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Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence (2024)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (online). Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence. History and Anthropology, 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.

Pure Soul and the Jaina Traditions, Syntax and Experience (2024)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (in press). Pure Soul and the Jaina Traditions, Syntax and Experience. Jaina studies, 19, 16-22

In museums and exhibitions, the Jaina tradition has
generally been presented in stereotyped form. The approach of the Pure Soul exhibition at The Brunei Gallery SOAS was different. For the first time, philosophical and social differences within the... Read More about Pure Soul and the Jaina Traditions, Syntax and Experience.

The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities. In L. W. C. van Lit, & J. H. Morris (Eds.), Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction (157-175). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747607-008

How can the blind spots in Jaina social and intellectual history be investigated in a systematic fashion given the fragmentary nature of the evidence? The idea of a prosopographical database with a sociological focus emerged organically from a SOAS C... Read More about The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities.

Youth, Gender and Climate Resilience: Voices of Adolescent and Young Women in Southern Africa (2022)
Journal Article
Tanner, T., Mazingi, L., & Muyambwa, D. F. (2022). Youth, Gender and Climate Resilience: Voices of Adolescent and Young Women in Southern Africa. Sustainability, 14, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148797

In contrast to the dominant ‘vulnerability narrative’ applied to studies of gender, age, and other intersectional characteristics in determining ifferentiated impacts of climate change, there is growing attention to the agency and voices of young pe... Read More about Youth, Gender and Climate Resilience: Voices of Adolescent and Young Women in Southern Africa.

The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India (2021)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (in press). The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(7), 1380-1396. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1986013

The article analyses the farm laws struggle in India which, at the time of writing (September 2021), has lasted more than a year. It aims to explain its unusually broad support base and to discuss the potential wider impact of the new social coalitio... Read More about The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India.

Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South (2021)
Book
Bahadur, A., & Tanner, T. (2021). Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355066

Drawing on evidence from urban resilience initiatives around the globe, the authors make a compelling argument for a "resilience reset", a pause and stocktake that critically examines the concepts, practices and challenges of building resilience, par... Read More about Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South.

Jaina-Prosopography Database (2021)
Data
Flügel, P., & Krümpelmann, K. (. Jaina-Prosopography Database. [Data]

In the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society. From its region of origin in modern Bihar it spread across most parts of South Asia and beyond. In the process... Read More about Jaina-Prosopography Database.

Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas (2020)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2020). Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas. In S. Pankova, & S. J. Simpson (Eds.), Masters of the Steppe: the Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia. Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017 (639-649). Archaeopress

At the easternmost edge of the Iranic world, settled rather than saddled Scythians ran the kingdom of Khotan as Iranian-speaking Buddhists who traded and tussled with their T’ang and Tibetan neighbours. Straddling the Sino-Tibetan and Irano-Indic oec... Read More about Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas.

The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates (2020)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2020). The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates. In S. Ferrari, & A. Benzo (Eds.), Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage. Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean (25-36). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569109-3

Interview on Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Berghahn, 2018) (2019)
Digital Artefact
HadžiMuhamedović, S., & Kadich, D. Interview on Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Berghahn, 2018). [Streaming audio]

Anthropologist of landscape and religion Safet HadžiMuhamedović, author of WAITING FOR ELIJAH: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Berghahn Books), recently spoke with the NBN's Dino Kadich about topics addressed in the book. Find out more abo... Read More about Interview on Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Berghahn, 2018).

Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia (2019)
Book Chapter
Hammond, L. (2019). Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia. In F. Cheru, C. Cramer, & A. Oqubay (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (269-287). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198814986.013.14

Ethiopia’s borderlands are key sites of population mobility and migration. Not only do these areas host most of the 800,000 refugees who have entered Ethiopia from neighbouring countries, they also are home to populations whose movements are heavily... Read More about Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia.

Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge (2018)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (2019). Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge. Geopolitics, 24(2), 444-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2018.1549035

In this article I read a selection of Pashto literatures as critical thought about geopolitics. Drawing on Michael Shapiro’s concept of aesthetic subjects, as well as on border theory, I argue that the authors, the content, and the literary networks... Read More about Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge.

Photographs from the Exploratory Survey of the Jaina Heritage in Pakistan (2018) (2018)
Digital Artefact
Flügel, P., Muzaffar, A., & Rana, A. M. (2018). Photographs from the Exploratory Survey of the Jaina Heritage in Pakistan (2018). [Website]

In and after 1947, almost the entire, already diminished, Jain community migrated out of newly born Pakistan leaving much of its tangible religious and cultural heritage unprotected while the legacy in form of scriptures, temples, historical monument... Read More about Photographs from the Exploratory Survey of the Jaina Heritage in Pakistan (2018).