Personal data

department

Research

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function in the IfZ

Researcher

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location

Munich

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e-mail

ghose@ifz-muenchen.de

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phone

089/126880

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studies

Sociocultural History in Global Perspective

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Career

• PhD International History & Politics, The Graduate Institute (IHEID), 2020
• MA International Development, The Graduate Institute (IHEID), 2013
• BA History, University of Cambridge, 2010

Research projects

• Concrete Tales: The Absented Voices of Deindustrialization through Popular Music

Publications

Books

• A Political Sound: K-pop and the Postcolonial Interruption | Monograph | Palgrave MacMillan (USA) [In Bearbeitung]

Articles

• ‘Rap Speaks, But Who Listens? The Musical ‘Other’ in France’ | History Workshop Journal, History Workshop Online | Oxford University Press [Published]

• Le Point d’Interrogation, Blog on Swiss (French) Newspaper Le Temps (2018-2021) [Published]

• ‘The Hindu in Hindustan, and the Troubles of History Repeating itself’, The Wire, 15 August, 2017 [Published]

• ‘Ebola: Reaction vs. Resolution’, Papiers d’Actualités, January/February 2015, Fondation Pierre Du Bois pour l’histoire du temps présent (2015) [Published]

 Book Chapters

• Travelling Sounds: Tracing the Global Origins of Rhythm And Poetry, Chapter 1 in The Cambridge Companion to Global Rap (Edited Volume, Dr. R. Bramwell) Cambridge University Press | September 2025 [In Process of Publication]

• ‘Postcolonial Deindustrialization: Perspectives on Transformation through French Rap (1980s-Present)’ |Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte | Journal Volume | 2025 [Accepted]

• Encounter of Asian and African Imaginaries in French Rap (1981-2012), Chapter 6 in the Collected Conference Volume from AfroAsian Musical Imaginaries: Interconnected Histories Across Continents, (Sumangala Damodaran Ed.)| Tulika Books, New Delhi: 2024 [Published]

Reviews and Summaries

• Book Review: Sarah Baker, Zelmarie Cantillon, Raphaël Nowak : Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Justice and the Deindustrialising City | Sehepunkte: Rezensions journal für die Gesichtswissenschaften | Volume 25, No. 13 (2025)

• Tagber: Human Rights: Between Universalism and Particularism: Conference Report| Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (KFG) “Universalism and Particularism in European Contemporary History”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Zeitgeschichte München) | 22 August 2024

• Book Review & Roundtable: ‘At Home in our Sounds: Music, Race and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris’ by Dr. Rachel Gillett (Oxford University Press 2021), H-Diplo Online Roundtable, 26 February 2024 [Published]

• 2023 Revue de 40 ans de musiques hip-hop en France (Karim Hammou et Marie Sonnette-Manouguian, Presses des Sciences Po: 2022), Revue de Musicologie, no. 109-2, automne 2023 [Published]

• 2023 Pathaan: Movie Review, The Wire, 13 March 2023 [Published]

Blogbeiträge

• Le Point d’Interrogation, [Blog] Le Temps (2018-2021).

Podcasts und YouTube Episodes

• Writer & Discussant | Hallyu Like That | “Made You Look: (G)I-dle’s Female Gaze” with Prof. Donna Kwon & James Bai | 25 November 2023 – 18 February 2024

• Interviewer & Correspondent | Utopia3 Podcasts | October 2022-December 2023

  Episode 1:Interview with Rahul Jain on his film Invisible Demons

  Episode 2:Interview with Oussmane Zoromé Samassékou on his film Le Dernier Refuge

  Episode 3:Interview with Aïssa Maïga on her film Marcher sur l’eau

  Episode 4: Interview with Nabil Ayouch on his film Casablanca Beats (2021) | Ocotber 2022
  
  Episode 5: Part I: Interview with Michal Weits on her film The Blue Box (2021)

  Episode 5: Part II: Interview with Denis Charbit (Hebrew University) and Avraham Berg (Hadash) on the film The Blue Box

  Episode 5: Part III: Interview with Saleh Hijazi (Amnesty International) on the film The Blue Box

• 2020 Narrator | ‘Gangs: Towards a Comparative Global Ethnography’ episode for the ‘Fields’ Podcast Series by The Graduate Institute Research Office (18 September 2020)