south asian studies
Threatening Dystopias
The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh
Kasia Paprocki
BASAS Book Prize Winner 2023
Threatening Dystopias shows how in Bangladeshnational global elites ignore the history of landscape transformation and political conflicts, redistributing power from peasant communities in the name of climate adaptation.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
December 2021 24 b&w hfts, 2 maps 270pp
9781501759161 £26.99 PB now £18.89
Atmospheric Violence
Disaster and Repair in Kashmir Omer Aijazi
Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish alongside continuing violence. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the portion of Kashmir under Pakistan’s control, this book takes us to two remote mountainous valleys that have been shaped by recurring environmental disasters, and security checkpoints of the contested India/Pakistan border.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Series: Contemporary Ethnography
June 2024 30 b&w illus. 296pp
9781512823608 £27.99 PB now £19.59
Mumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling,
Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Series edited by Padma Kaimal, K.
Sivaramakrishnan & Anand A. Yang
Arguing that planning professionals need to pay closer attention to those who cycle for transportation, work and recreation, this book offers an alternative to the sustainable transportation discussions.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Series: Global South Asia
August 2024 17 b&w illus. 258pp
9780295752693 £27.99 PB now £19.59
Reading India Now Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture
Ulka Anjaria
Anjaria categorizes post-2000 Indian literature and popular culture as constituting "the contemporary," a movement defined by new and experimental forms—where highand low-brow meet, and genres break down. Reading India Now studies the implications of this developing trend as both the right-wing resurges and marginalized voices find expression.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2024 282pp
9781439916643 £16.99 PB now £11.89
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Boats in a Storm
Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962
Kalyani Ramnath
Drawing on archival research conducted in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London, and Singapore, Kalyani Ramnath narrates how former migrants battled legal requirements to revive prewar circulations of credit, capital, and labor, in a postwar context of rising ethno-nationalisms that accused migrants of stealing jobs and hoarding land.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: South Asia in Motion
August 2023 15 hfts, 2 maps 308pp
9781503636095 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Breathless Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India
Andrew McDowell
Drawing on long-term ethnographic engagement with a village in North India and its tuberculosis epidemic, Andrew McDowell tells the stories of socially marginalized Dalit ("ex-untouchable") farming families afflicted by TB, and the nurses, doctors, quacks, mediums, and mystics who care for them.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: South Asia in Motion
April 2024 272pp
9781503638778 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Calling Family
Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives
Tanja Ahlin
How do digital technologies shape both how people care for each other and, through that, who they are? With technological innovation is on the rise and increasing migration introducing vast distances between family members, this is a pertinent question.Through ethnographic fieldwork among families of migrating nurses from Kerala, India, Tanja Ahlin explores how digital technologies shape elder care when adult children and their aging parents live far apart.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2023 16 b&w images, 1 table 212pp
9781978834323 £34.00 PB now £23.80
Fabricating Homeland Security
Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel
Rhys Machold
Pairing insights from science and technology studies with those from decolonial and postcolonial theory, Fabricating Homeland Security traces 26/11's political and policy fallout, concentrating on the efforts of Israel's homeland security industry to advise and equip Indian city and state governments. Machold details how homeland security is a universalizing project, and tells the story of how claims to global authority are fabricated and put to work.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: South Asia in Motion
September 2024 29 hfts, 1 map 372pp
9781503640719 £29.99 PB now £20.99
Fragile Hope Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India Sandhya Fuchs
Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore. In 2019, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice urgently asked how legal systems can counter bias. Drawing on longterm fieldwork with Dalit survivors of caste atrocities, police, and judiciary, Fuchs unveils how Dalit communities in the state of Rajasthan interpret and mobilize the PoA.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: South Asia in Motion
June 2024 11 hfts, 2 maps 358pp
9781503639362 £27.99 PB now £19.59
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence
A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal Tithi Bhattacharya
Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in a dialogue with European science.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS
August 2024 6 illus. 232pp
9781478030713 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Labors of Division
Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab
Navyug Gill
Far from archaic relics, this book ultimately reveals both the landowning peasant and landless laborer to be novel political subjects forged through the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Questions of progress, exploitation and knowledge come to animate the vernacular operations of power. With this history, Gill brings difference and contingency to understandings of the global past in order to re-think the itinerary of comparative political economy as well as alternative possibilities for emancipatory futures.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: South Asia in Motion
January 2024 1 table, 10 hfts, 2 maps 376pp
9781503637498 £27.99 PB now £19.59
Pakistan and American Diplomacy
