South Asia on the Move

Benjamin Linder is an anthropologist and cultural geographer with interests in transnational mobilities, cultural transformation, and urban place-making in Nepal. He serves as the Coordinator for Public and Engaged Scholarship at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Bedi Tarini :

Tarini Bedi is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Program Director for Cultural Anthropology at the National Science Foundation (USA). Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of urban, political, and economic anthropology, environment and ecology, anthropology of infrastructure and mobilities, cultural geography, science and technology studies, and gender studies. She is the author of two published books, The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena: Political Matronage in Urbanizing India (SUNY Press, 2016) and Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India (University of Washington Press, 2022).