In our continued effort to spotlight recent scholarly outputs of our faculty, the South Asia Center is proud to present a summary of recent publications that contribute to various fields related to South Asia Studies and beyond.
The list below contains a snapshot of scholarly publications related to South Asian or international topics appearing since 2023. For more, see our post from May 2024.
Featured publications:
Alburez Gutierrez, Diego, Enrique Acosta, Emilio Zagheni, and Nathalie E Williams. 2024. “The Longlasting Effect of Armed Conflicts Deaths on the Living: Quantifying Family Bereavement.” Science Advances 10 (30). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado6951.
Chalana, Manish. 2023. “The Past and Future of the Vernacular Cultural Landscapes of Johar Valley, Uttarakhand, India.” Journal of Heritage Management 8 (2): 169–94. https://doi.org/10.1177/24559296231188837.
Das, Debamanyu. 2023. “Role of the State in the Energy Transition: The Case of China and Lessons for the United States.” SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4620256.
Dattani, Kavita. 2024. “Data‐Bility: Endogamous Social Intimacies on Dating Apps in Mumbai.” Transactions – Institute of British Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12687.
Deva, Surya, Anita Ramasastry, and Florian Wettstein. 2023. “Beyond Human Rights Due Diligence: What Else Do We Need?” Business and Human Rights Journal 8 (2): 133–34. https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2023.33.
Dhavan, Purnima. 2024. “Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia by Divya Cherian (Review).” Eighteenth-Century Studies 57 (4): 559–61. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2024.a931699.
Fani, Aria, Kevin L Schwartz, and Samuel Hodgkin. 2024. “Pathways to Persotopias.” PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 139 (2): 299306. https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812924000221.
Govindrajan, Radhika. 2024. “‘All Cases Are False’: Law, Gendered Violence, and the Politics of Thickening in Himalayan India.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14200.
Houki, Naziha, Alka Kurian, and Kenza Oumlil. 2023. “Social Media and Fourth Wave Feminism in Morocco.” In The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East, edited by Joe F. Khalil, Gholam Khiabany, Tourya Guaaybess, and Bilge Yesil, 453–67. John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119637134.ch36.
Kurian, Alka. 2023. “Bad Girls of Pinjra Tod.” In Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices against State Violence, edited by Shreerekha Pillai, 230–48. University of Illinois Press. https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252045189.003.0012.
Mahadevan, Sudhir. 2023. Review of The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization, by Francis Coddy. Studies in South Asian Film & Media. Intellect. https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00080_5.
Novetzke, Christian Lee. 2024. “‘Mother English’: Savitribai Phule on Caste Patriarchy and the Ideology of the English Vernacular.” In Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia, edited by Hans Harder and Nishat Zaidi, 1st ed., 1:57–74. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003279921
Novetzke, Christian Lee, and Sunila Kalé. 2024. The Yoga of Power: Yoga as Political Thought and Practice in India. Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-yoga-of-power/9780231220019
Peshin, Tapas, Shayak Sengupta, Sumil K Thakrar, Kirat Singh, Jason Hill, Joshua S Apte, Christopher W Tessum, Julian D Marshall, and Inês M L Azevedo. 2024. “Air Quality, Health, and Equity Impacts of Vehicle Electrification in India.” Environmental Research Letters 19 (2). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad1c7a.
Rahman, Anis. 2024. “South Asia as Contested Terrain for Cultural Imperialism.” In Global Media Dialogues: Industry, Politics, and Culture, edited by Lee Artz, 1st ed., 168–92. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003295693-7.
Salomon, Richard. 2023. Review of The East Mebon Stele Inscription from Angkor (K. 528): A Sanskrit Eulogy on the Tenth-Century Khmer Sovereign Rājendravarman, by Dominic Goodall. IndoIranian Journal. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06602003.
Salomon, Richard. 2024. “Review of Jñānapraśaṃsā: In Praise of Knowledge. Essays in Honour of E. G. Kahrs.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 144 (1). https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.144.1.2024.r005.
Salomon, Richard. 2024. “Forgotten Buddhist Literatures as Revealed by Manuscript Discoveries in India and Beyond.” Philological Encounters, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-bja10054.
Yang, Anand A. 2023. “In My Father’s Trunk.” In Old Stacks, New Leaves the Arts of the Book in South Asia, 271–78. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780295751108-017.
Zhao, Yuezhi, Anis Rahman, and Lee Artz. 2024. “The Belt and Road Initiative, Communication, and Geopolitics.” In Global Media Dialogues: Industry, Politics, and Culture, edited by Lee Artz, 1st ed., 234–59. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003295693-9.