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Playgrounds of Resistance: A Patchwork Ethnography of Sex Workers’ Sociopolitical Collectivisation in South & West India (2025)
Thesis
Krishnakumar, J. Playgrounds of Resistance: A Patchwork Ethnography of Sex Workers’ Sociopolitical Collectivisation in South & West India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Sex workers in India have long battled singular, stereotypical representations of themselves as victim-criminals, or, as ‘key populations’ in India’s HIV/AIDS Targeted Intervention programmes since the late 1980s through the 1990s. This thesis engage... Read More about Playgrounds of Resistance: A Patchwork Ethnography of Sex Workers’ Sociopolitical Collectivisation in South & West India.

Drawing, Writing, Buildings: An Ethnography of Yangon General Hospital (2024)
Thesis
Wuttke, N. Drawing, Writing, Buildings: An Ethnography of Yangon General Hospital. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

How to write about, represent in text, an institution like a public hospital? As with many anthropological subjects, the hospital is large and complex, and never usually seen or understood as a whole. This thesis takes up this challenge, proposing an... Read More about Drawing, Writing, Buildings: An Ethnography of Yangon General Hospital.

Landscapes, salt and ethics: a visual ethnography of the ‘Afar caravan trade in north-eastern Ethiopia (2021)
Thesis
Trojer, T. Landscapes, salt and ethics: a visual ethnography of the ‘Afar caravan trade in north-eastern Ethiopia. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The PhD project Landscapes, salt and ethics: a visual ethnography of the ‘Afar caravan trade in north-eastern Ethiopia combines Anthropology with Ethnographic Filmmaking as part of a PhD in Anthropology and Sociology. The written dissertation explore... Read More about Landscapes, salt and ethics: a visual ethnography of the ‘Afar caravan trade in north-eastern Ethiopia.

Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan (2020)
Thesis
Khan, M. A. Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis explores the politics and poetics of road making in Pakistan. The material addresses two questions: why do states build roads? What happens to the people and places that roads pass through when roads finally appear? I conducted eleven mont... Read More about Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan.

The Hermit Village of Malana: An Update on Community Democracy and the Management of Change in the Himalayas (2019)
Book Chapter
Axelby, R., & Rigaud, S. (2019). The Hermit Village of Malana: An Update on Community Democracy and the Management of Change in the Himalayas. In S. Jodhka, & E. Simpson (Eds.), India's Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions (326-352). Oxford University Press

In the decades that followed Independence, the study of rural society became the backbone for new sociological understandings of India. This chapter starts with one of these accounts –Colin Rosser’s study of the ‘hermit’villageof Malana –and... Read More about The Hermit Village of Malana: An Update on Community Democracy and the Management of Change in the Himalayas.

Tales of the everyday city: geography and chronology in postcolonial Mombasa (2018)
Thesis
Goodman, Z. Tales of the everyday city: geography and chronology in postcolonial Mombasa. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Towards an anthropology of coups in Fiji (2017)
Thesis
Kaur, J. Towards an anthropology of coups in Fiji. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The future of the rural world? India's villages 1950-2015 (2016)
Book
Simpson, E., & Tilche, A. (Eds.). (2016). The future of the rural world? India's villages 1950-2015. SOAS University of London

Exhibition catalogue based on an ESRC-funded project 'restudying' villages in India.

Society and history of Gujarat since 1800: A select bibliography of the English and European language sources (2011)
Book
Simpson, E. (Ed.). (2011). Society and history of Gujarat since 1800: A select bibliography of the English and European language sources. Orient Blackswan

This book consolidates scholarship on Gujarat in English and other European languages, notably, Dutch, German, French, Italian and Portuguese. It draws together well-known sources, as well as rare and under-exploited research material. Detailed bibli... Read More about Society and history of Gujarat since 1800: A select bibliography of the English and European language sources.

The idea of Gujarat: History, ethnography and text (2010)
Book
Simpson, E., & Kapadia, A. (Eds.). (2010). The idea of Gujarat: History, ethnography and text. Orient Blackswan

The emergence of modern Gujarat is a remarkable story, from poorly-defined obscurity to one of the best known regions of India with a powerful diaspora in the passage of less than a century. Today, Gujarat is a clearly defined and bounded political u... Read More about The idea of Gujarat: History, ethnography and text.

The history of Bhuj as told by its own historians (2007)
Book Chapter
Simpson, E., & Kresse, K. (2007). The history of Bhuj as told by its own historians. In E. Simpson (Ed.), Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the western Indian Ocean (93-124). Hurst

Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the western Indian Ocean (2007)
Book
Simpson, E., & Kresse, K. (Eds.). (2007). Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the western Indian Ocean. Hurst and Co

'I am Gulf': the production of cosmopolitanism in Kozhikode, Kerala, India (2007)
Book Chapter
Osella, F., & Osella, C. (2007). 'I am Gulf': the production of cosmopolitanism in Kozhikode, Kerala, India. In E. Simpson, & K. Kresse (Eds.), Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean. Hurst