![]() ![]() At the same time analytical and conceptual frames for studying the region have sought to break out of the gilded cage of methodological nationalism and embrace regional and transregional spatial units, such as the recent turn towards Inter Asia, Africa-Asia, and the Indian Ocean. Global pandemics, surveillance regimes, and border fences engender old and new forms of captivity and incarceration throughout South Asia. ![]() These questions urge us to consider mobility and immobility anew. How do ethnic, caste, and racial hierarchies in South Asia interact with those elsewhere as people, ideas, and goods move in and out? How are flows and networks of capital reconfigured within existing and new hierarchies of im/mobility? How might a focus on things/people/ideas that move “in and out” help us conceptualize new ways of imagining and engaging South Asia? (please view in advance of the conference) ![]()
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