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The Guantánamo Graphic Novels: Towards a Carceral Imperialism. In Alfred J. López, Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo (eds) The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South. Routledge 2023.
Artificial Beings, Servitude and Rights: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. In Masood Ashraf Raja and Nick TC Lu (eds) The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice. Routledge, 2023.
The Refugee Imaginary. In Mike Classon Frangos & Sheila Ghose (eds) Refugee Genres: Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Ageing and Narration in Huntington’s Disease Memoirs. In Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung, and Raquel Medina (eds) The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film. Bloomsbury, 2023.
Human Stewardship and "Reproductive Futurism" in Dystopian Fiction. In Rachel Carnell and Chris Mounsey (eds) Stewardship and the Future of the Planet: Promise and Paradox. Routledge, 2023.
Posthumanisms. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory . Oxford University Press, 2022.
Critical Posthumanism and the Uncanny in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me. In Stephen Herbrechter et al. (eds) Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism. Springer, 2022.
Sports, Celebrity, and the Sports Biopic. In Meena Gopal and Padma Prakash (eds) Sports Studies in India: Expanding the Field. Oxford University Press, 2022. 322-333.
Graphic Mortality: Malik Sajjad's Munnu and the Culture of Death. In Samarth Singhal and Amrita Ajay (eds) South Asian Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Visual Cultures. Primus, 2022. 147-164.
Posthuman Urban Spaces in Dave Eggers’ The Circle. In Saswat Samay Das and Ananya Roy Pratihar (eds) Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 197-216.
Interminable Journeys. In Brian Yothers and Maria Pia Di Bella (eds) The Long Journey: Exploring Travel and Travel Writing. Bergahn, 2021.
'English, Human Rights and Literature in the Postcolonial Classroom'. In Nandana Dutta (ed) English Teachers' Accounts: Essays on the Teacher, the Text and the Classroom. Routledge, 2022.
Marginality, Suffering, Justice: Questions of Dalit Dignity in Cultural Texts. In Aakash Singh Rathore (ed) BR Ambedkar: the Quest for Justice. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Violent recall: Genocide memories, literary representation, and cosmopolitan memory. In Ajlina Karamhic-Muratovic and Laura Kromjak (eds) Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence. Routledge, 2020.
The Making of a Moral Readership: Commentaries on English Education, India 1875-1930. In Jonathan Rose (ed) The Edinburgh History of Reading, Vol 4: Subversive Readers. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 138-161.
Celebrity, charisma, and post-truth relations: Agnogenesis, Affect and Bollywood. In José Pedro Zúquete (ed) The Routledge International Handbook of Charisma. Routledge, 2020.
Precarious Lives in the Age of Biocapitalism. In Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Jacob Wamberg (eds) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism. Bloomsbury, 2020. 425-435.
Afghanistan, the Indian “Mutiny,” and the Bicultural Stereotype of John Nicholson. Ireland’s Imperial Connections, 1775–1947. Ed. Daniel Sanjiv Roberts and Jonathan Wright. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2019. 191-212.
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1. Nayar, P.K., Fanon’s Biopolitics. In D. Byrd, S. J. Miri (Ed.), Frantz Fanon and Emancipatory Social Theory: A View from the 'Wretched'. Netherland: Brill. 2019. 217-230. ISBN: 9789004409200.
2. Nayar, P.K., Authors, self-fashioning and online cultural production in the age of Hindu celevision. In X. Zeiler (Ed.), Digital Hinduism. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2019. ISBN: 978135607322.
3. Nayar, P.K., The Climate of Change: Graphic Adaptation, ‘The Rime of the Modern Mariner’, and the Ecological Uncanny. In S. Slovic, S. Rangarajan (Ed.), Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (26). Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2019. ISBN: 9781351682701.
4. Nayar, P.K., South of the Graphics. In R. West-Pavlov (Ed.), The Global South and Literature (235-249). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge UP. 2018. ISBN: 9781108231930.
5. Nayar, P.K., Biocultural Metrics and the Moral Policing of Young People's Politics in Contemporary India. In M.T. Grasso, J. Bessant (Ed.), Governing Youth Politics in the Age of Surveillance. London and New York: Routledge. 2018. ISBN: 9781351807562.
