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Shubranshu Mishra began his PhD studies in International Relations at the Brussels School of International Studies in 2013. Previously, he earned his M.Phil in Diplomacy and Disarmament at Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, an MA in Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Shubranshu’s M.Phil dissertation, Notions of Life and Death and the Nuclear Behaviour of States: Understanding India’s Nuclear Behaviour and its Applicability to Iran, aimed to link the field of biopolitics, through Foucault’s scholarship, with the nuclear behaviour of states with the objective of widening the ambit of research in disarmament studies. His current research highlights the focus on life, particularly on the problem of ‘exception’ and politics of the ‘camp’, and the way populations are conducted that exposes the violence of liberal art of government. Using Indian-administered Kashmir as a case, this research attempts to understand it as an example of ‘bare life’ and ‘camp-based’ existence.
Shubranshu has also worked with Amnesty International in India where he supervised the ‘Counter Terror with Justice’ campaign, ‘Media and Communication’ and served as the editor of Adhikaar, quarterly newsletter. He conceptualized and anchored a course-curriculum for a twelve-week E-Seminar on ‘Reporting Peace and Development in South Asia’, offered by Samvada, an educational trust in India, for South Asian students and lecturers, assistant professors, and media workers, development workers, lawyers and film makers. He has also made academic presentations at national and international conferences on issues related to human rights and peacebuilding, international politics, arms control and disarmament, humanitarianism and counter-terror mechanisms.