West Bengal under the Left, 1977-2011
The Refugee Woman' explores the Partition of Bengal in 1947, in its relationship to gender, by innovatively engaging with the cultural imagination of the displaced refugee woman in West Bengal. This work reads the above figure critically in order to trace the shifting meanings o…
In this groundbreaking ethnography, Townsend Middleton engages two communities- minorities seeking tribal status and government anthropologists-to examine the escalating politics of recognition and affirmative action in India. From the violent struggles for Gorkhaland to the tri…
Navigating Austerity addresses a key question of our era: What happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? Laura Bear traces the hidden currents of state debt crises and their often devastating effects through the stones of boatme…
