Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ (2025)
Journal Article
Sehlikoglu, S., Caron, J., & Polat, A. (2025). Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’. History and Anthropology, 36(3), 403-411. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2025.2460787

This introduction examines the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying imaginative elements in Islamic politics while proposing new frameworks for understanding intangible realms in political formation. Moving beyond traditional approac... Read More about Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’.

Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence (2024)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (2025). Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence. History and Anthropology, 36(3), 435-458. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2435662

Pir Muhammad Karwan’s 2000 poetry collection Da Xāperey Werghowey traces a history of materiality, emotion, and imagination across human-environmental systems as they are militarized over twenty years in Afghanistan. At the same as it is a unique nar... Read More about Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence.