South Asia on the Move

Mobilities, Mobilizations, Maneuvers

Benjamin Linder, Tarini Bedi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040787625
• Subtopic: Emigration & Immigration
• Index: Social Sciences

This book sustains and expands the new mobilities paradigm by focusing such theoretical advances on South Asian scholarship. When it comes to analytical approaches to movement, the mobilities turn has been tremendously provocative, particularly in the last twenty years. However, much of that literature remains rooted in the priorities, ontologies, and geographies of the West/Global North. This volume extends earlier approaches by centering South Asia as a critical site through which scholars can advance new empirical research, develop fresh theoretical tools, diversify mobilities studies, and pose a challenge to predominant models. Through a diverse set of interdisciplinary chapters, South Asia on the Move makes a sustained argument about the value of decentering (im)mobilities research. In so doing, the collection redirects the regional, theoretical, and methodological foci of the mobilities turn, demonstrating the relevance of South Asia for thinking about varieties of movement within the region and around the world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publications
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• 1 Introduction: South Asia on the Move
• 2 Gendering Distance: Marriage and Mobility in Bangladesh’s Riverine Borderlands
• 3 At the Love Commandos: Narratives of Mobility Among Intercaste Couples in a Delhi Safe House
• 4 Driving While Tamil: Policing as a Regime of Mobility in Postwar Jaffna, Sri Lanka
• 5 Adventure Time: Adventure Tourism and the “Annihilation of Space by Time” in Nepal
• 6 After Eat, Pray, Love: Tourism, Orientalism, and Cartographies of Salvation
• 7 The Mobility of Regional Labor Hierarchies: Nepali Employment and Entrepreneurialism in the “South Asian” Gas Stations of North Texas
• 8 Sometimes She Stands Like a Statue: Immobility in the Archives of Colonial Psychiatry
• 9 Disability on the Move: Disabled Mobilities in Contemporary India
• 10 Conclusion: Thinking Theory, Pedagogy, Method
• Index