Gargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Sociology at University of East London. Their research interests are in the areas of: ‘race’ and racisms; sexualities; global cultures; the ‘War on Terror’, and, increasingly austerity and racial capitalism.

Gargi has published widely in the fields of racism, sexuality, austerity and racial capitalism, including Dangerous Brown Men (Zed, 2008), Crisis, austerity and everyday life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Rethinking Racial Capitalism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) and, with other authors, Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (Pluto, 2021).