Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. 1 Introduction : South Asia on the Move 7
4. 2 Gendering Distance : Marriage and Mobility in Bangladesh’s Riverine Borderlands 35
5. 3 At the Love Commandos : Narratives of Mobility Among Intercaste Couples in a Delhi Safe House 51
6. 4 Driving While Tamil : Policing as a Regime of Mobility in Postwar Jaffna, Sri Lanka 67
7. 5 Adventure Time : Adventure Tourism and the “Annihilation of Space by Time” in Nepal 93
8. 6 After Eat, Pray, Love: Tourism, Orientalism, and Cartographies of Salvation 111
9. 7 The Mobility of Regional Labor Hierarchies : Nepali Employment and Entrepreneurialism in the “South Asian” Gas Stations of North Texas 129
10. 8 Sometimes She Stands Like a Statue : Immobility in the Archives of Colonial Psychiatry 151
11. 9 Disability on the Move : Disabled Mobilities in Contemporary India 179
12. 10 Conclusion : Thinking Theory, Pedagogy, Method 199
13. Index 215