Thomas Hansen
Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor
Anthropology
Bio
Thomas Hansen is the Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Anthropology. He founded and directed Stanford’s Center for South Asia from 2010 to 2017.
Hansen is an anthropologist of political life, ethno-religious identities, violence and urban life in South Asia and Southern Africa. He has multiple theoretical and disciplinary interests from political theory and continental philosophy to psychoanalysis, comparative religion and contemporary urbanism.
Much of professor Hansen’s early fieldwork was done during the tumultuous and tense years in the beginning of the 1990s when conflicts between Hindu militants and Muslims defined national agendas and produced frequent violent clashes in the streets. Out of this work came two books: The Saffron Wave. Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India (Princeton 1999) which explores the larger phenomenon of Hindu nationalism in the light of the dynamics of India’s democratic experience, and Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay (Princeton 2001) which explores the historical processes and identity formations that gave rise of violent socioreligious conflict and the renaming of the city in 1995.
In the early 2000s, professor Hansen pursued a detailed study of religious revival, racial conflict and transformation of domestic and intimate life from the 1950’s to the present in a formerly Indian township in Durban, South Africa. This resulted in a book entitled Melancholia of Freedom. Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa (Princeton University Press, 2012).
In addition to these ethnographic engagements, professor Hansen has pursued a number of theoretical interests in the anthropology of the state, sovereignty, modern convictions, religion, violence and urban life in the Global South.
Hansen is currently finishing a book on the global spread of notions of popular sovereignty and the rise of illiberal democracy. He is also engaged in a long term historical and ethnographic investigation of ‘vernacular urbanism’, that is, the dynamics of social segregation and community-based capitalism in the fast-growing provincial cities across South Asia.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Anthropology
Administrative Appointments
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Chair, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University (2018 - Present)
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Guest professor at the Global South Asia Program, University of Copenhagen (2012 - 2012)
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Senior Visiting Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology and South Asia Institute, Columbia University (2009 - 2010)
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Dean of the International School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam (2008 - 2008)
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Director of the Graduate School in Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam (2008 - 2008)
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Lichtstern Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. (2007 - 2007)
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Senior Visiting Research Fellow, WISER, University of the Witwatersrand (2006 - Present)
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Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam (2006 - 2010)
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Senior Research Scientist, Department of Anthropology, Yale University (2006 - 2008)
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Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale (EHESS) in Paris (2005 - 2005)
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Visiting Professor, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh (2004 - 2007)
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Chair of the South Asia Council, The Yale Center for International and Area Studies (2004 - 2006)
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Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Yale University (2004 - 2006)
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Professor of Political Anthropology, Department. of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh (2003 - 2004)
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Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, University of Bristol (2001 - 2001)
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Reader, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh (2000 - 2003)
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Senior Researcher, Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen (2000 - 2000)
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Visiting Fellow, University of Natal (1998 - 1999)
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Visiting Scholar, Department of History, University of Natal, Durban (1998 - 1999)
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Associate Professor of International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1997 - 2000)
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Assistant Professor, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1994 - 1997)
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Visiting Scholar, Tata Institute of Social Science and Bombay University (1992 - 1993)
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PhD-candidate, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1990 - 1994)
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Teaching Assistant, International Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark (1989 - 1991)
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Research Assistant, International Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark (1987 - 1988)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Chair, Global Academic Advisory Board at Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan (2017 - Present)
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Member, Institutional Development project for Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2017 - Present)
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Member, London School of Economics and Political Science, External Review Board (2017 - 2017)
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Member, International Evaluation Committee of Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, Copenhagen (2015 - 2015)
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Editor, “South Asia in Motion” book series, Stanford University Press (2014 - 2014)
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Chair of the Graduate Committee, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University (2013 - 2015)
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Chair of the External Review Committee, reviewing the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University (2013 - 2013)
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Member, Editorial Board, Stanford University Press (2012 - Present)
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Chair of the Curriculum Committee, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University (2012 - 2013)
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Member of the Center for Urban Studies, Stanford University (2011 - Present)
