Publications
MONOGRAPHS
New lives in Anand: Building a Muslim hub in western India. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2022.
—> Also available in an open access edition, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Jong in Dollywood: Hindostaanse jongeren en Indiase films. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis. 2005. This book is a popularised version of my award-winning Master thesis (2004, in Dutch) on the viewership of Indian cinema among young people from Surinamese-Indian descent in the Netherlands.
ARTICLES
IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Empty homes: Filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China. Visual Studies, volume 38, 2024.
“Today, we teach the kids where we are from.”: Event filmmaking and diasporic home-making among Indian Muslims in North America. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, accepted for publication in 2023, to appear in volume 14 (1) in 2024.
Ultrashort, low-resolution and anonymous: Designing anthropological films for smartphone viewers. entanglements 3(1), 62-80. 2020.
#Corona: Distributing anthropological films during the pandemic. AllegraLab, October 8, 2020.
Communal living: Religion, class, and the politics of dwelling in small-town Gujarat. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 52(1), 53-78. 2018.
A global town in central Gujarat, India: Rural-urban connections and international migration. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 38(2), 230-245. 2015. [PDF]
Reflections on migration through film: Screening of an anthropological documentary on Indian youth in London. Visual Anthropology, 28(5), 398-421. 2015. [PDF]
Middling migration: Contradictory mobility experiences of Indian youth in London. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(8), 1217-1235. 2014. [PDF]
book chapters
Ethnocinematographic theory: How to develop migration theory through ethnographic filmmaking. In Karolina Nikielska-Sekula and Amandine Desille (eds.), Visual Methodology in Migration Studies: New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions. Cham: Springer. 2021.
Versterken sociale media de democratie? In Dilemma: Maatschappijleer Methode voor de Bovenbouw (HAVO/VWO). Multimedia e-learning chapter for the Dutch civics school method Dilemma. 2019.
Moeten de media evenwichtig berichten over verschillende mensen in de samenleving? In Dilemma: Maatschappijleer Methode voor de Bovenbouw (HAVO/VWO). Multimedia e-learning chapter for the Dutch civics school method Dilemma. 2019.
Frustrations and alliances: The politics of migrant funding for Muslim education in central Gujarat. In Carol Upadhya, Mario Rutten and Leah Koskimaki (eds.), Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics. London: Routledge. 2018. [PDF]
Starting migration: Emerging migration patterns among the Muslim middle class of Charotar. In Amrapali Merchant (ed.), Impact of Diaspora. Vallabh Vidyanagar: NRG Foundation and Sardar Patel University. 2012.
Bollywood and the Indian diaspora. In Gijsbert Oonk (ed.), Global Indian Diasporas: Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 211-234. 2008. [PDF]
Book reviews
Book reviews
of New Lives in Anand
Review of Rethinking markets in modern India: Embedded exchange and contested jurisdiction, edited by A. Gandhi, B. Harriss-White, D. E. Haynes and S. Schwecke, in Ethnos, 2022. [PDF]
Review of Documentary film in India: an anthropological history, G. Battaglia, in Social Anthropology - Anthropologie Sociale, 2020. [PDF]
Review of Methodologies of mobility: ethnography and experiment, A. Elliot, R. Norum and N. B. Salazar (eds.), in Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale, 2018. [PDF]
Review of Capital, interrupted: agrarian development and the politics of work in India, V. Gidwani, in International Review of Social History, 2011. [PDF]
media
EXAMPLES
“Smartphones and public anthropology.” Blog post in Digital Ethnography Initiative. 2 April 2021.
“Politics of (in)visibility”. Interviewed on Wien TV (OCTO). 13 Juli 2020.
Conferences
EXAMPLES
Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Barcelona, July 2024. Co-convening of the panel Investigating common concerns through participatory filmmaking, paper “Film elicitation as a mode of co-interpreting cycling city-making”.
Conference Belonging & Mobility of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Amsterdam, October 2023. Paper “(Re)making cycling cities”.
Symposium For posterity: Preservation and accessibility of ethnographic film collections. Leiden University, 23 March 2023. Invited talk on the Encyclopedia Cinematographica 16 mm film collection.
Annual Meeting of the Cycling Research Board, Amsterdam, October 2022. Paper “Worlding cycling research with anthropology”.
Velo-city conference Cycling the Change in Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 2022. Participation in the “bicycle pioneer” network of Cycle Competence Austria funded by Klimaaktiv, an agency of the Austrian Ministry of Climate Protection.
Vienna Anthropology Days, September 2022. Convening of the panel Ethnographic media practices.
Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Belfast, July 2022. Curation of the film programme of the conference, and co-convening of the panel Imagining alternative data futures.
EASA Media Anthropology Network E-Seminar, June 2022. Working paper 69: “Visual ethnographies of science”.
RAIMed conference Mobilising Methods in Medical Anthropology, January 2022. Paper “Editing the pandemic: Montage filmmaking as a mode of theorising”, in the online panel Disturbing images.
Conference of the RAI Film Festival, 2021. Co-convening of the online panels Critical play: Smartphones as a mode of creative engagement with crisis and Rethinking anthropological film distribution: Radical sharing beyond the crisis, paper “Mobilising sound: Audio tours and the anthropology of urban mobility”.
International Convention of Asia Scholars, 2021. Co-convening of the online panel Multimodality in India: Connecting research, media practices, and social engagement.
