Sanam Roohi
Biographic Data
| ID | 188438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanam Roohi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanam |
| FAMILY NAME | Roohi |
| SIGNATURE | ROOHI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Erfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2483-841X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis: Transnational Insecurities and Geo‐Spatialized Resiliences Among South Asian Students in Finland
On the basis of ethnographic research among South Asian students in Runolahti (anonymized), this article explores their experiences during a time of compounded crises. It examines how COVID‐19 policies, the Russian war on Ukraine, the cost‐of‐living crisis and the termination of fee waivers and stipends at the local university created a polycrisis for current and incoming students. Already facing transnational forms of ‘cumulative precarity’, the…
Critical transitions in migration studies: Comparative Migration Studies’ 10thanniversary issue
In the past decade, dynamic geopolitical events have led to major migration movements worldwide.The launching of Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) in 2013 to promote comparative research in the field of migration studies (Saharso and Scholten, 2013) coincided with some of these major migration developments.The journal emerged at a time when the field was undergoing rapid transformation, incorporating newer methods, geographies and theories to s…
Social inequalities in international student mobility: Reviewing Conceptual Approaches
In recent years, research on international student mobility (ISM) has increased considerably. One recurring topic within this emerging interdisciplinary research field deals with the various social inequalities that exist in relation to accessing and participating in this form of mobility. However, while methodological and empirical aspects are becoming ever more refined, there is a paucity of discussion in relation to its theoretical concerns. A…
They sold our festival: Transnational activism and contested public memory making around Telangana ‘state festivals
In June 2014, after a prolonged sub-national movement, the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated, and the new state of Telangana was carved out of it. Soon after, the freshly constituted government of Telangana state accorded two regional festivals – Bathukamma and Bonalu – the status of ‘state festivals’, emphasising their importance in the newly formed state’s cultural repertoire. This article locates the antecedents of the government’s…
Against #CoronaJihaad: Online Somatic Nationalism and Offline Social Distancing in India during covid-19
This article examines the two waves of the covid -19 pandemic in India in 2020–2021. It disaggregates the different narratives constructed by the Hindu right-wing in online circles. It shows that by instrumentalizing the interactive and multimodal features of social media, the Hindu Right amplified the notion of Muslims as contaminants in the first wave of the breakout, accusing them of weakening the otherwise sacred, virus-resistant Indian natio…
Unbelonging as a Postcolonial Predicament: My Tryst With European Academia
As a first-generation university graduate with a PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam and working in German academia for more than three years, in this piece I reflect upon my academic trajectory so far. Looking back at my tenuous relationship with academia over the last decade and the struggles I have encountered as a minority woman in India and a person of colour in Europe, in this short piece, I further contemplate upon the postcolonial…
Nammakam, wasta and the cultivation of differential mobility capital between South India and the Gulf
This ethnographic study, which draws from critical mobility studies and puts it in a productive conversation with migration infrastructures literature, foregrounds the cultivation of and access to differential mobility capital by Rayalaseema inhabitants chain migrating to Kuwait. By fostering embodied and affective relations of trust with different set of actors throughout the migration trajectory, temporary migrants instrumentalise namakkam (tru…
No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities
This article focuses on the transnational giving practices of Kammas (a dominant caste in Coastal Andhra, South India) by examining their records, standing myths and evolving iterations around the practice. While Kammas date their giving practices to the 1700s, written records trace community giving to the late colonial period, where a few elites instituted and patronized caste associations. The practice was reconstituted in the late 1990s, with …
Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South
Conceptualising giving as a broad category encompassing philanthropy, charity, humanitarian aid and gifts, this Special Issue brings together researchers whose ethnographic and theoretical work examine different forms of transnational giving in the historical and contemporary Global South. In this Issue we contend that the Global South should not be seen as a passive recipient of these transnational welfare-oriented giving but as the site where t…
Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic
Anticipating Future Capital: Regional Caste Contestations, Speculation and Silent Dispossession in Andhra Pradesh
In 2014, the state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated by the Indian government, leaving the truncated state without a capital city. A period of political uncertainty before bifurcation and the announcement of the new capital city created possibilities for land speculation and for the acceleration of the commodification of real estate in different parts of the state. Concentrating on Guntur-Vijayawada in the Coastal Andhra region and Donakonda town …
Care as everyday peacebuilding
Analyses of everyday peace provide a critical response to existing peace practices. However, absent from these discussions is the feminist research that theorizes peace through everyday practices of care. We argue that contemporary debates on everyday peace should engage with this largely forgotten tradition. We explore the contributions of this research through case studies that span the north-south divide: from Northern Ireland to Aceh, and Kas…
In Diasporic Lands: Tibetan Refugees and Their Transformation Since the Exodus. By Sudeep Basu
Rohingya asylum seekers and their contested status in India have attracted considerable media attention in recent times. The Indian government’s decision to repatriate Rohingyas in blatant disregard of the principle of non-refoulement has shown how vulnerable they are in their quest to seek a safe haven in India. This is in stark contrast to another group of refugees that have lived in India for several decades and who have started to regard Indi…
Collective Discussion: Piecing-Up Feminist Peace Research1
Feminist peace research is an emerging field of social sciences that is transdisciplinary, intersectional, and normative—as well as transnational. Although it draws from disciplines such as peace and conflict research (in and outside of international relations [IR]) as well as feminist security studies, it also differs from them in terms of research scope and research design. Consequently, it not only provides insights on what can be termed “spec…
Efficient Donors, Meritorious Receivers: Professionalizing transnational philanthropy in coastal Andhra
