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Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary South Asia is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-12-01 to 2023-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital inclusion challenges in Bangladesh: the case of the National ICT Policy	31
The politics of vishwas: political mobilization in the 2019 national election	25
A new party system or a new political system?	21
The BJP’s 2019 election campaign: not business as usual	15
Exposure of mobile phones and mass media in maternal health services use in developing nations: evidence from Urban Health Survey 2013 of Bangladesh	12
Communal realignment and support for the BJP, 2009–2019	11
The hydro-social dynamics of exclusion and water insecurity of Dalits in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: fluid yet unchanging	10
Buddha and Nilima: the city after communism	9
The reconfiguration of India’s political elite: profiling the 17th Lok Sabha	8
Women candidates, women voters, and the gender politics of India’s 2019 parliamentary election	8
Public sector employment, class mobility, and differentiation in a tribal coal mining village in India	8
The specter of hate and intolerance: sectarian-jihadi nexus and the persecution of Hazara Shia community in Pakistan	7
Understanding the decline of regional party power in the 2019 national election and beyond	6
Whose border is it anyway? Control, contestation, and confluence in Indo-Myanmar borderlands	5
Claiming crisis: narratives of tension and insurance in rural India	5
Students, movements, and the threat to authoritarianism in Bangladesh	5
Marginal gains: borderland dynamics, political settlements, and shifting centre-periphery relations in post-war Nepal	4
Women’s struggles over religion and citizenship in contemporary India	4
‘New’ terrains of precarity – gig work in India	4
Transnational land and property disputes: the British-Bangladeshi experience	4
Pakistan caught between Iran and Saudi Arabia	4
The caste question in West Bengal politics: continuing inconsequentiality or rising relevance?	3
Introduction: Calcutta characters	3
A permanent cordon sanitaire: intra-village spatial segregation and social distance in India	3
The prospects of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): the importance of understanding western China	2

Muslim Woman/Muslim women: lived experiences beyond religion and gender in South Asia and its diasporas	2
Gendering the everyday state: Muslim women, claim-making & brokerage in India	2
Ayodhya 2.0 in Banaras? Judicial discourses and rituals of place in the making of Hindu majoritarianism	2
Migration, patriarchy and ‘modern’ Islam: views from left behind wives in rural northern Bangladesh	2
Joyraj and Debanuj: queer(y)ing the city	2
The Indian military and environmental affairs: an analysis through the lens of military change	2
Relational approaches to poverty in rural India: social, ecological and technical dynamics	2
Living religions across transnational spaces: experiences of South Asian American Hindu and Muslim women	2
Gift of a temple: socio-economic and cultural changes around diasporic engagement in Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka	2
‘Give me the space to live’: trauma, casted land and the search for restitution among the Meghwal survivors of the Dangawas massacre	2
Securing health care within a ‘magical’ state: the construction of eligibility in India	2
Social mobility and politicisation of caste among the Rayeens of Uttar Pradesh	2
Dr. John Matthai (1886–1959): between ‘Bombay Plan’ and ‘Planning Commission’	2
Managing mobility: commuting domestic workers, mobile phones, and women’s ‘honour’ in Kolkata	2
Courting agency: gender and divorce in an English sharia council	1
The changing shape of the Indian recorded music industry in the age of platformisation	1
After compliance in India and beyond: a theory of implementation dilemmas and comparative institutional analysis	1
Capsizing the gaze: gender non-conforming communities as monitorial citizens	1
The shape of the Sangh: rethinking Hindu nationalist organisational ties	1
A study of risk perception of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure from mobile phones and base stations in India	1
The political life of Muslim caste: articulations and frictions within a Pasmanda identity	1
Women and South Asian Hinduism and Islam: in the subcontinent and the diaspora	1
Anjuman, jami‘at, and association: what Sayyid organizations tell us about associational forms among Muslim caste groups	1
Social media as online archives: inserting religious identities within educational spaces in India	1
Institutional initiatives towards expanding democracy: the Election Commission of India and electoral mobilisation	1
After cyclone Aila: politics of climate change in Sundarbans	1
Organising the Sheikh sanitation workers in Srinagar: from the politics of dignity to Pasmanda activism?	1
A song for Jains or a song for India: contesting narratives during the COVID-19 crisis	1
Thana-katcheri politics	1
India and maritime governance in the Indian ocean: the impact of geopolitics on India’s involvement in maritime governance	1
Thief plates: the mediation of extortion in the rickshaw business in Dhaka, Bangladesh	1