6. Nayar, P.K., Victims, Bollywood and the construction of a cele-mem. In A. Elliott (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies (177-189). London and New York: Routledge. 2018.
7. Nayar, P.K., Writing Disability and Rights in Naseema. In Om Prakash Dwivedi, V. G. Julie Rajan (Eds.), Human Rights in Postcolonial India (145-156). India: Routledge. 2016. ISBN: 9781315651460.
8. Nayar, P.K., Bioethical Cultural Studies: The Case of Adipose, Capital, Materiality and Gender. In D. P. Nath., P. Dutta (Eds.), Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Guwahati: Purbanchal Prakash (41-54). Guwahati: Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University. 2016.
9. Nayar, P.K., The Indian Graphic Novel and Dalit Trauma: A Gardener in the Wasteland. In J. K. Abraham, J. Misrahi-Barak (Ed.), Dalit Literatures in India (320-338). India: Routledge. 2016.
10. Nayar, P.K., The Transnational Indian Novel in English: Cultural Parasites and Postcolonial Praxis. In G. Pultar (Ed.), Imagined Identities: Identity Formation in the Age of Globalization. Syracuse. United States: Syracuse UP. 2016.
11. Nayar, P.K., Brand Bollywood Care: Celebrity, Charity and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism. In D. Marshall. S. Redmond (Eds.), A Companion to Celebrity (273-288). United States: Wiley-Blackwell. 2015. ISBN: 9781118475089.
12. Nayar, P.K., Trust a Few, Fear the Rest: The Anxiety and Fantasy of Human Evolution. In M. Hauskeller., T.D. Philbeck., C.D. Carbonell (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television . London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. ISBN: 9781137430328.
13. Nayar, P.K., Cricket, IPL and Cultural Mobility: The New Cosmopolitan Idiom of Sport. In M. Chandran., S. Mathur (Eds.), Textual Travels: Theory and Practice of Translation in India (153-170). New Delhi: Routledge. 2015.
14. Nayar, P.K., Postcolonial Demo-graphics: Traumatic Realsim in Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s Delhi Calm. In B. Mehta., P. Mukherji (Eds.), Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities (131-141). London and New York: Routledge. 2015. ISBN: 9781315817576.
15. Nayar, P.K., Indian Writing in English as Celebrity. In O. Dwivedi., L. Lau (Eds.), Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market (32-47). London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. ISBN: 9781137437716.
16. Nayar, P.K., From Bhopal to Biometrics: Biological Citizenship in the Age of Globalization. In S. Slovic., S.Rangarajan., V.Sarveswaran (Eds.), Ecoambiguity, Community and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (85-98). United States: Lexington Books. 2014. ISBN: 9781498525367.
17. Nayar, P.K., Object Protocols: The “Materials” of Early English Encounters with India. In D. Johanyak., W. S. H. Lim (Ed.), The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia (185-202). London: Palgrave-Macmillan. 2010. ISBN: 9780230106222.
18. Nayar, P.K., India Goes to the Blogs: Cyberspace, Identity, Community. In K. M. Gokulsing., W. Dissanayake (Eds.). Popular Culture in a Globalised India (207-222). London: Routledge. 2009. ISBN: 9780415476676.
19. Nayar, P.K., The Narrative Tradition of Posthuman Rights. In Andy Miah (Ed.). Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (196-206). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2008. ISBN: 9781846311819.
20. Nayar, P.K., The Rhetoric of Ruin: William Hodges’s India. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (75-106). New York: AMS Press. 2008. ISBN: 9780404644093.
21. Nayar, P.K., Borderless Bodies. In M. Narula, S. Sengupta., J. Bagchi., R. Sundaram (Ed.), Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers (199-210). New Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. 2007.
22. Genetics and Autobiography. In Kate Douglas and Ashley Barnwell (Ed.) Research Methodologies for Auto/Biography Studies. Routledge 2019.
23. Clicktivism. In Barney Warf (ed) The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet. SAGE, 2018. 101-103.