post-2014 political landscape of India and examines the politics of memory. By employing phenomenological perspective, the thesis theorises how experiences of privilege and oppression shape the constitutive structures of individual memory. His research and teaching interests include caste politics, politics of memory and phenomenology.
Vikas has presented his work at various universities, including the Centre for Subjectivity Research at Copenhagen University and King’s College London, where he was awarded the Best Paper Award in 2023 for one of his thesis chapters. His plan is to develop a course on the ‘Hard Problems’ in Politics, focusing on pre-linguistic phenomena such as judgement, memory, and prejudice that continue to shape political discourse in the 21st century.