Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to
access essential services in health, education, and social security. This book investigates …

'Who did you write this book for?'a publisher asked us.'Ourselves', we replied with as close
to one voice as possible, given that Doron was in Australia and Jeffrey in Singapore. But it …

In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has
contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in …

In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva—
Hindu right-wing nationalism—to illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and …

Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography
Specialty Group at the AAG Providing important insights into political geography, the politics …

Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit
social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is …

The recent surge of online mobilization among Dalits, who belong to India's most oppressed
caste groups, signals a remarkable trend in Internet activism and political engagement …

WhatsApp and digital private spaces are transforming the quality of lived democracy in India
today. Bringing together STS, geographies of democracy, digital and political anthropology …

This paper takes an alternative approach to understanding theory as description. New
theoretical propositions and knowledge practices need to grow out of the comparisons …

The relationship between journalism and social marginalization is a relatively understudied
area in digital journalism studies. Our case study of Dalit Camera (DC), an online news …