Borderlines CSSAAME

Some of my thoughts on publics and politics today @BCssaame borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2025/10/…

"Shadow Knowledges: On Secrecy and the Communicative State" by Mehak Sawhney (@meh_heck) borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2025/11/…

"Influencers and the Changing Political Landscape of India" by Joyojeet Pal borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2025/11/…

Borderlines inaugurates a new occasional series - Technopolitics of the Global South - beginning with introductory framings by Arvind Rajagopal and Francis Cody ( @francispcody1 ), who have curated this dossier. borderlines-cssaame.org/posts?tag=Tech…

Our many thanks to Samantha DeNinno for all the editorial and curatorial support.

The Ambedkar Initiative hosted this series of conversations where the focus was on the radical capacity of words, images, and sound to reorder the perceptual field, and to engage critically with lifeworlds of caste.

We have the first conversation in a new series "In Their Words: Reflections on Dalit Art and Aesthetics", between Prabhakar Kamble and Anupama Rao,discussing art practice, the work of the hand and the eye, aesthetic training, and the politics of reception. borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2025/4/1…

New publication out — This brilliant, innovative essay by ⁦@marelashmawy⁩ explores the genre of taqriz (commendations) in the modern Egyptian press, unveiling the scholarly and affective “ego networks” that this genre forged and sustained. borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2024/10/…

The second instalment of @ZNabolsy's interview with Carmen De Schryver is out! Carmen De Schryver and Zeyad El Nabolsy discuss how Hountondji's philosophy can shed light on contemporary debates about Enlightenment, Universality, and Postcolonialism. borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2024/4/2…

Sharad Chari @BerkeleyGeog, Patricia Hayes @phayesuwc from @chr_flagship and Michael E. Sawyer @FifthFloorPitt have responded to Ajay Skaria in this roundtable.

Reflecting on the historians' craft, Borderlines is publishing a series of essays as a meditation on presentism, and as a beginning of an ongoing conversation. @AjaySkaria opens this conversation up in our introductory post - borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2024/2/2…

This is a fantastic essay

Our editorial process was made smoother thanks to Charles Milne-Home!

Patricia Hayes adds to this conversation by reflecting on a photograph which "suggested something fascinating about periodization/s and the complexities of colonial expansionism in relation to the internal turmoil of a country or region becoming a nation" borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2024/2/2…

Michael E. Sawyer responds to Skaria by pointing out the problems with the implication that "an individual is somehow capable of extricating themselves from the totality of the context of their own moment in order to some type of unaffected supernumerary" borderlines-cssaame.org/posts/2024/2/2…