Rural decentralization and infant mortality among select Indian states: a preliminary analysis	1
Kinship as a ‘public fiction’. Substance and emptiness in South Indian inter-caste and inter-religious families	1
Poetics and politics of post-partition cultural memories in Kamila Shamsie’sKartography	1
Networks, space and belonging: the Marwaris in Manipur	1
Marketing affect: mapping the centredness of the election campaign through a comparison of party strategies in the Delhi assembly elections	1
Afterword: questions for the study of Muslim castes and anti-caste Islam	1
‘A mobile phone is like a friendship. It depends from person to person how it is used': mobile phone relationships among low-income women in urban Bangladesh	1
The village revisited	1
Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy	1
Why Muslims join the Muslim wing of the RSS	1
Producing multiple ‘others’: spatial upheaval and Hindutva politics in urban India	1
Shyamoli and the unknown male: the city’s violent margins	1
Kinship as fiction: exploring the dynamism of intimate relationships in South Asia	1
When pastoralists urbanize: Intersecting spatiotemporalities of small town Himalaya	1
Seeking certainty, security and spirituality: religious conditioning and everyday aspirations amongst female university students in Bangladesh	1
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East	1
Asserting caste? Bhishti sanitation workers and Muslim caste associations in Jaipur	1
Pakistan’s grand strategy: the poverty of imagination	1
Old imaginaries in a new frame: the politics of Bollywood’s ‘social problem films’ on Kashmir	1

Reimagining familial relationships: intimate networks and kinship practices in Odisha, India	1
Caste and two types of status. Comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today	1
The Ayodhya case, freedom of religion, and the making of modernist ‘Hinduism’	1
Identifying ‘authorized users’, identifying kin: negotiating relational worlds through Geographical Indications registration	1
Where does hybridity originate? Interfacing between local and international actors in Sri Lankan postconflict peacebuilding	0
South Asian regionalism: the limits of cooperation	0
Independence & accountability of the Indian higher judiciary	0
The politics of love in Myanmar: LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life	0
Political violence in South Asia	0
Books Available for Review	0
How India became territorial: foreign policy, diaspora, geopolitics	0
The next billion users: Digital life beyond the West	0
Books available for review	0
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic marriage law and the making of Indian secularism	0
Holy science: the biopolitics of Hindu nationalism	0
Risk and the rupee in Pakistan’s new economy	0
Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians Narratives from India and Beyond	0
Correction	0
Misters Mukharji and Kathotia: the economies of the city	0
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni	0
Spatializing popular Sufi shrines in Punjab: dreams, memories, territoriality	0
Imagined and unimagined relatedness: a child of ‘one’s own’ in third-party reproduction in India	0
Village ties: women, NGOs, and informal institutions in rural Bangladesh	0
Role of anti-/pro-public sector bias in shaping perceived performance and fairness: an experimental exploration in South Asia	0
Development, Neoliberalism, and Islamism in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh	0
Books Available for Review	0
A preliminary review of India’s rural economic crisis: stagnant wages, piling debt and waning demand	0
The Politics of love in Myanmar: LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life	0
Introduction to the BASAS 2019 special section	0
Audio-visual piracy on Telegram: a perspective on monetization models, pirate strategies and industrial pathways	0
The Outsiders Within: A Dalit Feminist Standpoint in the Life Narratives of Dalit Women The Outsiders Within: A Dalit Feminist Standpoint in the Life Narratives of Dalit Women	0
Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India	0
Channelling compassion towards change: elite volunteerism, corporate philanthropy and education reform in urban India	0
A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India	0
Books Available for Review	0
Vote blocs and clientelism	0
Agency in a quake in time: a study of jokes about the future among Pakistani migrant youth	0
Kashmir at the crossroads: inside a 21st-century conflict	0
Pour une autre idée du Pakistan: nationalisme et construction identitaire dans le Sindh	0
Masculinity and modern slavery in Nepal	0
Popular geopolitics of ‘nuclear India’: tracing the evolution of India’s ‘regional’ and ‘global’ identities in the English daily The Hindu from 2011–2020	0
Mother cow, mother India, a multispecies politics of dairy in India Mother cow, mother India, a multispecies politics of dairy in India , by Yamini Narayanan, Stanford,	0
Dynastic dilemma in South Asia: influence, networks and shamefacedness	0
Transition in Afghanistan: hope, despair and the limits of statebuilding	0
Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship	0
The final straw? Bhola cyclone, 1970 election, disaster politics, and the making of Bangladesh	0
