Arafaat A. Valiani

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Assistant Professor of Sociology

BA Concordia University
MA LSE/SOAS
PhD Columbia University

MAJOR INTERESTS

Violence and militancy
Historical sociology
History and politics of modern South Asia
Space and place

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

"Cultural Heritage and the Making of Militant Political Subjects in Twentieth Century Indian Nationalism—A Preliminary Outline," forthcoming in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
"Violence"--Entry for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (forthcoming, 2007)
Formations of Dissent: Militancy and Violence in Gujarat (1928-2002). PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2005

SELECTED RECENT MEETING PAPERS

"Formations of Dissent: On the Possible Origins of Militancy in Colonial Gujarat"
"'Contentious Spaces': Urban Space and Planning in Postcolonial Ahmedabad, Gujarat"
"Enracination in the Field: 'Fever' and Expectation in the Archive"
"The Career of Colonial Forms of Knowledge: State Institutions in Modern India"