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.

Index to the Jaina-Onomasticon of Johannes Klatt (2023)
Book
Flügel, P., & Krümpelmann, K. (2023). Index to the Jaina-Onomasticon of Johannes Klatt. Harrassowitz

The book offers twenty indexes unlocking the wealth of data on the history of the Jaina tradition embedded in Johannes Klatt's Jaina-Onomasticon. The indexes were created by the authors by cross-referencing the bio-bibliographical information collate... Read More about Index to the Jaina-Onomasticon of Johannes Klatt.

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.

Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul (2023)
Book
El-Kazaz, S. (2023). E. Ault (Ed.), Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478027386

In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid transformations, she reveals how the... Read More about Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul.

Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan (2023)
Journal Article
Mustafa, D., Khan, M. S., De Nardi, H., Caron, J., Naz, A., Shinwari, M., & Gul, A. (2024). Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(2), 498-516. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231203854

Water has been formulated as a resource or a hazard within water resources geography. We propose that reframing of water as hydro-heritage opens up richer analytical possibilities for examining the pluriverses and multiple ontologies that animate gen... Read More about Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan.

Lessons from Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks (2021)
Digital Artefact
Newsham, A., Shonhe, T., & Bvute, T. Lessons from Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks

Hidāyat man ḥārā fī amr al-Naṣāra: The Western Sahara's Missing Witness at the International Court of Justice? (2021)
Journal Article
Blalack, J. S. (2021). Hidāyat man ḥārā fī amr al-Naṣāra: The Western Sahara's Missing Witness at the International Court of Justice?. L'Ouest saharien (Revue. En ligne), 12, 15-32. https://doi.org/10.3917/ousa.202.0015

The disputed Western Sahara is one of many cases where the colonial borders drawn across Africa did not translate into a coherent postcolonial state. Although dozens of legal and historical studies have already analyzed the 1975 International Court o... Read More about Hidāyat man ḥārā fī amr al-Naṣāra: The Western Sahara's Missing Witness at the International Court of Justice?.

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).

Building "Community" and Markets in Contemporary Cairo (2018)
Journal Article
El-Kazaz, S. (2018). Building "Community" and Markets in Contemporary Cairo. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 60(2), 476-505. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417518000129

The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City (2017)
Other
El-Kazaz, S., Mazur, K., Reynolds, N., Crane, S., & Menoret, P. (2017). The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City. Hoboken, NJ

This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de-exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a gene... Read More about The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City.

Introduction to Special Section: The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City (2017)
Journal Article
El-Kazaz, S., & Mazur, K. (2017). Introduction to Special Section: The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City. City & Society, 29(1), 148-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12116

This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de‐exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a gene... Read More about Introduction to Special Section: The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City.

Everyday disasters, stagnation and the normalcy of non-development: Roghun Dam, a flood, and campaigns of forced taxation in southern Tajikistan (2015)
Journal Article
Ibanez-Tirado, D. (2015). Everyday disasters, stagnation and the normalcy of non-development: Roghun Dam, a flood, and campaigns of forced taxation in southern Tajikistan. Central Asian Survey, 34(4), 549-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2015.1091600

This article conducts a comparative analysis of a catastrophic flood that hit the Kulob region of southern Tajikistan in 2010, and the government of Tajikistan's campaign to gather money to build the Roghun dam and hydropower station. It advances the... Read More about Everyday disasters, stagnation and the normalcy of non-development: Roghun Dam, a flood, and campaigns of forced taxation in southern Tajikistan.