Publications

Key publications on the related topics for the past several years

Roy Chowdhury A. 'Re-thinking Postcolonial Politics': Salvaging Democracy from the Religious Right-wing Parties in India, in: IV ISA Forum of Sociology: Challenges of the 21st Century. Febr 23-27, 2021. Porto Alegres, Brazil. Book of Abstracts.. Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, University Complutense, 2021. P. 490-490.

Toepler S., Fröhlich C. Advocacy in authoritarian contexts: the case of disability NGOs in Russia // International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 2020. Vol. 40. No. 11-12. P. 1473-1489. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-03-2020-0077

Fröhlich C., Jacobsson K. Performing Resistance: Liminality, Infrapolitics, and Spatial Contestation in Contemporary Russia // Antipode. 2019. Vol. 51. No. 4. P. 1146-1165. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12529

Roy Chowdhury A., Kuntala L. Agrarian distress and Gemstone Mining in India: The Political Economy of Survival, in: Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, Artisanal and Small-Scale mining in the contemporary world. Canberra : Australian National University, 2018. Ch. #4. P. 89-116. https://doi.org/10.22459/BPP.03.2018.04 

Roy Chowdhury A. Neoliberal Entrenchment in India: Consequences for the Informal Labour and the Poor at Large // Sociology. 2021. Vol. 55. No. 2. P. 438-445. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520966945

Roy Chowdhury A., Lahiri-Dutt K. Extractive capital and multi-scalar environmental politics: interpreting the exit of Rio Tinto from the diamond fields of Central India // Third World Quarterly. 2021. Vol. 42. No. 8. P. 1770-1787. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1917356

Roy Chowdhury A. State Formation from Below: Social Movements of Dam Evictees and Legal Transformation of the Local State in India, 1960–76 // South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies. 2018. Vol. 41. No. 1. P. 194-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2018.1406445

Roy Chowdhury A. Postcolonial Turns in Indian Political Theorising: The Contributions and Imaginaries of Sudipta Kaviraj // Indian Anthropologist. 2020. Vol. 50. No. 1-2. P. 93-109.

Roy Chowdhury A., Rajhans S. K. Revisiting Wittfogel: “Hydraulic society” in colonial India and its post-colonial legacies in hydropower management, in: Theory, Policy, Practice: Development and Discontents in India. L. : Routledge, 2021. Ch. 6. P. 123-140. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003159940-7/revisiting-wittfogel-arnab-roy-chowdhury-sanjay-kumar-rajhans

Roy Chowdhury A. Against Unjust Laws: Civil Society Activism for the Rights of the Stateless Rohingya “Boat People” in Bangladesh // South Atlantic Quarterly. 2021. Vol. 120. No. 3. P. 670-676. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9155381

Fröhlich C. Urban citizenship under post-Soviet conditions: Grassroots struggles of residents in contemporary Moscow // Journal of Urban Affairs. 2020. Vol. 42. No. 2. P. 188-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2019.1617035

Toepler S., Zimmer A., Fröhlich C., Obuch K. The Changing Space for NGOs: Civil Society in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes // Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 2020. Vol. 31. No. 4. P. 649-662. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11266-020-00240-7

Lahiri-Dutt K., Roy Chowdhury A. In the Realm of the Diamond King: Myth, Magic,and Modernity in the Diamond Tracts of Central India // Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2018. Vol. 108. No. 6. P. 1620-1634. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1449629

Roy Chowdhury A., Lahiri-Dutt K. Hirashasan: Governing diamonds in Central India // Geoforum. 2019. Vol. 105. P. 32-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.06.001

Fröhlich C. Urban activism and citizenship under Post-soviet conditions: the Muscovites’ struggle for public space, in: Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Berlin : DOM publishers, 2020. P. 67-71.

Roy Chowdhury A. An ‘un-imagined community’: the entangled genealogy of an exclusivist nationalism in Myanmar and the Rohingya refugee crisis // Social Identities. 2020. Vol. 26. No. 5. P. 590-607. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504630.2020.1782731