Publications
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2023 (forthcoming)
“Disposable: Infrastructures of Exclusion in Dharamshala’s Smart City.” The Smartification of Everything. Univ. of Toronto Press.
2022
“Grammars of Difference: Language, Literature, and Racialization in the Linguistic Survey of India.” In Colonialism and Official Forms of Knowledge: The British in India, ed. Vinay Lal. New Delhi: Primus Books.
2021
“The Racial Language of Fatphobia.” Anthropology News, August 2, 2021.
2021
“‘No One is Poor in Himachal’: Cultivating Stateless Agency in an Indian Village Assembly.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Read here.
2021
Author Interview with Francis Cody and Constantine Nakassis, co-editors, Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia. Bernard Bate. 2021. Stanford: Stanford University Press. CaMP Anthropology Blog.
2020
Book Review of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, by Sabrina Strings. NYU Press, 2019. UCLA Center for the Study of Women Blog. Read here.
2020
Book Review of Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills, by Kirin Narayan. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research. 54:137-141. Read here.
2020
Carlan, Hannah. “Removing Confederate statue is a first step in healing Monroe." The Walton Tribune. Sept. 16.
2019
Purnima Mankekar and Hannah Carlan. “The Remediation of Nationalism: Viscerality, Virality, and Digital Affect.” In Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia, ed. Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. pp. 203-222. Read here.
2018
“‘In the Mouth of an Aborigine’: Language Ideologies and Logics of Racialization in the Linguistic Survey of India.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2018 (252): 97–123. Read here.
2016
“Gender Violence, Neoliberal Institutions, and Digital Activism in India.” Proceedings of Thinking Gender, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA. Read here.
2016
“Beyond ‘Culture’: Feminist Activism in India since 2012.” UCLA Center for the Study of Women Blog. Read here.
2016
“Sir George Abraham Grierson (January 7, 1851-March 9, 1941).” MANAS. Read here.
"Sir Herbert Hope Risley. (4 January 1851 – 30 September 1911)." MANAS. Read here.
2015
“‘Dented, Painted, and Proud’: Satire on Indian Social Media after the 2012 Delhi Gang Rape.” Texas Linguistic Forum: Proceedings of the 23rd Symposium about Language and Society 58: 11–22. Read here.