Vyshakh Thaliyil
Media and Communication Postgraduate Researcher
Project Title: Using creative documentary filmmaking to explore processes of socialisation and the lived experiences of people in communist villages of Kerala and Newcastle
Supervisors: Dr. Ian McDonald, Dr. Geetha Jayaraman
Vyshakh Thaliyil filmmaker and journalist from Kerala, India and has made films that explore the cultures and narratives of the Global South.
Project Description
My practice-led PhD project is a study of ‘communist villages' of Pattiam in Northern Kerala and Chopwell in North East England
Global South, people’s movements, diasporic cultures, imperialism
Personal Interests: Photography, activism and cooking
PUBLICATIONS
Thaliyil, V. (2022). Bringing the state closer to people: 25 years of Kerala’s ‘People’s Plan’. Peoples Dispatch
Thaliyil, V., & Radhakrishnan, M. (2021). The Second Wave of COVID-19: A Report from India. Post Colonial Politics.
