Department of History, School of History, Religions and Philosophies & Department of Philosophy

Dr James Caron

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Roles: Department of History Lecturer in Islamicate South Asia Academic Staff, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Department: Department of History, School of History, Religions and Philosophies & Department of Philosophy
Qualifications: BA (Temple); PhD (Pennsylvania)
Building: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office: 316
Email address: jc84@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number: +44 (0)20 7898 4295

PhD Supervision

Name	Title
Sayed Yaqoob Emad	The Changing Politics of Islamic Charities in Afghanistan: The Case of Ji
Rabia Latif Khan	Narrative, memory and belonging: Constructing a ‘Hazara identity’ abroad
Alice Emmanuelle Lyzcia
Florence Shahabi	Sayyid Bahodine Majrouh: an intellectual biography

Publications

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Email: jc84@soas.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7898 4295

School of History, Religions and Philosophies

The School specialises in teaching and researching the history, religion, and philosophy of the Global South in a critical, decolonial, and interdisciplinary manner.

Department of History & School of History, Religions and Philosophies

MA History

MA History at SOAS University of London

School of History, Religions and Philosophies

Jaina-Prosopography: Monastic Lineages, Networks and Patronage

Exploring the relationships between Jaina mendicant lineages and their supporters.

Dr James Caron

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PhD Supervision

Publications

Articles Open

Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’

Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence

Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan

Why Decenter the "War on Terror" in Histories of the "War on Terror"?

Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation

Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge

Borderland Historiography in Pakistan

Sufism and Liberation across the Indo-Afghan Border: 1880-1928

Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia

Activism, knowledge and publishing: some views from Pakistan and Afghanistan

The Lives of Amir Hamza Shinwari: on personal histories against an imperial border

Elite Pasts and Subaltern Potentialities: Roundtable on the Future of Afghanistan Historiography

Reading the Power of Printed Orality in Afghanistan: Popular Pashto Literature as Historical Evidence and Public Intervention

Afghanistan Historiography and Pashtun Islam: Modernization Theory's Afterimage

Book Chapters Open

Social Inequality and Ideological Circulation: Speaking for and against the Patriarchal State, 1930-1960

Ambiguities of Orality and Literacy, Territory and Border Crossings: Public Activism and Pashto Literature in Afghanistan, 1930-2010

Taliban, Real and Imagined

Thesis Open

Iranian Identity and Imperial State Formation ca. 1720–1750

The Interface Between Literature and Ideology in Post-Independence India: Hindi Progressive Novels of the 1950s

Demarcating the Contours of the Deobandi tradition via a study of the 'Akābirīn'

On marginality and overcoming: Narrative, memory and identity among British Hazaras

Other Open

The Photograph Trade (Da 'Aksuno Bazar) [Translation]

Faces and Thoughts (Tsire aw Andixene) [Translation]

Sulamal's Work in Historical Context; Sulamal as Critical Historian: Preface

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