Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic
challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of …

Addressing life in borders and refugee camps requires understanding the way these spaces
are ruled, the kinds of problems rule poses for the people who live there, and the abilities of …

This introduction to a special section exploring" Geographies at the Margins" of South Asia
offers a discussion that links the literature on borders and margins to the regional …

This essay questions the analytic and political project of 'food sovereignty'by looking at class-
differentiated responses to ecological crisis in two markedly different polders (embanked …

Research assistants have long been central to ethnographic practice, yet the conventions of
academic labor have left their roles under-stated and obscure. The implications, we opine …

This paper makes a methodological and political intervention in debates over microcredit. It
explores outcomes of microcredit interventions in the lives of residents of Arampur, a village …

Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia
Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader …

This article develops an anthropology of chokepoints: sites that constrict or 'choke'the flows
of resources, information, and bodies upon which contemporary life depends. We argue that …

This essay interrogates an emergent genre of development projects that seek to instill
resilience in populations likely to be severely impacted by climate change. These new …

This paper explores the politics of community making at the India–Bangladesh border by
examining the public and private narratives of history and belonging in a Bangladeshi …