• Ectogenesis, co-pregnancy and the politics of reproductive labour in the growing season: an interview with Helen Sedgwick 

  Roy, Aditi Barman; Banerjee, Sarbani; Chattopadhyay, Arka (Taylor and Francis, 2025-07)

  This interview with the biophysicist and author Helen Sedgwick explores the politics of reproductive labour and co-pregnancy in her novel The Growing Season (2017). The conversation touches on the role of emerging reproductive ...
• Textures of the Earth: notes from rural Birbhum in the short stories of Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay 

  Gayen, Sohini; Rath, Arnapurna (Intellect Publishers, 2025-04)

  The vision of the ‘rural’ in Indian literary and aesthetic traditions is significant for a critical interpretation of literary and cultural texts emerging from India. This article presents a critical reading of select short ...
• Writing care: narrative strategies and corporeal realities in Carmen Maria Machado's in the dream house 

  Varghese, Angel Maria; Chattopadhyay, Arka (University of Groningen Press, 2025)

  In this paper, we analyze Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir In the Dream House (2019), focusing on care and corporeality, attending to the intricacies of its narrative form. We argue that Machado not only presents abuse, care, ...
• Multifaceted livelihood relations of local communities with the Indian Sundarbans mangroves 

  Biswas, Camellia; Channarayapatna, Sharada; Pandey, C. N. (Springer, 2025-06)

  We explore the intricate dynamics of traditions alongside environmental challenges and subsequent modern adaptations in selected villages of the Sundarbans region that extend beyond livelihood earnings. Using oral narratives, ...
• Politics of transtextual influence: on Angela Moorjani's Beckett and Buddhism 

  Chattopadhyay, Arka (Brill Academic Publishers, 2025-05)

  This article focuses on Angela Moorjani’s book Beckett and Buddhism (2021) to advance a transtextual framework for understanding Beckett’s Buddhist and non-European influences. Though ‘transtext’ is mentioned by Moorjani, ...
• Things unchanged: online and offline practice of an Indian first-year composition curriculum 

  Kim, Jooyoung (Frontiers Media, 2025)

  The shape of classroom and learning in higher education has transformed during the COVID-19 pandemic in a way of increasing leaners' socialization and connectedness in the virtual setting. This paper examines four years' ...
• Environmental Humanities South: decolonizing nature in highland Asia 

  Yü, Dan Smyer; Aiyadurai, Ambika; Dai, Mamang; Delley, Razzeko; Deshar, Rashila; Iqbal, Iftekhar; Truong, Chi Huyen; Das, Bhargabi; Lepcha, Mongfing; Dema, Thinley; Koirala, Madan; Khalid, Zainab; Ma, Zhen (MDPI, 2025-06)

  We, a group of native scholars based in the Himalayan region, co-author this article to propose an environmental humanities South—concurrently as an Asia-specific interdisciplinary field and a planetary human–nature ...
• A geospatial assessment of flood risk to archaeological sites using multicriteria decision making and analytical hierarchy process 

  Kadapa, Haritha (Geographia Technica Association, 2025-03)

  South Asia's rich cultural heritage is prominently reflected in its archaeological sites. The Indus Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, thrived in what is now India and Pakistan from the mid-third ...
• The continued evolution of the diagnosis of personality disorders 

  Coolidge, Frederick L.; Segal, Daniel L.; Srivastava, Apeksha; Sadaphal, Dhwani P. (University of Groningen Press, 2025-03)

  This paper traces the evolution of the diagnostic formulations for personality disorders (PDs) through the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR; American Psychiatric Association, 2022) ...
• The role of time spent in unpaid domestic work on educational outcomes among adolescents and young adults: quantitative evidence from India 

  Sharma, Anupam Joya; Shah, Ankita (Springer, 2025-12)

  Higher education among youth is crucial for India’s socio-economic development. Despite policy efforts, challenges persist in retaining students beyond elementary school and improving inclusivity and education quality. ...
• Rural to urban migration and discourses of linguistic authenticity in multilingual Nagaland 

  Longkumer, Sakuntala (Atu); Choksi, Nishaant (Taylor and Francis, 2025-02)

  This paper looks at how the process of rural-urban migration to multilingual cities has led to diverging language ideologies and new markers of indigenous identity. We discuss two contrasting discourses of authenticity ...
• Shopping in the human body store: the biopolitical logic of organ commodification in Ninni Holmqvist's the unit 

  Roy, Aditi Barman; Banerjee, Sarbani; Chattopadhyay, Arka (Taylor and Francis, 2025-02)

  This study examines Ninni Holmqvist’s speculative novel, The Unit (2009), first published in Swedish as Enhet (2006), to argue how literary representations of organ harvesting present the human body as a marketable commodity ...
• Sial and the Zo: understanding human-mithun relations in Sialkal Range, Mizoram 

  Naulak, Nenggousuan; Aiyadurai, Ambika; Khiangte, Krista R. (Center for Multidisciplinary Research, Tezpur University, 2025-01)

  This study explores the multifaceted relations between the Zo people and the mithun (Bos frontalis), locally known as ‘sial,’ a culturally significant animal in Northeast India. Focusing on the Sialkal Range in Mizoram, ...
• Wildlife trapping technology of Arunachal Pradesh 

  Aiyadurai, Ambika (Springer, 2024-12)

  Hunting and trapping of wild animals was banned by India’s Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. While the state terms it an illegal activity, various social science scholars believe it is a source of livelihood for people ...
• Bird names and bird language in the Noiri Bhili of the Narmada Valley: an anthropological linguistic study 

  Vasava, Jitendra; Choksi, Nishaant (Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, 2025)
• Epistemological dimensions of indigenous honey collection in the Kattunaicken community of South India 

  Sebastian, Antony Jacob (Wiley, 2025-01)

  Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK) has proven effective in environmental governance, forest management, and sustainable development, yet it is threatened by globalization and rapid social–ecological changes. In southern ...
• A conversation on the plastic and plasticity with Professor Catherine Malabou and Professor Ranjan Ghosh 

  Chattopadhyay, Arka; Rose, Arthur (Penn State University Press, 2025-01)
• Does form entail function? understanding pottery functionalities through absorbed residues within ceramics from the Harappan sites of Karanpura and Ropar in India 

  Ghosh, Ahana; Prabhakar, V. N.; Reber, Eleanora A.; Liston, Helna; Kirubakaran, Sivapriya; Sreelakshmi K. S.; Talekar, Umesh; Bhardwaj, Mukesh; Vishwakarma, Abhay; Channarayapatna, Sharada (Elsevier, 2025-03)

  The Harappan Culture emerged in the Indus-Saraswati Region, with sites spreading over present-day northwest India, Gujarat, Pakistan, and Afghanistan between 2600 and 1900 BCE. Harappan sites have yielded extensive structural ...
• Plastic onto-logic of relation and non-relation: Ghosh avec Malabou 

  Chattopadhyay, Arka (Penn State University Press, 2025-01)

  This article connects Ranjan Ghosh’s arguments on the plastic matter in The Plastic Turn (2022) with Catherine Malabou’s work on plasticity. It compares the logic of plastic matter with the notion of plasticity as not only ...
• Introduction: plastic, plastic everywhere 

  Chattopadhyay, Arka (Penn State University Press, 2025-01)

  Plastic is everywhere, all around us, and yet do we see it? What does the plastic gyre in the North Pacific tell us? Much like climate crisis, often considered intangible, plastic deposition on the surface of the earth is ...

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