books
Space After Deleuze (London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
Arun Saldanha and Hoon Song, eds. Sexual Difference between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism (London, Routledge, 2013)
Arun Saldanha and Jason Michael Adams, eds. Deleuze and Race (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
Rachel Slocum and Arun Saldanha, eds. Geographies of Race and Food: Fields Bodies Markets (Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 2013)
Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
special issues
Arun Saldanha and Hannah Stark, eds. “Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene”, Deleuze Studies, 10(4), 2016
Arun Saldanha and Hoon Song, eds. "Sexual difference between psychoanalyis and vitalism", Angelaki: A Journal for the Theoretical Humanities, 17(2), 2012 (became the book above)
book chapters
“The runaway weirdness of money: new old materialism for the Anthropocene”, in Iris van der Tuin and Felicity Colman, eds. Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
"Surreal resistance in Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention", in Mark Griffiths and Mikko Joronen, eds. Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2023)
"Emerging whiteness in early-modern Goa: a Nietzschean reading of Jan Huygen van Linschoten", in Shona Hunter and Christi van der Westhuizen, eds. Routledge Handbook of Critical Whiteness Studies (New York, Routledge, 2022)
"How bodies become viscous", in Nancy K. Dess, ed. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Embodiment (New York, Routledge, 2021)
“Student viscosities: a conversation about the micropolitics of race”, in Bessie Dernikos, Nancy Lesko, Stephanie McCall, and Alyssa Niccolini, eds. Mapping the Affective Turn in Education: Theory, Research, Pedagogy (New York, Routledge, 2020)
“Communist stratoanalysis”, in Thomas Jellis, Joe Gerlach and JD Dewsbury, eds. Why Guattari? A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics (London, Routledge, 2019)
“Globalization as a crisis of mobility: a critique of spherology“, in Andrew Baldwin and Giovanni Bettini, eds. Life Adrift: Climate Change, Migration, Critique (London, Rowman & Littlefield, 2017)
“Geophilosophy, geocommunism: is there life after man?“ in Jami Weinstein and Claire Colebrook, Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman (New York, Columbia University Press, 2017)
“Mechanosphere: earth, capital, man”, in Jon Roffe and Hannah Stark, eds. Deleuze and the Non/Human (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
“Dancing outside the city: factions of bodies in Goa”, in Matthew Gandy and B.J. Nilsen, eds. The Acoustic City (Berlin, Jovis, 2014)
“One, two, many: what is sexual difference now?“ Arun Saldanha and Hoon Song, eds. Sexual Difference between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism (London, Routledge, 2013)
“Against yin-yang: the dao of feminist universalism“, in Arun Saldanha and Hoon Song, eds. Sexual Difference between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism (London, Routledge, 2013)
“Monopoly’s violence: Georges Bataille explains the early Dutch spice trade”, in Rachel Slocum and Arun Saldanha, eds. Geographies of Race and Food: Fields, Bodies, Markets (Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 2013)
Rachel Slocum and Arun Saldanha, “Geographies of race and food: an introduction”, in Rachel Slocum and Arun Saldanha, eds. Geographies of Race and Food: Fields, Bodies, Markets (Aldershot, UK, Ashgate, 2013)
“Power-geometry as philosophy of space”, in David Feathersone and Joe Painter, eds. Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey (Oxford, Blackwell-Wiley, 2013)
“Bastard and mixed race are the true names of race”, in Arun Saldanha and Jason Michael Adams, eds. Deleuze and Race (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
Suzana Milevskova and Arun Saldanha, “The eternal return of race: reflections on Eastern European racism”, in Arun Saldanha and Jason Michael Adams, eds. Deleuze and Race (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
“Race”, in John Agnew and James S. Duncan, eds. Companion to Human Geography (Oxford, Blackwell, 2011)
“Politics and difference”, in Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison, eds. Place-Making: Nonrepresentational Theories and Human Geography (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2010)
“The ghost of Goa trance: a retrospective”, in Graham St John, ed. The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance (London, Routledge, 2010)
