Rohit Jain holds a PhD in social anthropology and is a transdisciplinary researcher with a focus on migration, postcolonialism and global cultural economies. He is currently interested in the political aesthetics of postcolonial spaces and, in particular, how they can be made more democratic and polyphonic through collective interventions. Rohit Jain is co-founder of the collective Berner Rassismusstammtisch and the Schwar zenbach Kompl ex, a long-term artistic-political project on anti-racist politics of remembrance. He currently works as a lecturer and research assistant at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern. He recently co-edited the handbook New Switzerland (diaphanes, 2021).