Recent peer-reviewed publications on Kerala. We circulate news of 100+ such Kerala studies a year.

Books

(Open Access) Cerulli, Anthony. The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022.

Kooria, Mahmood. Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi’i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Mathew, Leya. English Linguistic Imperialism from Below: Moral Aspiration and Social Mobility. Critical Language and Literacy Studies. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2022.

Book chapters

Irshad, S. Mohammed. ‘Local Clubs and Sports Culture in Kerala: Community at the Centre’. In Sports Studies in India: Expanding the Field, edited by Padma Prakash, Meena Gopal, and Sujata Patel, 196–204. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Varughese, Shiju Sam. ‘Cultural Politics of Engagement: Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and the Shaping of a Scientific-Citizen Public in Kerala’. In History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India, edited by Suvobrata Sarkar, 79–95. London: Routledge India, 2022.

Journal articles

Joseph, Jenson. ‘Contemporary Television and the Concept of Transparency’. Studies in South Asian Film & Media 13, no. 1 (January 2022): 3–18.

(Open Access) Kaul, Nitasha, and Nisar Kannangara. ‘The Persistence of Political Power: A Communist “Party Village” in Kerala and the Paradox of Egalitarian Hierarchies’. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. Published ahead of print, 16 October 2021.

(Open Access) Roopesh, O. B. ‘Educating “Temple Cultures” Heterogeneous Worship and Hindutva Politics in Kerala’. Sociological Bulletin 70, no. 4 (October 2021): 485–501.

(Open Access) Santhosh, R., and Emil Mathew. ‘Social Reintegration of Released Prisoners: An Empirical Analysis from Two Indian States’. International Annals of Criminology 59, no. 2 (November 2021): 200–222.

Shankar, Devika. ‘A Slippery Sovereignty: International Law and the Development of British Cochin’. Comparative Studies in Society and History. Published ahead of print, 1 April 2022.

Updated: May 2022

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