Raphael Susewind is a cooperation partner with For Digital Dignity, Project ONLINERPOL and Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Development at the Department of International Development, King’s college London. Using a distinct mix of ethnographic and Big Data methods grounded in long-term fieldwork, Raphael explores geographies of Muslim belonging, the ambivalence of the sacred and electoral politics in urban India.
He is the author of ‘Being Muslim and working for peace: Ambivalence and ambiguity in Gujarat’ (SAGE 2013) and published in journals such as Economic & Political Weekly, Environment and Planning A, Field Methods, the Journal of South Asian Development and SAMAJ. He has also written research software,curates a comprehensive open dataset on religion and politics on GitHub and occasionally blogs at www.raphael-susewind.de .