Articles

2024

“Towards a Historical Geography of Girlhood”, Geography Compass, 18, no. 6, e.12760.

“Prayers, Not Protests: Gender, Christianity and the Communal Subject in Late Colonial India”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (special issue on Geographies of Communalism, ed. Stephen Legg and Charu Gupta), 46, no.6, 1294–1312.

“Jasbir Puar”. Invited contribution to Mary Gilmartin, Susan Roberts, Rob Kitchin, and Phil Hubbard (eds.) Key Thinkers on Space and Place. London: Sage Publications.

2023

“The Carceral Domesticities of Love Jihad”, Environment and Planning D, 41, no.6, 995-1012.

“Ideal Girls for Christian Internationalism: The YWCA in Early Twentieth-Century South Asia”, Social History, 48, no. 1: 17-42. 

2022

“Youth and Decolonial Politics in a Relational Context”, with Sara Smith, Mabel Gergan, and Stephen Young, Antipode, 55, no. 3: 671-686 (with Mabel Gergan, Sara Smith, and Stephen Young).

“Bodies, Embodiment and Feeling”. Invited contribution to Katie Barclay and Peter Stearns (ed.) Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World. London: Routledge, 281-294. 

“Why is Romance Political?” Invited contribution to Indrajit Roy (ed.) Passionate politics: Democracy, Development and India's 2019 General Election. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 128-136.  

“What do Young People Want from Elections?” Invited contribution to Indrajit Roy (ed.) Passionate politics: Democracy, Development and India's 2019 General Election. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 148-156. 

2021

“Where do Good Girls Have Sex? Space, Risk and Respectability in Chennai”, Gender, Place and Culture 28, no. 7: 999-1018.  

2020

“Scooty Girls are Safe Girls: Risk, Respectability and Brand Assemblages in Urban India”, Social and Cultural Geography, 23, no. 3: 424-442.

“Dreaming of Addis Ababa: In the Afterlives of Inter-War Christian Internationalism”. Invited contribution to Kumi Silva and Margaret Franz (eds.), Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland. New York: Routledge, 117–124.

2019

“Clubbing in the Afternoon: Worlding the City as a College-Girl in Chennai”, City, Culture, and Society 19, December (Special Section on Subcultures in Worlding Asian Cities: Strategies, Prospects, Outcomes; Guest edited by June Wang, T.C. Chang, Justin O’Connor): Article 100274.

“Killing Us Slowly: Pre‐Empting Suicide at a Women’s Hostel in Chennai.” Antipode 51, no. 1: 1515-1533. 

2018

“Doing Nothing: Gender, Respectability and Playing with Time”, Voices, 13, no. 1: 62-73.

“Bitch don’t be a lesbian: Selfies, Selves and Same-Sex Desire”. Invited contribution to Dasgupta, R. and Dasgupta, D. (eds.) Queering Digital India: Activisms, Identities, Subjectivities. New York: Oxford University Press, 151-164. 

“Style-ish Girls and Local Boys: Young Women and Fashion in Chennai”. Invited contribution to Lewis, R. Begum, L. and Dasgupta, R. (eds.), Styling South Asian Youth Cultures: Fashion, Media and Society. London: IB Tauris, 49-64. 

2017

“Anxious Notes on College Life: The Gossipy Journals of Eleanor McDougall”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 27 no.4: 575-589.

“Feeling Modern: The History of Emotions in Urban South Asia”. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 27 no. 4: 539-557 (with Elizabeth Chatterjee and Megan Robb).

2016

“Agency, intimacy, and rape jokes: an ethnographic study of young women and sexual risk in Chennai”. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22 no.1: 67-83.

“Responding to Rape: Feminism and Young Middle-Class Women in India” in Alston, M. (ed.) Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 19-32.