Paid work, unpaid care work and women's empowerment in Nepal Employment and work surveys in Nepal have shown a high concentration of women in certain occupations, being flexible, low paid and requiring low skill. In the far-western region (Jumla District, Ka...

*Archive article of the week*

Anweshaa Ghosh & Deepta Chopra (2019), 'Paid work, unpaid care work and women’s empowerment in Nepal'

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Dr Mudassar Munir - The state through intermediaries: Dhara Bandi, mediation,and the politics of survival in Punjab, Pakistan | Podcast Episode on RSS.com Across rural Punjab, formal state institutions are often experienced as distant, opaque, and unreliable. In this context, intermediaries occupy central roles in the everyday political and social life ...

*Available now: Episode 5 of the CSA Podcast*

We discuss Dr Mudassar Munir's article, 'The state through intermediaries: Dhara Bandi, mediation, and the politics of survival in Punjab, Pakistan'

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Phantoms of the drains: imaginations of conflict in everyday infrastructures This article traces how the network of ordinary municipal drains (nullahs) in Northeast Delhi became a ‘trauma trove’ in the aftermath of the 2020 Delhi pogrom. Drawing on three years of sensory et...

In my new article, I examine Delhi’s drains as “haunted infrastructures” of violence. Through sensory ethnography, I explore how everyday spaces come to hold memory, rumor, and anticipation of conflict, shaping how violence is lived, remembered, and imagined over time. #OpenAccess: bit.ly/4NulLaH

Lion’s blood: social media, everyday nationalism and anti-Muslim mobilisation among Sinhala-Buddhist youth Sri Lanka has recently seen an upsurge in aggression towards ethnic minorities, and Muslims in particular, by newly formed extremist Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist groups. The politicisation of Buddh...

*Archive article of the week*

Carolina Holgersson Ivarsson (2018), 'Lion’s blood: social media, everyday nationalism and anti-Muslim mobilisation among Sinhala-Buddhist youth'

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Dr Dhaneswar Bhoi - Caste, mental health and self-harm: emotive experiences of Dalit students at the Indian University | Podcast Episode on RSS.com We discuss Dhaneswar's study examining the daily social realities and emotive experiences faced by Dalit university students. The study analyses their mental and emotional suffering caused by the univ...

*Episode 4 of the CSA Podcast is now available*

We discuss Dr Dhaneswar Bhoi's study examining the daily social realities and emotive experiences faced by Dalit university students.

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Contemporary South Asia Volume 34, Issue 1 of Contemporary South Asia

*Issue 34.1 is now available online!*

It contains 10 research articles, 6 book reviews and 1 documentary review:

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Dr Aparna Agarwal - The making and unmaking of the Bhalswa landfill in Delhi | Podcast Episode on RSS.com This paper explores the politics of invisibilising waste through peripheral spaces and built infrastructures of landfills. In particular, it examines the socio-spatial making and unmaking of the Bhals...

Episode 3 of the CSA Podcast is available now on all major streaming platforms!

This episode features an interview with Dr Aparna Agarwal on the socio-spatial making and unmaking of the Bhalswa landfill in Delhi, from colonial to post-colonial times

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Dr Anam Kuraishi - Talking post-truth: elite rhetoric on democracy in Pakistan | Podcast Episode on RSS.com Post-truth is increasingly linked to the decline of democracy through its association with fake news and misinformation. In recent literature, however, there has been a shift in discussing post-truth ...

Episode 2 of the CSA Podcast features an interview with Dr Anam Kuraishi

‘Talking post-truth: elite rhetoric on democracy in Pakistan’

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Dr Bharti Arora - Decolonial praxis/es of solidarity in Indian literary and cultural discourses on social movements | Podcast Episode on RSS.com Interview with Bharti Arora, an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of English, University of Delhi.Special Section titled: Decolonial praxis/es of solidarity in Indian literary and cultu...

In episode 1 of the CSA Podcast, CSA Editor Dr Thomas Chambers interviews special section guest editor Dr Bharti Arora:

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Contemporary South Asia Podcast | Podcast on RSS.com The Contemporary South Asia podcast extends the mission of the journal by providing a forum for critical engagement with the social, political, economic, and cultural transformations shaping the regio...

Check out the Contemporary South Asia Podcast. The podcast extends the mission of the journal by providing a forum for critical engagement with the social, political, economic, and cultural transformations shaping the region today:
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Contemporary South Asia Podcast | Podcast on RSS.com The Contemporary South Asia podcast extends the mission of the journal by providing a forum for critical engagement with the social, political, economic, and cultural transformations shaping the regio...

Check out the Contemporary South Asia podcast... based on recent articles in the journal, this accessible format brings the authors' research to the wider public. Available here and on all major streaming services: rss.com/podcasts/con...

Contemporary South Asia Publishes cross-regional research on South Asia in the arts and social sciences, explores issues that concern scholars working on regional diasporas.

To find out more about the Contemporary South Asia Journal, or to submit an article, please see: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ccs...