“Whiteness in Golden Goa: Linschoten on phenotype”, in Ashraf Jamal and Shanti Moorthy, eds. Indian Ocean Studies: Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives (London, Routledge, 2009)
“Soundscapes”, in Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift, eds. The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography: Social and Cultural Geography (Oxford, Elsevier, 2009)
“The political geography of many bodies”, in Kevin Cox, Murray Low, and Jennifer Robinson, eds. Sage Handbook of Political Geography (London, Sage, 2007)
“Phenotype: matters of race”, in Susan Petrilli, ed. White Matters / Il bianco in questione (Rome, Meltemi, 2007)
“Muziektoerisme en cyborgs in Goa: een materialistische etnografie van het danspubliek”, in Nico Carpentier, Caroline Pauwels and Olga Van Oost, eds. Het on(be)grijpbare publiek/The Ungraspable Audience. Een communicatiewetenschappelijke verkenning van het publiek (Brussels, VUBPress, 2004)
“Goa trance and trance in Goa: smooth striations”, in Graham St. John, ed. Rave Culture and Religion (London, Routledge, 2003)
“Goa: music culture, youth tourism and the meaning of place”, in Timothy Mitchell and Peter Doyle with Bruce Johnson, eds. Changing Sounds: New Directions and Configurations in Popular Music (Sydney, University of Technology Sydney, 1999)
“Muziek, ruimte, identiteit: rijke jongeren gaan uit in India”, in Els Schelfhout and Hans Verstraeten, eds. De rol van de media in de multiculturele maatschappij (Brussels, VUBPress, 1998)
journal articles
“Psychedelic under catastrophe: reflections on the October 7 rave massacre”, South Atlantic Quarterly, 2025, 124(2): 375-397
“A date with destiny: racial capitalism and the beginnings of the Anthropocene”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2020, 38(1):12-34
Arun Saldanha and Hannah Stark “A new earth: Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene”, Deleuze Studies, 2016, 10(4): 427-439, 2016
“One, two, many: what is sexual difference now?” in special issue “Sexual difference between psychoanalysis and vitalism”, Angelaki: Journal for the Theoretical Humanities, 2012, 17(2): 1-30
“Against yin-yang: the dao of feminist universalism”, Angelaki, 2012, 17(2): 145-168
“Michaux: xenopathic ontology”, Deleuze Studies, 2012, 6(3): 411-437
“The concept of race”, Geography, 2011, 96(1): 27-33
“The itineraries of geography: Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Itinerario and Dutch exploration of the Indian Ocean, 1594-1602”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2011, 101(1): 149-177
“Skin, affect, aggregation: Guattarian variations on Fanon” Environment and Planning A, 2010, 42(10): 2410-27
“Two birds of paradise in North Holland, 1592: the gift of the exotic”, Parallax, 2010, 16(1): 68-79
“Music is force”, The Massachussetts Review, 50th Anniversary Issue, 2009, 50(1-2): 70-80
“Back into the great outdoors: speculative realism as philosophy of science”, Cosmos and History: Journal for Social and Natural Philosophy, 2009, 5(2): 304-321
“Heterotopia and structuralism”, Environment and Planning A, 2008, 40(9): 2080-96
“The LSD-event: Badiou not on acid”, Theory and Event, 2007, 10(4)
"Reontologising race: the machinic geography of phenotype”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2006, 24(1): 9-24
“Vision and viscosity in Goa’s psychedelic trance scene”, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 2005, 4(2)
“Trance and visibility at dawn: racial dynamics in Goa’s rave scene”, Social and Cultural Geography, 2005, 6(5): 707-21
“Actor-network and critical sociology”, Critical Sociology, 2003, 29(3): 417-32
“Music tourism and factions of bodies in Goa”, Tourist Studies, 2002, 2(1): 43-62
“Music, space, identity: geographies of youth culture in Bangalore”, Cultural Studies, 2002, 16(3): 337-50
“Identity, spatiality and postcolonial resistance: geographies of the tourism critique in Goa”, Current Issues in Tourism, 2002, 5(2): 94-111
commentaries and book reviews
“John Fahey and the dialectic”, review of George Henderson, Blind Joe Death’s America: John Fahey, the Blues, and Writing White Discontent, cultural geographies, 31(4): 597-600
Review of Radek Przedpełski and S.E. Wilmer, eds., Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity, Alienocene: Journal of the First Outernational, online journal, March 2022, https://alienocene.com/2022/03/30/deleuze-guattari-and-the-art-of-multiplicity-a-book-review
Review of William Sites, Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City (University of Chicago Press), cultural geographies, 2021, 30(1): 157-158
