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Soma Basu
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Thanks, @jaffrelot.bsky.social, for this brilliant introduction to the #BASAS @csajournal.bsky.social Special Issue: New Forms of Anti-Muslim Violence in India: Hindu Xenophobia in the Post-Instrumental Era. Introduction link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comIntroduction – new forms of anti-Muslim violence in India: Hindu Xenophobia in the post-instrumental EraViolence between Hindus and Muslims in India has traditionally taken a single form – the riot. The interpretation of this phenomenon has changed over time. First, it was marked by ‘primordialism,’ ...

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Soma Basu
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Reposting my article from the special issue. Link: doi.org/10.1080/0958... It shows how an ordinary, neglected municipal infrastructure becomes a haunted social archive: a place where bodies, rumours, imagination, and memory gather to keep violence alive in everyday life.

doi.orgPhantoms of the drains: imaginations of conflict in everyday infrastructuresThis article traces how the network of ordinary municipal drains (nullahs) in Northeast Delhi became a ‘trauma trove’ in the aftermath of the 2020 Delhi pogrom. Drawing on three years of sensory et...
Soma Basu
@somabasu.com

Derrida’s #hauntology and Avery Gordon’s #InfrastructuralHaunting help me understand the nullah as infrastructure through which unresolved histories, rumours, and trauma become socially present. Thanks @csajournal.bsky.social, @americananthro.bsky.social, #BASAS for reviews+feedback.

doi.orgPhantoms of the drains: imaginations of conflict in everyday infrastructuresThis article traces how the network of ordinary municipal drains (nullahs) in Northeast Delhi became a ‘trauma trove’ in the aftermath of the 2020 Delhi pogrom. Drawing on three years of sensory et...