Jonathan S Anjaria

Professor of Anthropology

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Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi, by D. Asher Ghertner: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, 272 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780199385577

by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria

Published 10/02/2017

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 40, 4, 921 - 922

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Book Reviews--South Asia: Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City

by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria

Published 08/01/2015

The Journal of Asian Studies, 74, 3, 773

Journalists, pointing to the street battles, bombings, and homicides since the 1970s call it "the world's most dangerous city" and "a metropolis under siege. Migration, ethnic identity formation, the militarization of student politics, drug smuggling, gun running, informal housing, and the destructive effects of being in the epicenter of geopolitical conflicts all find their way into this far-reaching book. The source of urban violence, Gayer argues, is not located in the ideology of its participants, but in the "structure of political opportunities" as well as the "transformation in technologies of warfare" and "interconnections [with a] changing local, national and international environment" (p. 76).

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Book Review - Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity

by JONATHAN SHAPIRO Anjaria

Published 08/2015

American Ethnologist, 42, 3, 538 - 540