Insights from 9/11 to the Afghanistan Endgame
Theodore Craig
Through the lens of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, former senior U.S. embassy official Ted Craig offers an insightful, fast-moving tour through U.S.Pakistan relations, from 9/11 to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
POTOMAC BOOKS
April 2024 3 maps, index 296pp
9781640126008 £29.99 HB now £20.99
Pakistan Desires
Queer Futures Elsewhere
Edited by Omar Kasmani
The contributors to Pakistan Desires offer a multidisciplinary view on figures and forms of queerness in Pakistan, inviting reflection on queer’s myriad meanings in Pakistan and explore how desire can serve as a mode of queer future-making. By embracing forms of desire elsewhere, ones that cannot correlate to or often fall outside dominant Western theorizations of queerness, this volume gathers other ways of being queer in the world.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS
November 2023 36 illus. 288pp
9781478025238 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat
Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan
Ali Usman Qasmi
Drawing on a rich archive of diverse sources, Qasmi traces the complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a history of the country's formative period. Qasmi paints a rich picture of the conflict-ridden process of writing a democratic constitution of Pakistan, while simultaneously narrating the invention of a range of new rituals of state, providing an illuminating analysis of the practices of being Pakistani.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: South Asia in Motion
December 2023 444pp
9781503637788 £29.99 PB now £20.99
Resistance as Negotiation
Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India Uday Chandra
Chandra demonstrates how the modern Indian state and its tribal subjects have remade each other throughout the colonial and postcolonial eras, historical processes of modern statemaking shaping and being shaped by myriad forms of resistance by tribal subjects.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: South Asia in Motion
June 2024 3 tables, 1 figure, 10 hfts, 1 map 340pp
9781503638112 £67.00 HB now £46.90
Shareholder Cities
Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India
Sai Balakrishnan
In Shareholder Cities, Sai Balakrishnan argues that some of India's most decisive conflicts over its urban futures will unfold in the regions along the new economic corridors, such as the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, where electorally strong agrarian propertied classes directly encounter financially powerful incoming urban firms.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century August 2023 29 b&w illus. 240pp
9781512825503 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Terrorism on Trial
Political Violence and Abolitionist
Futures
Nicole Nguyen
A retheorization of terrorism as political violence, Terrorism on Trial invites readers to carefully consider the role of power and politics in the making of armed resistance, addressing the root causes of political violence, with a goal of building toward a less violent and more liberatory world.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2023 416pp
9781517914394 £25.99 PB now £18.19
The Political Outsider
Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism
Srirupa Roy
Tracking the shift from postcolonial nation-building to democracy-rebuilding, Srirupa Roy shows how the political outsider came to be a valorized figure of late-twentieth century Indian democracy, tasked with the urgent mission of curing a broken democratic system—what Roy terms "curative democracy." By tracing the crooked line that connects the ideals of curative democracy and the political outsider to the populist antipolitics and strongman authoritarian rule in present times, this book revisits democracy from India, and asks what the Indian experience tells us about the trajectory of global democratic politics.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: South Asia in Motion
March 2024 1 table 374pp
9781503637986 £29.99 PB now £20.99
The Promise of Piety
Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan
Arsalan Khan
In The Promise of Piety, Arsalan Khan examines the zealous commitment to a distinct form of face-to-face preaching (dawat) among Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement the Tablighi Jamaat.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
February 2024 6 b&w hfts 240pp
9781501773570 £27.99 PB now £19.59
The Stigma Matrix
Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women
Fauzia Husain
This book draws on the experiences of policewomen, lady health workers, and airline attendants, all frontline workers, and its global allies, address, surveil, and discipline veiled women citizens. The experiences of the three groups Husain examines reveal that inclusion requires more than quotas or special seats. This book advances critical feminist and sociological frameworks on stigma and agency showing that both concepts are entangled with elite projects of hegemony.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Globalization in Everyday Life
January 2024 4 tables, 2 figures 306pp
9781503636057 £25.99 PB now £18.19
The Twelfth of February Canadian Aid for Gender Equality during
the Rise of Violent Extremism in Pakistan
Rhonda Gossen
Gossen explores how war in Afghanistan influenced the spread of violent Islamic extremism in Pakistan, following the ebbs and flows of aid to both countries. Drawing on her experience as a development worker and interviews with activists, NGOs, officials, and diplomats, she considers how women’s organizations and NGOs resist violent extremism.
MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: McGill-Queen's/Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Studies in Leadership, Public Policy, and Governance
September 2024 21 photos, 3 diagrams, 1 map 276pp
9780228022527 £29.99 PB now £20.99
Traders and Tinkers
Bazaars in the Global Economy
Maitrayee Deka
The term "tinker" calls to mind nomadic medieval vendors who operate on the fringe of formal society. This book is an exploration of the role of bazaars and tinkers in the modern global economy. In Delhi, and across the world, these street markets work to create a new information society.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Culture and Economic Life
August 2023 5 hfts 248pp
9781503636002 £25.99 PB now £18.19