Dr James Caron

Department of History, School of History, Religions & Philosophies

Lecturer in Islamicate South Asia

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

Lecturer in Islamicate South Asia

Centre for the Study of Pakistan

Academic Staff, Centre for the Study of Pakistan

Academic Board

Member

Name:: Dr James Caron
Email address:: jc84@soas.ac.uk
Telephone:: +44 (0)20 7898 4295
Address:: SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:: 316
Academic Support Hours:: Wednesdays 17:00-18:30

Teaching

Programmes Convened

Modules Taught

PhD Students supervised

Florence Shahabi, Sayyid Bahodine Majrouh: an intellectual biography
Jack Clift, Historical fiction and historical imagination in Hindi and Urdu literature
Rabia Latif Khan, Narrative, memory and belonging: Constructing a ‘Hazara identity’ abroad

Publications

Articles

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Caron, James (2019) 'Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge'. Geopolitics, (24) 2, pp 444-461.

Caron, James (2016) 'Borderland Historiography in Pakistan'. South Asian History and Culture, (7) 4, pp 327-345.

Caron, James (2016) 'Sufism and Liberation across the Indo-Afghan Border: 1880-1928'. South Asian History and Culture, (7) 2, pp 135-154.

Caron, James and Dasgupta, Ananya (2016) 'Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia'. South Asian History and Culture, (7) 2, pp 107-116.

Caron, James and Ahmad, Mahvish (2015) 'Activism, knowledge and publishing: some views from Pakistan and Afghanistan'. South Asian History and Culture, (7) 1, pp 30-36.

Caron, James (2015) 'The Lives of Amir Hamza Shinwari: on personal histories against an imperial border'. Tanqeed | a magazine of politics and culture, (10), pp 43-53.

Caron, James (2013) 'Elite Pasts and Subaltern Potentialities: Roundtable on the Future of Afghanistan Historiography'. International Journal of Middle East Studies, (45) 1, pp 138-141.

Caron, James (2011) 'Reading the Power of Printed Orality in Afghanistan: Popular Pashto Literature as Historical Evidence and Public Intervention'. The Journal of Social History, (45) 1, pp 172-194.

Caron, James (2007) 'Afghanistan Historiography and Pashtun Islam: Modernization Theory's Afterimage'. History Compass, (5) 1, pp 314-329.

Book Chapters

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Caron, James (2017) 'Social Inequality and Ideological Circulation: Speaking for and against the Patriarchal State, 1930-1960'. Power Hierarchies and Hegemony in Afghanistan. London: I. B. Tauris. [Forthcoming]

Caron, James (2013) 'Ambiguities of Orality and Literacy, Territory and Border Crossings: Public Activism and Pashto Literature in Afghanistan, 1930-2010'. In: Green, Nile and Arbabzadah, Nushin, (eds.), Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation. London: Hurst.

Caron, James (2012) 'Taliban, Real and Imagined'. In: Bashir, Shahzad and Crews, Robert D, (eds.), Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.