Selected Academic Publications
Single-authored Research Papers & Book Chapters
Design, Education and the Moulding of Different Futures in the Anthropocene. In: Design Beyond the Human: Transdisciplinary Conversations About the Planet. Caccavale, E. and Hush, G., eds. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025.
The Visual Image and Imagination of Alternative Futures. In: Education through the Language Arts: Interdisciplinary and Creative Approaches to Fostering Ecoliteracy. McGuinn, N. and Naylor, A., eds. London: Routledge, 2024.
Slowing Down the Ethnographic Gaze through Observational Videomaking. In:The Creative Ethnographer’s Notebook: Exercises for Writing, Visualizing, Sounding and Performing Data. Jacobsen, K. and Cahnmann-Taylor, M., eds. New York: Routledge, 2024.
“Sustaining a social movement through infrastructural followup: activist pedagogies and prefigurative politics in Narmada Bachao Andolan’s schools for life (jeevanshalas),” Social Movement Studies (2024)
“Pandemic Response, Cultural Anthropology, and "The Myth of the Caring Society." In: Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences. Sutoris, P., Mendes Borges, A., Murphy, S., and Nehushtan, Y., eds. London: Routledge, 2022.
“Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope: Cultural landscapes of schooling in Wentworth, South Africa,” Ethnography (2022)
“Environmental Futures through Children’s Eyes: Slow Observational Participatory Videomaking and Multi-Sited Ethnography,” Visual Anthropology Review 37:2 (2021)
"Politicising ESE in postcolonial settings: the power of historical responsibility, action and ethnography," Environmental Education Research 25:4 (2019)
"Ethically scaling up interventions in educational development: a case for collaborative multi-sited ethnographic research," Comparative Education 54:3 (2018)
"Elitism and its challengers: Educational development ideology in postcolonial India through the prism of film, 1950–1970," International Journal of Educational Development 60 (May 2018)
Co-authored Research Papers & Book Chapters
“The Role of Social Sciences and Humanities at a Time of Global Crisis.” In: Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences. Sutoris, P., Mendes Borges, A., Murphy, S., and Nehushtan, Y., eds. London: Routledge, 2022. [With S. Murphy]
“Toward a “New Humanism”? Time and Emotion in UNESCO’s Science of World-Making, 1947-1951,” Journal of World History 32:4 (2021) [with K. Myers and A. Sriprakash]
Poverty and Education in South Asia. In Sarangapani, P., Pappu R. (eds.) Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. Springer (2020) [with A. Naveed]
“The Science of Childhood and the Pedagogy of the State: Postcolonial Development in India, 1950s,” Journal Of Historical Sociology 32:3 (2019) [with A. Sriprakash and K. Myers]
Edited Books
Sutoris, P., Mendes Borges, A., Murphy, S., & Nehushtan, Y. Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences. London: Routledge, 2022.