Ravinder Kaur

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Ravinder Kaur er lektor i moderne indien- og sydasienstudier. Hun er desuden centerleder for Centre of Global South-Asian Studies. Hendes nuværende forskning har fokus på globale transformationer, særlig Indiens transformation fra postkoloni til vækstmarked i det 21. århundredes globale politiske økonomi.

Hun arbejder på tværs af historie, antropologi, og internationale politik. Hun er og har været Primary Investigator af to  kollektive projekter ‘Emerging Worlds: Explorations of New South-South Connections’ (2014-2019)‘ og Nation in Motion: Globalization, Governance and Development in New India’ (2010-2015 - afsluttet)

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Books/Special Issues (selected)

Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First Century India (Stanford University Press 2020)

Since 1947: Partition Narratives among Punjabi Migrants of Delhi', Oxford University Press, 2007 (new edition 2018)

Social Mobility in post-reform India, Special Issue, Contemporary South Asia, Volume 24, Issue 3 (Co-editor: Nandini Sundar, September 2016)

Aesthetics of Arrival: Spectacle, Capital, Novelty in India, Special issue, Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, Volume 23, Number 3 (co-editor: Thomas Blom Hansen, 2016)

Journal Articles (selected)

'World as Commodity: Or, How the "Third World" Became an "Emerging Market"', Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2018, Volume 38(2): 377-395

'I am India Shining: The Investor Citizen and the Indelible Icon of Good Times', Journal of Asian Studies,  2016, Volume 75 (3): 621-648

Writing History in a Paperless World: Archives of the Future, History Workshop Journal, Spring 2015, Volume 79, Number 1, 242-253

'Distinctive Citizenship: Refugees, Subjects and Postcolonial State in India’s Partition', Cultural and Social History, Volume 6, Number 4, 429-446. 2009.

Reviews of my book "Since 1947" (selected)

Mushirul Hassan, Outlook India; Urvashi Butalia, Financial Express; Ian Talbot, H-Net Asia; Michael Hawley, Journal of Asian Studies; Satish Saberwal, Contributions to Indian Sociology; Antony Copley, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society; Suparna Banerjee Refugee Watch; Shalini Sharma, Journal of Punjab Studies; Tahir Kamran, Journal of Punjab Studies; Katja Rikkonen, Journal of South Asian Development; Harsh Mander, Seminar;  Asian Affairs; Jennifer Hyndman 

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Core Courses

• Videnskabsteori
• Globalilzation and Development in South Asia
• South Asian Societies
• Introduction to India and South Asia

PhD Supervision

• I welcome PhD supervision in broad areas of contemporary history, politics, and anthropology of South Asia. Specifically, my area of expertise relates to the making of the postcolonial State, nation and nationalism; visual politics, histories of the Third World, emerging markets, refugee resettlement, Partition memory and citizenship.