Britta Ohm

Britta Ohm is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland. She has been conducting fieldwork on the changing media landscape in India since the

A public for democracy: overcoming mediated segregation in Turkey

In this context, “Gezi”, as a synonym for all the places in Turkey where protests and citizen forums have sprung up, is not as much about solidarity as it is about the albeit tentative discovery of common-ness through the very defence of the commons.

By Britta Ohm

/ 22 Jul 2013

Public against Democracy: the case of the Gujarat Pogrom 2002

The pogrom was not only publicly visible for the local population – as had always been the case with earlier instances of anti-minority violence – but for everybody who could find a screen to watch it on throughout India.

By Britta Ohm

/ 2 Oct 2012