James Caron

Programmes Convened

• MA Postcolonial Studies
• MA Religion in Global Politics

Courses Taught

• Directed Readings in a South Asian Literature or Culture (Urdu)
• Imagining Pakistan (PG)
• Imagining Pakistan: Culture, Politics, Gender
• The Politics of Culture in Contemporary South Asia

PhD Students supervised

• Florence Shahabi, Sayyid Bahodine Majrouh: an intellectual biography
• Rabia Latif Khan, Narrative, memory and belonging: Constructing a ‘Hazara identity’ abroad
• S. Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Young Women’s Visual Knowledge Production in Kabul: Making Contemporary Art in Times of On-going Insecurities

Articles

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.

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.

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

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.

Other

Caron, James (2012) 'Sulamal's Work in Historical Context; Sulamal as Critical Historian: Preface'.

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