“Apocalypse and becoming-revolutionary”, response to Jairus Grove, Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World (Duke University Press), Society and Space, 2022, https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/apocalypse-and-becoming-revolutionary
“In what way Hobbesian?”, response to Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright, Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory for our Planetary Future (Verso), Progress in Human Geography, 2020, 44(4): 806-808
“Affect or megamachine?”, response to Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (Ashgate), Dialogues in Human Geography, 2018, 8(2): 213-17
“The difference difference makes”, author’s response to commentaries of Heidi Nast, Anna Secor, Paul Kingsbury, and Richard Hoffman Reinhardt on Sexual Difference Between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism, AAG Review of Books, 2016, 4 (4): 255-67
“The jolt of art”, response to Harriet Hawkins and Elizabeth Straughan, eds. Geographical Aesthetics (Ashgate), Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 2016, 60(3): e32–e43
“Scale, difference and universality in the study of race”, author’s response to commentaries of Mai Al-Nakib, Peter Kulchisky, Anna Secor, and Dan Swanton on Deleuze and Race, Postcolonial Studies, 2016, 18(3): 326-35
“The reality of race”, The Learned Pig, January 2016
Review of Quentin Meillassoux, Science-Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction (Univocal), Cultural Geographies, 2016, 23(2): 368-69
“Guattari, ideology and the ironies of theoretical (im)practice“, response, Dialogues in Human Geography, 2015, 5(2): 149-54
“Deleuze/art/earth/Marx”, special section "Geopower" on Elizabeth Grosz, Chaos, Art, Territory: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth (Columbia University Press), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2012, 30(6): 978-80
“Aestheticism and posthumanism”, response, Dialogues in Human Geography, 2012, 2(3): 276-79
“Assemblage, materiality, race, capital”, response, Dialogues in Human Geography, 2012, 12(2): 194-97
“Guns, germs and radical evil”, commentary, "Bloodlands: critical geographical responses to the 22 July 2011 events in Norway", eds. Veit Bachmann, Luiza Bialasiewicz, and James D. Sidaway, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2012, 30(1): 200-02
Response to Ladelle McWorther, Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America (Indiana University Press), Social and Cultural Geography, 2011, 12(3): 324-26
Review of Adrian Parr, Deleuze and Memorial Culture: Desire, Singular Memory, and the Politics of Trauma (Edinburgh University Press), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2010, 28(3): 557-58, 2010
“So what is race?” Insights, working papers of Durham Institute of Advanced Study, 2009, vol. 2, “Being Human”
Review of Elizabeth Grosz, Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth (Columbia University Press), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2009, 27(3): 569-70
Slocum, Rachel, Elisabeth Ellsworth, Sandrine Zerbib, and Arun Saldanha “Local food and public space: a study of the perceptions and practices of Minneapolis Farmers’ Market customers” CURA Reporter, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2009, Spring/Summer, 40-50
“The struggle over construction”, reply to Bruce Braun, Audrey Kobayashi, David Ley, and Geraldine Pratt, special section on Psychedelic White, eds. Rachel Slocum and Susan J. Smith, Social and Cultural Geography, 2009, 10(8): 512-17
“Animals beneath race”, in Pep Subirós, ed. Jane Alexander: On Being Human, Durham Cathedral exhibition publication (Durham, Institute of Advanced Study, 2009)
“White ravers in a Goan village: race as machinic assemblage” darkmatter, no. 2, 2007
“A geophilosophy to come”, review of Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert, ed. Deleuze and Space (Edinburgh University Press), Theory and Event, 2006, 9(4)
Review of Alphonso Lingis, Trust (University of Minnesota Press), Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2005, 23(6): 926-28
“America, by trial and error”, Left Curve, 2004, 29: 132-33
Review of Steve Martinot, The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance (Temple University Press), Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2004, 27(3): 496-97
Review of Steve Derné, Movies, Masculinity and Modernity: An Ethnography of Men’s Filmgoing in India (Praeger) and Arjun Ragagopal, Politics after Television: Religious Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Indian Public (Cambridge University Press), Critical Sociology, 2002, 28(3): 443-46
“Fear and loathing in Goa”, Unesco Courier, July/August 2000: 53-54