Tanay Gandhi is lecturer in political theory at the University of Leeds. His current research focuses on the connections across two aesthetic-political problematics in postcolonial India: unruliness as a genre of radical democratic politics, and - through such genre - the evocation of a distinctly Indian vernacular of the politics of refusal. His recent publications include Rhythms of Dalit Refusal in the poetry of Namdeo Dhasal (in press; Paragraph, 2026) and Dam(n)med Bodies: disorderly subjectivity and sublime experience in the Narmada Movement (Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, 2024). Tanay can be reached at T.M.Gandhi@leeds.ac.uk.

Viktoria Huegel is a postdoctoral fellow in the ERC project Prefiguring Democratic Futures. Cultural and Theoretical Responses to the Crisis of Political Imagination, led by Oliver Marchart (University of Vienna). She heads the sub-project Culture – Preenacting Democratic Spaces, which explores the democratising potential of performative practices and artistic spaces. Together with Clare Woodford (University of Brighton), she also leads the AHRC research network ‘Wellbeing State,’ which brings together international researchers and policy makers to rethink welfare state policy for the 21st century. In general, her research is driven by the concern with contemporary authoritarianism, investigating strategies of resistance, and aims to revive our democratic imagination.