Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal

Sounding untouchability across postcolonial borders Communities of Sound brings together insights from religion, anthropology, sound, and migration studies to explore the sonic traces of untouchability and forced migration across the Bay of Bengal. Based on an immersive, multi-sited ethnography with Matua devotees—a low-caste, Bengali-speaking Dalit religious community fragmented by Partition, war, and postcolonial displacement—the book …

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Cosmopolitan Maternalisms: Migration, Kinship, and Coorg Mothering in Modernity

This women-centred study examines social reconstructions of immigrant mothering among a middle-class minority community of first-generation Coorg women – Kodavathees – in urban Karnataka, Singapore, and Sydney through conceptual lenses of new cosmopolitanisms and new maternalisms. Cosmopolitan Maternalisms explores how Kodavathee immigrant mothering is practised with a pragmatic awareness of adapting the ways of the …

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Migration and Citizenship Pathways In/Beyond Asia

This special issue examines the diversified citizenship pathways that migrants undertake to manage uncertainties and global disparities or opportunities in various national contexts and at different life stages. We define citizenship pathways as the routes and processes that shape how migrants pursue personal and family goals to achieve citizenship recognition and redistribution. As migrants respond …

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International Journal of Heritage Studies – Special Issue: Oceanic Geographies and Maritime Heritage in Making: Producing History, Memory and Territory (Volume 30, Issue 6)

The contributions in this special issue magnify how temporalization of the ocean is an ideological and political project. Where Hang Zhou and Jieyi Xie juxtapose the cultural value of the maritime heritage of the Middle Passage against the exploitation of seafloor resources that denies any historical depth to the ocean, Pearson focuses on submerged shipwrecks …

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Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space – Special Section: Exchanges: Critical Geoeconomics (Volume 57, Issue 1)

This theme section explores the analytical purchase and limitations of advancing a “critical geoeconomics” within a broader historical and geographical context. Comprising 11 short papers, it combines timely reassessments of contemporary and past iterations of geoeconomics and explores the potentials for positing an anti-geoeconomics against the backdrop of nationalist-imperialist phantoms. Collectively, the set of exchanges …

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology – Special Issue: Leisure and Older Adults in Asia (Volume 39, Issue 3)

Although the study of older adults’ participation in leisure has gained traction over the last decade, there is need to consider in greater depth the central role that leisure activities may play in the construction of identities and lifestyles in later life. The collection of articles in this special issue contributes to the emerging literature …

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