The university as a site of resistance: identity and student politics	0
Surrender, rehabilitation and hybrid regimes: the making of the northeast frontier	0
Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India	0
Urban development and environmental history in Modern South Asia	0
Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism , edited by Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, x	0
Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India	0
India and Africa in the pandemic imagination	0
Books available for review	0
Whither utopia?	0
Simultaneous identities: language, education and the Nepali nation	0
Markets, capitalism and urban space in India: right to sell	0
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh	0
Substantial relations: making global reproductive medicine in postcolonial India	0
From ‘house of horrors’ to ‘sensitive’ governance: sex workers’ shelter detention in India	0
At the limits of cure	0
The ethics of staying: social movements and land rights politics in Pakistan	0
Hindutva and communal polarization in Goa	0
Contesting resources, contesting the nation?	0
Books Available for Review	0
‘This is all waste’: emptying, cleaning and clearing land for renewable energy dispossession in borderland India	0
Radiant infrastructures: media, environment and cultures of uncertainty	0
Reflections on Bangladesh at 50	0
Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home	0
I am the people: reflections on popular sovereignty today	0
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Delusional states: feeling rule and development in Pakistan’s northern frontier	0
Political conflict in Pakistan Political conflict in Pakistan , by Mohammad Waseem, London, Hurst, 2021, 576 pp., £35.00 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-787-38400-2	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
Contesting the milad : Deobandis and Barelvis in British India and contemporary Pakistan	0
Locating Maldivian women’s mosques in global discourses	0
The Karachi Jews and the history of Pakistani antisemitism	0
A strategic myth: ‘Underdevelopment’ in Jammu and Kashmir	0
India and global governance across international regimes and time	0
Caring for glaciers: land, animals, and humanity in the Himalayas	0

Political parties and initial COVID-19 policies: subnational trends in India	0
Destroying one’s own home: resource frontiers and indigenous governance in Northeast India	0
Energy cooperation in South Asia: utilising natural resources for peace and sustainable development	0
Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir	0
Moving beyond faith: Muslim Jogis and religious conversion in north India	0
Books Available for Review	0
Singing across divides: music and intimate politics in Nepal	0
Walking with pilgrims: the Kanwar pilgrimage of Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai of Nepal	0
Hijras of Assam: undocumented ‘citizens’ in the National Register of Citizens	0
Defending Muhammad in Modernity, by	0
Debates on agricultural loan waiver schemes in India: myths and realities	0
Fiction in the making of intimacy in old age: a case from Sri Lanka	0
Provincial globalization in India: transregional mobilities and development politics	0
In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East	0
Prahlad and Shanta: the city’s madness	0
Depression in Kerala: Ayurveda and mental health care in 21st century India	0
Graphic diversity and ethnic identification in contemporary Manipur	0
People’s car: industrial India and the riddles of populism	0
The Indian Economy	0
Beyond religion in India and Pakistan: gender and caste, borders and boundaries	0
Taking the bull by its horns: the political economic logics of new farm laws and agrarian dissent in India	0
The gender of caste: representing Dalits in print	0
Renunciation and longing: the life of a twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist saint Renunciation and longing: the life of a twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist saint , b	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
Prophet and statesmen in crafting democracy in India: political leadership, ideas, and compromises	0
Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India	0
Mapping power: the political economy of electricity in India’s states	0
Legalizing sex: sexual minorities, AIDS, and citizenship in India	0
Sensitive space: fragmented territory at the India–Bangladesh border	0
Passionate politics: democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election	0
Books available for review	0
History and collective memory in South Asia, 1200–2000	0
The dynamics of federal (in)stability and negotiated cooperation under single-party dominance: insights from Modi’s India	0
Madrasas and the making of Islamic womanhood	0
Gender and neoliberalism: the All India Democratic Women’s Association and its strategies of resistance	0
The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā	0
Himalayan histories: economy, polity, religious traditions	0
Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage and Government Stability	0
In the shadow of a sword: the memoir of a woman leader in the LTTE	0
Undignified names: caste, politics, and everyday life in North India	0
Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960) Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960) , by Salma Siddique, Cambridge, Cam	0
Jugaad time: ecologies of everyday hacking in India	0
Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism	0
Subcontinental drift: domestic politics and India’s foreign policy	0
Pentecostalism and politics of conversion in India	0
Embodied spatial practices in the field: critical ethnographies in village studies from India	0
Caste and partition in Bengal: the story of Dalit refugees, 1946–1961 Caste and partition in Bengal: the story of Dalit refugees, 1946–1961 , by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and	0
Playing it the nation’s way: tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the native-masculine of Hindi sports films	0
The caste of merit: engineering education in India	0
Encountering the state: situated strategies and perspectives of Tanchangya villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh	0
Introduction to the BASAS 2021 special section	0
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the Anthropocene	0
Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news , by Sudeshna Devi, London, Routledge	0
Making the right choice: narratives of marriage in Sri Lanka	0
Un/common schooling: educational experiments in twentieth-century India Un/common schooling: educational experiments in twentieth-century India , edited by Janaki Nair,	0
Lived reality of elite neighbourhoods: geographies of inequality in Delhi	0
Being seen: the political and bureaucratic entanglements of Muslim women in West Bengal	0
Witch hunts: culture, patriarchy and structural transformation	0
The Ayodhya decision and Marwari mercantile patronage: materializing a devotional geography for Rāma through Hanumān	0
Voting for security: evidence from a Maoist-affected region in India	0
Rohini Mohan's The Seasons of Trouble (2014): Sri Lanka's Tamil women in war and its aftermath	0
Paradoxes of the popular: crowd politics in Bangladesh	0
Hindus in India, Bengalis in Bengal: the role of religious and regional identities in West Bengal politics	0
India’s Pakistan conundrum: managing a complex relationship	0
‘Still disappeared’: reconstructing the 1990 ‘truth commission’ in Nepal	0
Emotions, identity and the entrepreneurial self: narratives of working Muslim women in rural India	0
Building the state and conceiving the nation: the origins of separatist insurgency in the Mizo Hills, 1945-61	0
Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: how the RSS Reshaped India	0
Lethal spots, vital secrets: medicine and martial arts in South India	0
Crafty oligarchs, savvy voters	0
Cancer and the Kali Yuga: gender, inequality and health in South India Cancer and the Kali Yuga: gender, inequality and health in South India , by Cecilia Coale Van Holl	0
South Asian governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the question of postcolonial orderings	0
Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas , by Holly Walters, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2020, 293 pp., € 124,	0
Poetry of belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950	0
Motivations for Christian conversion among rural to urban migrants in the Kathmandu Valley	0
Books Available for Review	0
Afterword: a forgotten individual, a forgotten milieu	0
Living with oil & coal: Resource politics and militarization in Northeast India	0
Muslim daughters and inheritance in India:Sharī^cat, custom and practice	0
Neoliberalism and the transforming left in India: a contradictory manifesto	0
Defining Girlhood in India: a transnational history of sexual maturity laws	0
From family to police force: security and belonging on a South Asian border	0
Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay	0
Devotional contextures: the māla songs and Muslim ethical formation in contemporary Kerala	0
The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast	0
Of the (im)mobility regime in India: the post-COVID medicalisation of mobilities	0
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam	0
Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace	0
The postcolonial moment in South and Southeast Asia	0
Books available for review	0
Musicoplia in Mumbai: performing subjects and the metropolitan unconscious	0
Violent conjunctures in democratic India	0
Energy cooperation in South Asia: utilising natural resources for peace and sustainable development	0
Shiptown: between rural and urban North India	0
Beyond regimes: China and India compared	0
Life, labour, and dreams: one woman’s life in Old Delhi	0
Radiant infrastructures: media, environment and cultures of uncertainty	0
India and the framework convention on tobacco control: the politics of rising power attitudes toward international rules	0
Perspectives on work, home, and identity from artisans in Telangana	0
The fiction of ‘fluid nuclear units’: rearticulating relations through domestic work in Mumbai	0
Books Available for Review	0
Christianity and politics in tribal India	0
Politics of (dis)contentment. Restitching identities in rural Sri Lanka: gender, neoliberalism, and the politics of contentment	0
Reverse migrations and women’s role in shaping religious identities in Hyderabad	0
Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village , by Helle Bundgaard, Toronto, Univ	0
Aparajita and Nishith Chetana: the city’s contested fabric	0
Money, Culture, Class: Elite women as modern subjects	0
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities: the politics of contemporary urbanisation in northern India	0
Of histories (un)shared: India – Pakistan, postage stamps, and 1857	0
Culture, context and aging of older Indians: narratives from India and beyond	0
Rethinking conflict at the margins: dalits and borderland Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir	0
Women, goddesses and tantric praxis: a liberatory antidote to ‘Hindutva' nationalist politics	0
Lord Cornwallis is dead: the struggle for democracy in the United States and India	0
The politics of hope	0
The view from Mathura: nationalist projections in local perspective	0
Women entrepreneurship in the Indian middle class: interdisciplinary perspectives	0
Institutional trust paradox: understanding the dynamics of trust among different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka	0
Landlock: paralysing dispute over minerals on Adivasi lands in India	0
House ablaze: a case study of marital conflict in rural Sri Lanka	0
Planning in the 20th century and beyond: India’s Planning Commission and the NITI Aayog	0
Bhakti and embodiment: fashioning divine bodies and devotional bodies in Kṛṣṇa Bhakti	0
A small car for a small family: building India’s first ‘people’s car’	0
Bangladesh: Writings on 1971, Across Borders	0
Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan	0
The quotidian revolution: vernacularization, religion, and the premodern public sphere in India	0
Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice Multilingual education in south Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice , edite	0
Maritime security complexes of the Indo-Pacific region Maritime security complexes of the Indo-Pacific region , by Vijay Sakhuja and Lawrence S. Prabhakar, New Delhi, In	0
Correction	0
India's engagement with the International Monetary Fund: growing into an ownership role	0
Books Available for Review	0
In the name of the father? Northeast India and problems of national kinship	0
Caste, entrepreneurship and the illusions of tradition: branding the potters of Kolkata	0
‘I don’t know how we can stop ragging’: a qualitative study on the perceptions of staff and work-affiliated individuals at a Sri Lankan University, on the phenomena of ragging	0
Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?	0
Indian Federalism (Oxford India Short Introductions)	0
Voluntarism in partition’s aftermath: the Faridabad story	0
Correction	0
Why the digital classroom is a bad model for digital learning	0
The idea of integrity and the universe of corruption and anticorruption	0
Identity, nationhood and Bangladesh independent cinema	0
Dharmaśāstra and the legal personality of deities in the Ayodhya verdicts (2010 & 2019)	0
Kashmir after 2019: completing the partition	0
Men and feminism in India	0
Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–1975	0
Highways and hierarchies: ethnographies of mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean	0

Being single in India: stories of gender, exclusion, and possibility	0
Books available for review	0
Till kingdom come: medieval Hinduism in the modern Himalaya Till kingdom come: medieval Hinduism in the modern Himalaya , by Lokesh Ohri, Albany, State University of New	0
The relationship between female labor force participation and violent conflicts in South Asia	0
Essays in celebrity culture: Stars and styles	0
Contested Capital: Rural Middle Classes in India	0
Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory Reordering Adivasi worlds: representation, resistance, memory , by Sangeeta Dasgupta, New Delhi, Oxford Uni	0
Books Available for Review	0
Nightmarch: among India’s revolutionary guerrillas	0
Limits of bargaining: capital, labour and the state in contemporary India	0
Unruly figures: Queerness, sex work, and the politics of sexuality in Kerala	0
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–2020	0
Books Available for Review	0
Alien at birth: Chinese migrants in post-colonial Assam (1947-1962)	0
India moving: a history of migration	0
Introduction: Platform Challenges to Creative Industries in India	0
The archive of loss: lively ruination in mill land Mumbai	0
Remembering deceased kin through assisted conception in India	0
Faith, gender, and activism in the Punjab conflict: the wheat fields still whisper	0
Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between	0
Privileged minorities: Syrian Christianity, gender, and minority rights in postcolonial India	0
The return of the 1990s in Kashmir	0
Youth, meritocracy and cultural hierarchy in the New Nepal	0
Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s high mountains	0
Caste politics, minority representation, and social mobility: the associational life of Muslim caste in India	0
The regulation of religion and the making of Hinduism in colonial Trinidad	0
Dreaming in the shadow of history: micro-mobilities and belonging in Lucknow	0
Chronotopes of sovereign power in In the Name of the Nation	0
Nirmala and Sonia: the city through embodiment	0
Correction	0