About 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 early 1990s, first as a documentary filmmaker and employee of German public television. Currently, she is finishing a book on post-Gujarat Indian television and conducting a project on negotiations between the secular and the Islamic on Turkish television.

Articles by Britta Ohm

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.

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