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Chair of the Graduate Admission Committee, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University (2011 - 2012)
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External reviewer of Faculty Fellowships, Humanities Institute, University of Michigan (2011 - 2012)
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Member of professorial appointment committee, Faculty of Social Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2011 - 2012)
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Member of selection committee, CCSRE External fellowships (2011 - 2012)
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External expert (promotions and appointments), Department of Anthropology, Stockholm University (2010 - Present)
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Member of the Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University (2010 - Present)
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Member of the advisory Board, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University (2010 - Present)
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Member of Search committee, Socio-cultural anthropology at Stanford University (2010 - 2011)
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Appointed member, International panel evaluating anthropological training and research in Norway. (2010 - 2010)
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Founding Director, Center for South Asian Studies, Stanford University (2010 - 2010)
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Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam (2008 - Present)
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External Examiner, Asian Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark (2008 - Present)
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External Expert, (promotions and appointments), London School of Economics and Political Science (2008 - Present)
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External expert (promotions and appointments), Dept of Asian and South Asian Studies and Dept of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. (2008 - Present)
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Member, Board of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden (2008 - 2010)
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Dean of the International School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam (2008 - 2009)
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Coordinator, “Sister City Project” sponsored by the Society for the Study of Transnational Culture (2006 - 2010)
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Director of the research cluster, ‘Religion and identity in a transnational perspective’ at the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research (2006 - 2010)
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Program director, Research Master ‘s in Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam (2006 - 2009)
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Member, Editorial collective behind the journal Public Culture (2005 - Present)
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Member, Society for the Study of Transnational Culture, sponsor of the journal Public Culture (2005 - 2009)
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Site-coordinator in South Africa for the international research project, “The Religious Lives of Migrants” funded by SSRC (New York) and the Ford Foundation. (2005 - 2009)
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Member of the board, New interdisciplinary ethnography Journal IF: Interview Forum based at Harvard University (2004 - Present)
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Chair of The South Asia Studies Council, Yale Center for International and Area Studies (2004 - 2006)
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Member, Social Science Research Council initiative on Religion and Migration. (2004 - 2006)
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Member, Research network on ‘Imagining Politics’, and interdisciplinary network of scholars from CERI (2003 - 2008)
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Visiting Examiner, Dept. of Social Anthropology. Goldsmiths College, London (2003 - 2005)
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Honors Course organizer, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh (2003 - 2004)
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Member, task force undertaking a thorough evaluation of all Social Anthropology departments at Swedish universities, National Agency for Higher Education in Sweden (2003 - 2003)
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Postgraduate convener, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh (2002 - 2004)
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4th year course organizer, International Development Studies, Roskilde (1999 - 1999)
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In charge of post graduate seminar (MA and MSc), International Development Studies (1999 - 1999)
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3rd year course organizer, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1997 - 1997)
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4th year course organizer, International Development Studies, Roskilde (1997 - 1997)
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In charge of post graduate seminar (MA and MSc), International Development Studies (1997 - 1997)
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Key Member and Initiator, Research program ‘Livelihood, Identity and Organization in Situations of Instability' (1996 - 2000)
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3rd year course organizer, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1995 - 1995)
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Participant in the comprehensive ENRECA research cooperation program, Center for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta and Center for Basic Research, Kampala and Roskilde University (1994 - 2000)
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Book Reviews Editor, European Journal of Development Research (1994 - 1996)
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3rd year course organizer, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1994 - 1994)
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Member, Editorial Committee of GRUS (1988 - 1996)
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Member, Association for Asian Studies
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Member, Association of Social Anthropologists (UK)
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Member, American Anthropological Association
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Reviewer, Columbia University Press
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Reviewer, Modern Asian Studies
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Reviewer, European Journal of Development Research
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Reviewer, Stanford University Press
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Reviewer, Indiana University Press
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Reviewer, Berg Publishers
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Reviewer, University of California Press
