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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.

Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest (2023)
Book
Rudge, A. (2023). Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest. University of Nebraska Press

Sensing Others explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in Peninsular Malaysia amid the strange and the new in the borderland between protected national park and oil palm plantation. As their ancestral forests disappear around them, Batek people... Read More about Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest.

Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond (2023)
Digital Artefact
Srivastava, S. Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond. [Audio]

How do different groups of men navigate urban life and enact masculinity in the bustling metropolises of contempory Indian society? In this special 30th episode, marking two years of Now and Men, we speak to Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdh... Read More about Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond.

Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile (2023)
Book
Adams, K., & Bloch, N. (Eds.). (2023). Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003182689

This book challenges the classic – and often tacit – compartmentalization of tourism, migration, and refugee studies by exploring the intersections of these forms of spatial mobility: each prompts distinctive images and moral reactions, yet they ofte... Read More about Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile.