Abstract: In this essay, I focus on what has been characterized as a perennial problem for the Hindi film industry — the inability to accurately measure commercial outcome. While commentators and industry personnel criticize and …
Abstract: In this article I focus on prediction in an Indian gambling market. The article is based on my long-term fieldwork at Delhi Racecourse, which offered a microcosm in which to examine speculations on future uncertainty. I…
Abstract: Capitalism, normally considered the zenith of scientism, techno-rationality, and calculative reason, can fruitfully be seen as just the opposite of these things. It can be considered the dreamwork of industrial modernit…
Abstract: In May 2014, the editors of CSSAAME hosted a discussion with the Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander about artistic practice and its role in deconstructing (and reframing) the often vexed relationship Eurocentric…
Abstract: This article investigates miniature painter Shahzia Sikander’s work in animation. It begins by providing background on Sikander’s earlier animation work since 2001 and by exploring the use of sound, image, and digital t…
Abstract: This essay introduces the special section “The Politics of Feminist Politics,” which brings together the work of feminist scholars of the Middle East and South Asia to highlight the silences, exclusions, and occlusions …
Abstract: My argument revolves around two distinct but entangled lines of inquiry. The first considers the spectacle of Muslim female injury/vulnerability in relation to projects of global solidarity and sisterhood. In light of t…
Abstract: After the euphoria of the first waves of the Arab uprisings that toppled two heads of state in Tunisia and Egypt, the woman’s body became the frontline of the protest scene. The unitary mass-revolutionary body that mark…
Abstract: Speculation structures the unprecedented breadth and depth of contemporary global capitalism. We define it as an engagement with uncertainty that aims to materialize potential futures. Studies of economization and finan…
Abstract: In this article, I theorize the phenomenon of specific women being taken up periodically to represent the collectivity of Muslim women — and, relationally, reveal characteristics about the collectivity of Muslim men — b…