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Reviewer, Critique of Anthropology
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Reviewer, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Reviewer, University of Chicago Press
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Reviewer, Nations and Nationalism
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Reviewer, Ethnos Journal
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Reviewer, Journal of Asian Studies
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Reviewer, Contemporary South Asia
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Reviewer, Minnesota University Press
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Reviewer, University of Michigan Press
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Reviewer, American Ethnologist
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Reviewer, South Asia
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Reviewer, Cambridge University Press
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Reviewer, Routledge
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Reviewer, Princeton University Press
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Reviewer, Cultural Anthropology,
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Reviewer, Duke University Press
Program Affiliations
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Center for Latin American Studies
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Modern Thought and Literature
Professional Education
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Dr. Phil., Roskilde University, Denmark, Habilitation in the social sciences (1997)
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Doctoral program, Roskilde University, Denmark Roskilde, International Development Studies (1993)
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MA., Department of Political Science, Aalborg University, Denmark, Political Theory (1989)
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MA, Center for International Studies, Aalborg University, International Studies (1988)
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BA, Aalborg University, Denmark, Sociology (1986)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Anthropology of political life, ethno-religious identities, violence and urban life in South Asia and Southern Africa. Multiple theoretical and disciplinary interests from political theory and continental philosophy to psychoanalysis, comparative religion and contemporary urbanism
2024-25 Courses
- Anthropology Colloquium
ANTHRO 444 (Win, Spr) - Anthropology Lunch Talk Series
ANTHRO 445 (Win, Spr) -
Independent Studies (15)
- Directed Individual Reading in Anthropology
ANTHRO 454 (Aut, Win) - Directed Individual Study
ANTHRO 96 (Aut, Win) - Directed Individual Study for Anthropologists
ANTHRO 451 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Reading
URBANST 197 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Graduate Internship
ANTHRO 452 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Teaching
ANTHRO 440 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Study for Honors or Senior Paper Writing
ANTHRO 95B (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Internship in Anthropology
ANTHRO 97 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Master's Project
ANTHRO 441 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Qualifying Exam Preparation in Anthropology
ANTHRO 455 (Aut, Win) - Qualifying Examination: Area
ANTHRO 401B (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Qualifying Examination: Topic
ANTHRO 401A (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Research Apprenticeship
ANTHRO 450 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Research in Anthropology
ANTHRO 95 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Honors Thesis
URBANST 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Directed Individual Reading in Anthropology
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Anthropology Colloquium
ANTHRO 444 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Anthropology Lunch Talk Series
ANTHRO 445 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Dissertation Writers Workshop
ANTHRO 400 (Win) - Foundations of Social Theory
ANTHRO 301A (Win) - Introduction to Culture and Society Graduate Studies in Anthropology
ANTHRO 311G (Win, Spr) - Introduction to Graduate Studies
ANTHRO 310G (Aut) - Marxism and Dravidian Politics
ANTHRO 11SI (Aut) - Urban Culture in Global Perspective
ANTHRO 126, URBANST 114 (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- Anthropology Brown Bag Series
ANTHRO 445 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Anthropology Colloquium
ANTHRO 444 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Introduction to Culture and Society Graduate Studies in Anthropology
ANTHRO 311G (Win, Spr) - Introduction to Graduate Studies
ANTHRO 310G (Aut) - Proposal Writing Seminar in Cultural and Social Anthropology
ANTHRO 308 (Spr) - Urban Culture in Global Perspective
ANTHRO 126, URBANST 114 (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Anthropology Brown Bag Series
ANTHRO 445 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Anthropology Colloquium
ANTHRO 444 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Foundations of Social Theory
ANTHRO 301A (Win) - Introduction to Culture and Society Graduate Studies in Anthropology
ANTHRO 311G (Win, Spr) - Introduction to Graduate Studies
ANTHRO 310G (Aut) - Reading Group
ANTHRO 442 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Reimagining Democracy: Social Mobilization in Indian Elections
ANTHRO 10SI (Spr) - Urban Culture in Global Perspective
ANTHRO 126, URBANST 114 (Aut)
- Anthropology Colloquium
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Noor Amr, Paras Arora, Alisha Cherian, Venolia Rabodiba, Alexa Russo -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Ronald Chen, Byron Gray, Aaron Hopes, Saad Lakhani, Shikha Nehra, Esteban Salmon Perrilliat, Isabel Salovaara, Utsavi Singh -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Shubhangni Gupta, Shantanu Nevrekar -
Master's Program Advisor
shandana waheed -
Doctoral (Program)
Ronald Chen, Byron Gray, Aaron Hopes, Saad Lakhani, Richard McGrail, Shikha Nehra, Shantanu Nevrekar, Poornima Rajeshwar, Esteban Salmon Perrilliat, Isabel Salovaara, Chen Shen, Shan Yang, shandana waheed
All Publications
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Expelled from public memory: Cato Manor and the segregation of memory in South Africa
HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
2023
View details for DOI 10.1080/02757206.2023.2275789
View details for Web of Science ID 001091427000001
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Real abstractions: Markets, moralities, and social segmentation in modern India
MODERN ASIAN STUDIES
2023
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0026749X23000045
View details for Web of Science ID 001011155200001
- When the Past is Tense: a democratic history of monuments in an Indian city State of Democracy in India: Essays on Life and Politics in Contemporary Times edited by Ray, M. Delhi: Primus Books. 2022; 1: 110-137
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Social Segregation and Everyday Hindutva in Middle India
Saffron Republic. Hindu Nationalism and State Power in India
edited by Hansen, T. B.
Cambridge University Press. 2022: 158-180
View details for DOI https://doi-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781009118873
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Saffron Republic. Hindu Nationalism and State Power in India
Metamorphoses of the Political
edited by Hansen, T. B., Roy, S.
Cambridge University Press. 2022
View details for DOI 10.1017/9781009118873
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A history of distributed sovereignty. Trade, migration and rule in the Indian Ocean world
Beyond Liberal Order. States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean
edited by Lieven, A., Verhoeven, H.
London: Hurst and Co. . 2021: 41-65
View details for DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197647950.003.0002
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Sovereignty in a Minor Key
PUBLIC CULTURE
2021; 33 (1): 41-+
View details for DOI 10.1215/08992363-8742160
View details for Web of Science ID 000660994600006
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The Force of Symbolic Power
COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF SOUTH ASIA AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
2020; 40 (3): 488–93
View details for DOI 10.1215/1089201X-8747469
View details for Web of Science ID 000604652600012
- Democracy against the Law. Reflections on India’s Illiberal Democracy Majoritarian State. How Hindu nationalism is changing India London: D Hurst and Co.. 2019
- Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India edited by Hanson, T., Jaffrelot, C., Chatterji, A. London: Hurst and Co.. 2019
- Introduction Majoritarian State. How Hindu nationalism is changing India London: D Hurst and Co.. 2019
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Civics, civility and race in post-apartheid South Africa
ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
2018; 18 (2-3): 296–325
View details for DOI 10.1177/1463499618773663
View details for Web of Science ID 000445712600007
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Whose Public, Whose Authority? Reflections on the moral force of violence
MODERN ASIAN STUDIES
2018; 52 (3): 1076–87
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0026749X17000282
View details for Web of Science ID 000438520800011
- The state as an object of ethnographic inquiry Contributions to Indian Sociology, Special 50th Anniversary Issue. Sage: Delhi 2018
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Aesthetics of arrival: spectacle, capital, novelty in post-reform India
IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER
2016; 23 (3): 265-275
View details for DOI 10.1080/1070289X.2015.1034135
View details for Web of Science ID 000372410500001
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Migration, religion and post-imperial formations
GLOBAL NETWORKS-A JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL AFFAIRS
2014; 14 (3): 273-290
View details for DOI 10.1111/glob.12059
View details for Web of Science ID 000337589700002
- On narrative authority in the global cultural economy Anthropology Now and Next: Diversity, Connections, Confrontations, Reflexivity edited by Garsten, C. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2014
- Religion A Companion to Urban Anthropology edited by Nonini, D. London: John Wiley and Sons . 2014: Pp. 364–380
- Secular Speech, Popular passion and Public Order in modern India Contesting Secularism edited by Sorensen, A. B. London: Ashgate Publishing. 2013: 207–231
- Rethinking the city. Neighbors, strangers and public life in urban India Modernity and Citizenship: Challenges of Building Democratic India edited by Surinder, J. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2013
- Melancholia of Freedom. Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa Princeton University Press. 2012
- From Houses to Barbed Wire: on Houses and Walls in South Africa Texas International Law Journal 2011; 47: 345-353
- Secular Speech and Popular Passion. Antinomies of Indian Secularism The Law and the Secular/Sacred Divide. edited by Sullivan, W., Taussig, M. Stanford University Press. 2011: 261–281
- The Political Theology of Violence in Modern India SAMAJ-Revue (on-line academic journal of South Asian studies edited in Paris) 2009
- The Unwieldy Fetish. Desire and Disavowal of Indianness in South Africa Eyes Across the Water edited by Gupta, P., Hofmeyr, I. Pretoria: UNISA Press. 2009
- In Search of God’s Hand. Masculinity and Religion Piety and Gender. Comparative Perspectives edited by Sjoerup, L., Roemer, C. H. Brill: Leiden. 2009
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Introduction: Portable Spirits and Itinerant People: Religion and Migration in South Africa in a Comparative Perspective
AFRICAN STUDIES
2009; 68 (2): 187-196
View details for DOI 10.1080/00020180903109565
View details for Web of Science ID 000269390100001
- Anthropologists and other interpreters in the global cultural economy Antropologie in een zee van verhalen edited by Sunier, T. Amsterdam: Aksant. 2009
- Cool Passions: The Political Theology of Modern Convictions University of Amsterdam Press. 2009
- Reflections on Salman Rushdie’s Bombay Midnight’s Diaspora. Critical Encounters with Salman Rushdie including a response from the author. edited by Herwitz, D., Varshney, A. University of Michigan Press. 2008
- Race, Security and Racial Anxieties in the Post-apartheid City Gender and Urban Space edited by Rieker, M. London: Palgrave. 2008
- Javeedbhai Muslim Portraits edited by Banerjee, M. Penguin (London and Delhi). 2008
- On the Difficulties of being Hindu WISER review on Reasons of Faith 2007
- The India that does not Shine ISIM Review 2007
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Performers of sovereignty - On the privatization of security in urban South Africa
CRITIQUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY
2006; 26 (3): 279-295
View details for DOI 10.1177/0308275X06066583
View details for Web of Science ID 000240499700003
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Sounds of freedom: Music, taxis, and racial imagination in urban South Africa
PUBLIC CULTURE
2006; 18 (1): 185-208
View details for Web of Science ID 000235350600012
- Where names Fall Short: Naming and Forgetting in contemporary South Africa The Anthropology of Naming edited by Bodenhorn, B., Bruck, G. V. Cambridge University Press.. 2006
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Sovereignty revisited
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANTHROPOLOGY
2006; 35: 295-315
View details for DOI 10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123317
View details for Web of Science ID 000242032900016
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Melancholia of freedom: Humour and nostalgia among Indians in South Africa
MODERN DRAMA
2005; 48 (2): 297-315
View details for Web of Science ID 000231293700004
- Sovereigns beyond the State. On Legality and Authority in Urban India Religion, Violence and Political Mobilization in South Asia edited by kaur, R. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2005
- Between Autochthony and Diaspora. Indians in the ‘New’ South Africa Dislocating Nation States edited by Tanabe , . Kyoto University Press/ Trans Pacific Press (Melbourne). 2005
- Sovereigns beyond the State. On Legality and Authority in Urban India Religion, Violence and Political Mobilization in South Asia edited by Kaur, R. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2005
- Sovereign Bodies. Citizens, Migrants and States in the Postcolonial World edited by Hansen, T., Stepputat, F. Princeton University Press.. 2005
- In Search of the Diasporic Self: Bollywood in South Africa Bollyworld edited by Kaur, R., Sinha, A. 2005
- Between Autochthony and Diaspora. Indians in the ‘New South Africa' Dislocating Nation States edited by Tanabe, A. Kyoto University Press/ Trans Pacific Press (Melbourne). 2005
- Sovereigns beyond the State. On Legality and Authority in Urban India Sovereign Bodies edited by Hansen, T. B., Stepputat, F. Princeton University Press. 2005
- BJP and the Compulsions of Politics Hindi Nationalism and Indian Politics edited by Hensen, T. 2004
- The Saffron Wage: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics edited by Mehta, P. B. Oxford University Press. 2004
- The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India Oxford University Press. 2004
- Politics as Permanent Performance: on the production of authority in the locality De-centering the Nation: Politics and Cultural Mobilisation in Contemporary India edited by Wyatt, A., Zavos, J. Sage Publications. 2003
- Review Essay: “Politics by Other Means – a review of The Production of Hindu – Muslim Violence" IIAS Newsletter 2003
- Souveraene jenseits des Staates Berliner Debatte Initial 2003: 18-28
- The Ironies of History. A response to Parvati Raman HIMAL 2003: 3 - 6
- Diasporic Dispositions HIMAL 2002: 12 - 20
- After the Excess: race, racism and reconciliation in contemporary South Africa Discrimination and Toleration edited by hastrup, K., Ullrich, G. Amsterdam, Kluwer Press. 2002
- Urban Violence in India: Identity Politics, Mumbai, and the Postcolonial City Permanent Black. 2001
- BJP and the Compulsions of Politics edited by Hensen, T. 2001
- Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in the Postcolonial Bombay Princeton University Press. 2001
- States of Imagination. An Introduction States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State edited by Hansen, T. B., Steppulat, D. F. Duke University Press.. 2001
- Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai States of Imagination. Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State. Durham: Duke University Press. 2001
- Plays and Politics: Politics and Cultural Identity among South African Indians Afriche e Orienti 2001; 3: 40-48
- Predicaments of Secularism: Muslim Identities in Mumbai Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2000; 6 (2)
- Plays and Politics: Politics and Cultural Identity among South African Indians Journal of Southern African Studies 2000; 2 (2)
- Bridging the Gulf: Migration and Modernity among Muslims in Mumbai Empire, Migration, Community edited by Bates, C. London, Macmillan. 2000
- Governance and Myths of State in Mumbai The Everyday State in India edited by Benei, V., Fuller, C. J. Delhi, Social Science Press. 2000
- Predicaments of Secularism: Muslim Identities in Mumbai Urban Culture and Democracy: Politics in the City 2000: 16-37
- The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India Princeton University Press. 1999
- Compulsions of Politics. BJP and Competitive Politics in India, Delhi Oxford University Press. 1998
- The Ethics of Hindutva and the Spirit of Capitalism Compulsions of Politics. BJP and Competitive Politics in India edited by Hansen, T. B. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1998
- ‘Store faser, små historier: om fase teoriens skæbne i udviklingsforskningen’(in Danish) (Big phases, small stories: on the theory of phases within development research’), Den Ny Verden 1998; 30 (3)
- Compulsions of Politics. BJP and Competitive Politics in India, Delhi Oxford University Press. 1998
- BJP and the Compulsions of Politics edited by Hansen, T. 1998
- BJP and the Politics of Hindutva in Maharashtra Compulsions of Politics. BJP and Competitive Politics in India edited by Hansen, T. B., Jaffrelot, C. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1998
- Introduction Compulsions of Politics. BJP and Competitive Politics in India edited by Hansen, T. B., Jaffrelot, C. Delhi, Oxford University Press. 1998
- Rams Krigere. Religion, nation og politik i Indien Den Ny Verden 1997; 30 (1): 106-122
- Inside the Romanticist Episteme Thesis Eleven 1997; 48
- Drømmen om Indien - forestillinger om den indiske nation 1857 -1930 Den Jyske Historiker, Special issue on India 1997: 26
- Indiens langsomme revolutioner Den Jyske Historiker 1997
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The vernacularisation of Hindutva: The BJP and Shiv Sena in rural Maharashtra
13th European Conference on South Asian Studies
SAGE PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD. 1996: 177–214
View details for Web of Science ID A1996WM11300001
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Recuperating masculinity - Hindu nationalism, violence and the exorcism of the Muslim 'Other'
Conference on Comparative Approaches to National Identities in Asia
SAGE SCIENCE PRESS. 1996: 137–72
View details for Web of Science ID A1996UL45600003
- Becoming a Light Onto Itself - Nationalist Imaginings in the Age of Globalisation Economic and Political Weekly 1996; 3: 603 - 615
- Rams Krigere. Religion, nation og politik i Indien Religion 1996; 4 (96)
- Inside the Romanticist Episteme Social Scientist 1996
- Review of Christophe Jaffrelot: “The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India” Nations and Nationalism 1996
- Inside the Romanticist Episteme Occasional Paper 1995
- Controlled Emancipation : Women and Hindu nationalism Ethnicity, Gender and the Subversion of Nationalism edited by Wilson, F., Frederiksen, B. F. 1994
- Controlled Emancipation : Women and Hindu nationalism European Journal of Development Research 1994; 6
- Making sense of Weber: Secularisation and legitimacy in Indian politics The Theoretical Heritage from Marx and Weber in Development Studies, Occasional Paper 1994; 10: 167 - 199
- Den vrede hindu : Kulturel mobilisering i den globale modernitet GRUS 1993; 41 (14): 50 - 66
- RSS and the Popularisation of Hindutva Economic and Political Weekly 1993: 2270-2272
- RSS and the Popularisation of Hindutva Economic and Political Weekly 1993: 2270-2272
- Sekularisering, religion og ideologi i den moderne verden GRUS 1992; 38 (13)
- Religion and Ideology in Hindu nationalist Discourse Working Paper 1992
- Protest. frigørelse eller manipulation - om studiet af sociale og politiske bevægelser i den tredie verden Den Ny Verden 1991; 24
- From Regionalism to Nationalism: Hindu nationalism in Maharashtra NASA-proceedings 1991
- Nationalismen som socialismens højeste stadium GRUS 1990; 11 (30)
- Political Culture and Hegemony - towards a theoretical understanding GRUS 1988; 9 (26): 15