South Asia on the Move
Mobilities, Mobilizations, Maneuvers
9789463726498
226 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
This book extends the so-called new mobilities paradigm by focusing such theoretical advances on South Asian scholarship. When it comes to analytical approaches to movement, the intellectual trajectory of mobilities work has been tremendously provocative, particularly in the last fifteen years. However, much of that literature remains deeply rooted in Western/Northern geographies, ontologies, and priorities. This volume pushes beyond those earlier approaches to center South Asia as a critical site through which scholars can advance new theoretical and empirical research, diversify extant mobilities studies, and pose a challenge to Western models. Through a diverse set of interdisciplinary chapters, the collection makes a sustained argument about the value of decentering (im)mobilities research. In so doing, South Asia on the Move redirects the regional, theoretical, and methodological foci of the mobilities turn, demonstrating the relevance of South Asia for thinking about movement within the region and around the world.
Author Bio
Benjamin Linder is an anthropologist and cultural geographer with interests in transnational mobilities, cultural transformation, and urban place-making in Nepal. He serves as the Coordinator for Public and Engaged Scholarship at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Tarini Bedi is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Program Director for Cultural Anthropology at the National Science Foundation (USA). Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of urban, political, and economic anthropology, environment and ecology, anthropology of infrastructure and mobilities, cultural geography, science and technology studies, and gender studies. She is the author of two published books, The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena: Political Matronage in Urbanizing India (SUNY Press, 2016) and Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India (University of Washington Press, 2022).
