Books:
Insecurities of Expulsion: Citizenship and Afro-South Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda. Duke University Press, in press.
Research featured in The Economist, November 2022.
Selected Book Chapters, Journal Issues, and Articles:
2023. “Sikhs in/of Africa: Imperial, Postcolonial, Transnational Articulations.” In The Sikh World, eds. Pashaura Singh and Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair. Routledge.
2022. “Fifty Years On: The 1972 Asian Expulsion as Continuous Event, Or the Insecurities of Expulsion.” Journal of African Literature Association. Invited Contribution. Special Issue on “Asian Presence in East Africa.” Guest Editors Gaurav Desai and James Ocita.
2022. “On Blue Economies: Afro-Asianism, Imperial Entanglements, Geopolitics.” American Anthropologist website, August 4th. In Vitalpolitics, “An Anthropology of Geopolitics.” Guest Editors Kristin Peterson and Samar Al-Bulushi.
2019. “Thinking the 21st Century Neoliberal Research University: Preliminary Reflections on Opportunity, Risk and Solidarity at the New UC.” Co-authored with Ma Vang. Critical Ethnic Studies. Special Issue on “Solidarities of Nonalignment: Abolition, Decolonization, and Anticapitalism.” Guest Editors Michael Viola, Juliana Hu Pegues, Iyko Day, and Dean Saranillio. Vol 5, Issue 1/2. Pp. 174-203.
2019 “Decolonizing Diversity: The Transnational Politics of Minority Racial Difference.” Public Culture. Vol. 31, Issue 2. Special Issue on “Interrogating Diversity.” Guest Editors Damani Partridge and Matthew Chin. Pp. 289-322.
2019. “What is the Transnational in Transnational Feminist Research?” Feminist Review. With Johanna Pares Hoare and Ioana Szeman. Special Issue on “Transnational Feminist Research.” Vol. 121, Issue 1. Pp. 3-8.
2019. “Postcolonial Patriarchal Nativism, Domestic Violence and Transnational Feminist Research in Uganda.” Feminist Review. Special Issue on “Transnational Feminist Research.” Vol. 121, Issue 1. Pp. 37-52.
2019. “Political Society and Postcolonial Insecurity: Reflections on the Study of Citizenship, ‘Asian Community’ and Political Practice in Uganda.”Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Special Issue on “Political Society in Africa and South Asia.” Guest Editors Ruchi Chaturvedi and Antina von Schnitzler. Vol. 39, Issue 1. Pp. 8-23.
2018. “African Asians and South Asians in Neoliberal Uganda: Culture, History, Political Economy” in Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation. Eds. Jorg Wiegratz, Guiliano Martiniello and Elisa Greco. Zed Press. Pp. 285-302.
2018. “1970s Uganda: Past, Present, Future.” Journal of Asian and African Studies. Vol. 53(3): 455-475.
2018. “Sikh Diasporic Feminisms: Provocation 1.” Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory. Vol. 13, Issue 4. Pp. 237-240.
2013. “Exceptions to the Expulsion: Violence, Security and Community among Ugandan Asians, 1972-79.” Journal of Eastern African Studies. Special Issue on “1970s Uganda.” Guest Editors Derek Peterson and Edgar Curtis Taylor. Vol. 7, Issue 1. Pp. 164-182.
2012. “After Wisconsin: Registers of Sikh Precarity in the Alien-Nation.” Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory Vol. 8, Issue 3. Pp. 287-291.
2010 . “Avoiding Race-Avoidance? Anthropologists and Affirmative Action.” Michigan Discussions in Anthropology. Vol. 18, Pp. 209-242.
Other Anthropology Publications:
2017 . “Teaching Uncertainty, Disrupting Nativism. An Interview with Anneeth Kaur Hundle. “Teaching Uncertainty” Series. Cultural Anthropology. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1181-teaching-uncertainty-disrupting-nativism-with-anneeth-kaur-hundle
2017. “Disrupting Nativism, Part One.” Anthropology News. January 26. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2017/01/26/disrupting-nativism-part-one/
2017. “Disrupting Nativism, Part Two.” Anthropology News. January 27. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2017/01/26/disrupting-nativism-part-two/
2008. “Organizing ADI: Race, Affirmative Action, and Anthropology at the University of Michigan.”Anthropology News. January:17-18
Book Reviews:
2018. The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations: Violence, Memory, Agency, by Michael Nijhawan. American Ethnologist. Vol. 45, No. 2. Pp. 302-303.
2016. Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality, by Purnima Mankekar, Duke University Press. Book Review. Anthropological Quarterly. Vol. 89, No. 2. Pp. 619-626.
2016. “Violence Exceptional and Unexceptional.” Review of Idi Amin’s Shadow: Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda, by Alicia C. Decker, Ohio University Press. Journal of African History. Vol. 57(2). Pp. 288-289.
Popular Press and Blogs:
2018. “In, Of and Out of the UC: Reflections on the 150th Anniversary Symposium of the UC Academic Senate.” Remaking the University blog. December 18. http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2018/12/in-of-and-out-of-uc.html
2017. “Uganda’s Colonial-Style Dress Code.”Aljazeera. August 13.
2015. “Of Militarization and Mini-Skirts: Sovereignty and Sexuality in Urban Uganda.” The Los Angeles Review of Books (Solicited Submission). December 14. https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/of-militarization-and-miniskirts-sovereignty-and-sexuality-in-urban-uganda
2013. “Jeffrey Gettleman’s Profile of Paul Kagame, ‘The Global Elite’s Favorite Strongman.” Africa is a Country. September 6. http://africasacountry.com/2013/09/jeffrey-gettlemans-profile-of-paul-kagame-the-global-elites-favorite-strongman/