Publications
Encountering Craft: Methodological approaches from Anthropology, Art History, and Design
(Routledge, 2023, forthcoming)
This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined and classified as ‘craft.’ It fosters an understanding of how methodology, across disciplines, contributes to analytical frameworks within which the subject-matter of craft is defined and constructed. The contributions are written by scholars whose work focuses on different craft practices across geographies. Informed by anthropology, art history and design, this volume facilitates interdisciplinary discussion and touches on some of the most critical issues related to craft research today.
Perspectives on Work, Home, and Identity from Artisans in Telangana: Conversations Around Craft
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
'Conversations Around Craft' provides an ethnographic account of the everyday life of a household of artisans in the Telangana state of southern India. It engages with craft practice beyond the material (in this case, the region's characteristic murals, narrative cloth scrolls, and ritual masks and figurines). In situating the voice of the artisans as the central focus of study, diverse histories of craft practice emerge, through which artisans assemble entangled and competing narratives alike about work, home, and identity.
Forthcoming
"Craft as Recovery, Sustenance and Industry: Telling the history of the Handicraft Industry through the Partition of India", Book chapter in edited volume Craft and War, Bloomsbury
“Mobile artisans: Selling handicrafts in Hyderabad”, Book chapter in edited volume Craft and Substantiality, Routledge, London.
Journal Publications
“People are desperate for intimacy”: ‘Intimacy Urgencies’ and ‘Doing Trust’—How do Grindr users Respond to Risks of Violence in Contemporary India?. Sexuality & Culture (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10178-9
“Old Tales through New Images, and New Tales through Old Images: Ethnography of a Jambavantaru katha (narrative) performance in Telangana”, Text and Performance Quarterly. July 2022.
How Does Law Prescribe Circulation of Children? Understanding Different Kinds of Movement Within the Adoption Law in India. Journal of Family Issues. July 2021.
“Identifying ‘authorized users’, identifying kin: negotiating relational worlds through Geographical Indications registration”, Contemporary South Asia, 2021
"Single Parent Adoption in Contemporary India: Addressing Questions Around Sexuality." Adoption & Culture, vol. 8 no. 2, 2020, p. 173-193.
“Crating Objects, Crafting Affinities: Work, Kinship and Self in a Telangana Artisanal Household”, in World Art, Vol. 07, Issue 01, August 2017, pp. 1-20
“University of Canterbury Feminist Society's third annual feminist conference (17-18 September 2016): Selected papers: Craft as everyday site of assertion: How do artisans talk about gender and skill?”, in Women’s Studies Journal of Aoteroa New Zealand, Vol. 31, Issue 01, August 2017, pp. 81-87
“Geographical Fixity or Affective Ties: How do Artists respond to Geographical Indications?” in Journal of Modern Craft, Vol. 9, Issue 02, July 2016, pp. 1–21
“Authenticating the Craft: Geographical Indication as the new history of the Telangana Scroll”, in India International Centre Quarterly Journal, Autumn 2015
Book chapters
“Devi or Art History? Reading entangled narratives on the lineage of artisanal skill from Telangana”, in Studies in Religion and Everyday Life, edited by Farhana Ibrahim, Oxford University Press, 2024.
“Covid-19 Stories: Imaginations of the Local”, in Pandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-imagainings, edited by Rimple Mehta, Sandali Thakur and Debaroti Chakraborty, Routledge, London, 2022.
“Varkaris” (co-authored with Aditya Malik and Tuhina Ganguly) in Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism. Ed. Tracy Coleman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017
Publications with PhD students
Latif, Amal and Bose, Chandan. 2023. "Being a Khadamma: Narratives of Home, Belongingness and Identity for women domestic workers in the Gulf", Asian Journal of Womens Studies, Vol. 29, Issue 2, pp: 285-201.
Book reviews
“Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India”, written by Brahma Prakash, Oxford University Press (2020), Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 55, no. 2, 287-290, 2021
“Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States”, written by Kathryn Mariner, Anthropology Book Forum
“We Who Wove with Golden Thread: Summoning Community in South India”, written by Aarti Kawlra, Orient Blackswan (2018), Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 53, no. 2, 454-457, 2019.