South Asia on the Move

This book extends the so-called new mobilities paradigm by focusing such theoretical advances on South Asian scholarship. When it comes to analytical approaches to movement, the intellectual trajectory of mobilities work has been tremendously provocative, particularly in the last fifteen years. However, much of that literature remains deeply rooted in Western/Northern geographies, ontologies, and priorities. This volume pushes beyond those earlier approaches to center South Asia as a critical site through which scholars can advance new theoretical and empirical research, diversify extant mobilities studies, and pose a challenge to Western models. Through a diverse set of interdisciplinary chapters, the collection makes a sustained argument about the value of decentering (im)mobilities research. In so doing, South Asia on the Move redirects the regional, theoretical, and methodological foci of the mobilities turn, demonstrating the relevance of South Asia for thinking about movement within the region and around the world.