Frontier Ethnographies

Nafay Choudhury is a British Academy Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He has won several international prizes for his writings on legal pluralism and private governance, including the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article Prize and the Asian Law and Society Association Article Award.

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Preface



Introduction

Nafay Choudhury and Annika Schmeding

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Chapter 1. Strategies of Survival: Navigating Kabul’s Money Bazaars

Nafay Choudhury



Chapter 2. Obligation, Failure and the Promise of Migration

Annika Schmeding



Chapter 3. A Month in Coal Country

Abhilash Medhi and Abdul Ahad Mohammadi



Chapter 4. The Protest as Field Site: The Deh Mazang Suicide Attack and the Disruption of a Movement

Melissa Chiovenda



Chapter 5. All Women Are Equal, but ‘Begum Sahibas’ Are More Equal Than Others: Exploring Opinions of Upper Middle-Class Pakistani Women about Education

Saima Khan



Chapter 6. Women’s Worlds: Vignettes and Memories of Afghanistan

Farhana Rahman



Chapter 7. Familial Frontiers: Researching with Hindustani Musicians in Kabul

Michael Lindsey



Chapter 8. Drawing on the Frontier: Sketchbook-Cum-Journals and My Positionality as an Ethnographer of the Kalasha

Tom Crowley



Chapter 9. Kashmir as Fragments of My Diary

Omer Aijazi



Conclusion: Predicaments of the “AfPak” Frontier Ethnographers

M. Nazif Shahrani



Index