Harikrishnan Sasikumar is a postdoctoral fellow with the Ireland North–South Project at the Conflict Institute at Dublin City University (DCU). He is the author of Social Spaces and the Public Sphere: A Spatial-History of Modernity in Kerala. Previously, he has taught at DCU and been a researcher at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, in Johannesburg, South Africa. More recently, he has been working on spatiality in post-conflict Northern Ireland.