CAA and NRC Stoke the Wrong Problems in Meghalaya
By Nafis Hasan In December 2019, at the peak of the anti-CAA protests, my high school WhatsApp group was abuzz…
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Hauntings of a Deadname: Proof, Ephemera, and Queer/Trans Citizenship
By Brian A. Horton Before the Citizenship Amendment Act, the Transgender Act posed barriers to transgender Indians’ right to self-definition….
The New Visibility and Grotesque Impunity of Communalist Police Violence in #NoCAA and COVID India
By Beatrice Jauregui Anthropologists working in different global contexts have shown that police and policing are not isomorphic with “the…
Frames of Solidarity: Finding Kashmir in Anti-CAA Protests
By Mir Fatimah Kanth Since early December 2019, there have been large-scale organizing efforts against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019…
Mizo Indigenous Resistance Against CAA
By Mariangela Mihai Mizoram is to India what Arjun Appadurai (1986) once argued India to be to anthropological discourse—a black…
Protesting in Ahmedabad: Between Resistance and Restrictions
By Maya Ratnam, Sarthak Bagchi, Mary Ann Chacko December 2019 to February 2020 witnessed widespread popular protests in resistance to India’s…
Borderland Citizenship
By Sarbani Sharma and Aditi Saraf The borderland zones of Kashmir and Assam have never bought into the liberal idea…
A State of Fear, Confusion and Hope: CAA and Bengali Dalit Refugees in India
By Praskanva Sinharay The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) has marked the culmination of a longstanding anti-migrant political campaign of…
The Anti-Dalit, Anti-Adivasi Features of the 2020 Indian Citizenship Amendment Act
Suraj Yengde The document is a privilege. In India, a person with no history of property ownership or registration in…
Festschrift for Carol Greenhouse
Book after book, article after article, Carol Greenhouse has transformed what anthropologists study and developed contextually grounded techniques for understanding…
