Books on “Violence” looking for reviewers #AnthroViolence
It has been a stimulating week at Allegra, with many fabulous posts by anthropologists working on ‘violence’. If you missed […]
Medicine at the Margins: Conflict, Sectarianism and Health Governance in Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit Town, the administrative capital of the impoverished, neglected and semi-autonomous Gilgit-Baltistan region in northern Pakistan, has been at the
Transitional Justice and the Critique of Violence
The African continent has been at the forefront of experiments with transitional justice. There have been amnesties, truth commissions, criminal
City of Fear: Everyday experience of insecurity in Lyari (Karachi)
I first visited Lyari in August 2012 when I joined Laurent Gayer in conducting a focus group discussion with members
Mumbai (1992-93) and Ahmedabad (2002), a tale of two cities: Narratives of violent and victimized women enduring urban riots in India
Brief extract from a forthcoming publication  Over the past decades, the rapid rise of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva in