A Book Discussion On the War on Tenure with Deepa Das Acevedo
Deepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist and Associate Professor of Law at Emory University. Her book, The War on…
Asli & Nakli: Paper Reality and Precarious Bodies in India – Anamta Husain
Borders are a defining element of the modern state. As markers of territorial sovereignty, they have foregrounded the idea of…
Legality, Precarity, and Lost Childhoods: A Story on Mica-Mining in Jharkhand – Madhubanti Talukdar
The children of Jharkhand, when not collecting ‘dhibra’[i] with the elders, go to school, or play, at the foothills of…
Understanding Mobility, Social Instability and Insecurity through Theories of Urbanism – Kirti Koushika
Introduction Urbanisation is a widespread phenomenon in contemporary times. In countries such as India and elsewhere in the Global South…
Between the Descriptive and the Analytical: Precarity to Precarious – Gayatri Nair
It seems almost opportune to think about the concept of ‘precarity’ when we are in the throes of a pandemic.…
Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora (2021) by Kavita Daiya: A Review by Aatina Nasir Malik
Graphic Migrations written by Kavita Daiya and published by Yoda Press, examines the 1947 Partition through the frame of the…