High skilled' Kamma migrants from Coastal Andhra domiciled in the USA maintain strong ties with their villages and towns of origin. Since the 1990s, one key way in which they have sustained relations with their roots is through transnational philanthropy. Over the last two decades, migrant donors have diversified the modalities of their philanthropic engagements, increasingly institutionalizing them through US-based transnational associations. Wh…
Caste, kinship and the realisation of ‘American Dream’: High-skilled Telugu migrants in the U.S.A
Literature on the Indian diaspora domiciled in the U.S.A. largely portrays the group as educated, highly skilled migrants in pursuit of their American Dream, without critically engaging with the regionally particularised migration trajectories that predispose only certain groups to become skilled migrants from the global South to the North. Migration studies bracket skilled migrants as those who make rational choices and choose formal routes to m…
Care as everyday peacebuilding
Analyses of everyday peace provide a critical response to existing peace practices. However, absent from these discussions is the feminist research that theorizes peace through everyday practices of care. We argue that contemporary debates on everyday peace should engage with this largely forgotten tradition. We explore the contributions of this research through case studies that span the north-south divide: from Northern Ireland to Aceh, and Kas…
Caste, kinship and the realisation of ‘American Dream’: High-skilled Telugu migrants in the U.S.A
Literature on the Indian diaspora domiciled in the U.S.A. largely portrays the group as educated, highly skilled migrants in pursuit of their American Dream, without critically engaging with the regionally particularised migration trajectories that predispose only certain groups to become skilled migrants from the global South to the North. Migration studies bracket skilled migrants as those who make rational choices and choose formal routes to m…
Collective Discussion: Piecing-Up Feminist Peace Research1
Feminist peace research is an emerging field of social sciences that is transdisciplinary, intersectional, and normative—as well as transnational. Although it draws from disciplines such as peace and conflict research (in and outside of international relations [IR]) as well as feminist security studies, it also differs from them in terms of research scope and research design. Consequently, it not only provides insights on what can be termed “spec…
Anticipating Future Capital: Regional Caste Contestations, Speculation and Silent Dispossession in Andhra Pradesh
In 2014, the state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated by the Indian government, leaving the truncated state without a capital city. A period of political uncertainty before bifurcation and the announcement of the new capital city created possibilities for land speculation and for the acceleration of the commodification of real estate in different parts of the state. Concentrating on Guntur-Vijayawada in the Coastal Andhra region and Donakonda town …
Efficient Donors, Meritorious Receivers: Professionalizing transnational philanthropy in coastal Andhra
High skilled' Kamma migrants from Coastal Andhra domiciled in the USA maintain strong ties with their villages and towns of origin. Since the 1990s, one key way in which they have sustained relations with their roots is through transnational philanthropy. Over the last two decades, migrant donors have diversified the modalities of their philanthropic engagements, increasingly institutionalizing them through US-based transnational associations. Wh…
Nammakam, wasta and the cultivation of differential mobility capital between South India and the Gulf
This ethnographic study, which draws from critical mobility studies and puts it in a productive conversation with migration infrastructures literature, foregrounds the cultivation of and access to differential mobility capital by Rayalaseema inhabitants chain migrating to Kuwait. By fostering embodied and affective relations of trust with different set of actors throughout the migration trajectory, temporary migrants instrumentalise namakkam (tru…
Social inequalities in international student mobility: Reviewing Conceptual Approaches
In recent years, research on international student mobility (ISM) has increased considerably. One recurring topic within this emerging interdisciplinary research field deals with the various social inequalities that exist in relation to accessing and participating in this form of mobility. However, while methodological and empirical aspects are becoming ever more refined, there is a paucity of discussion in relation to its theoretical concerns. A…
They sold our festival: Transnational activism and contested public memory making around Telangana ‘state festivals
In June 2014, after a prolonged sub-national movement, the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated, and the new state of Telangana was carved out of it. Soon after, the freshly constituted government of Telangana state accorded two regional festivals – Bathukamma and Bonalu – the status of ‘state festivals’, emphasising their importance in the newly formed state’s cultural repertoire. This article locates the antecedents of the government’s…
Caste, kinship and the realisation of ‘American Dream’: High-skilled Telugu migrants in the U.S.A
Literature on the Indian diaspora domiciled in the U.S.A. largely portrays the group as educated, highly skilled migrants in pursuit of their American Dream, without critically engaging with the regionally particularised migration trajectories that predispose only certain groups to become skilled migrants from the global South to the North. Migration studies bracket skilled migrants as those who make rational choices and choose formal routes to m…
Efficient Donors, Meritorious Receivers: Professionalizing transnational philanthropy in coastal Andhra
High skilled' Kamma migrants from Coastal Andhra domiciled in the USA maintain strong ties with their villages and towns of origin. Since the 1990s, one key way in which they have sustained relations with their roots is through transnational philanthropy. Over the last two decades, migrant donors have diversified the modalities of their philanthropic engagements, increasingly institutionalizing them through US-based transnational associations. Wh…
Care as everyday peacebuilding
Analyses of everyday peace provide a critical response to existing peace practices. However, absent from these discussions is the feminist research that theorizes peace through everyday practices of care. We argue that contemporary debates on everyday peace should engage with this largely forgotten tradition. We explore the contributions of this research through case studies that span the north-south divide: from Northern Ireland to Aceh, and Kas…
In Diasporic Lands: Tibetan Refugees and Their Transformation Since the Exodus. By Sudeep Basu
Rohingya asylum seekers and their contested status in India have attracted considerable media attention in recent times. The Indian government’s decision to repatriate Rohingyas in blatant disregard of the principle of non-refoulement has shown how vulnerable they are in their quest to seek a safe haven in India. This is in stark contrast to another group of refugees that have lived in India for several decades and who have started to regard Indi…
Collective Discussion: Piecing-Up Feminist Peace Research1
Feminist peace research is an emerging field of social sciences that is transdisciplinary, intersectional, and normative—as well as transnational. Although it draws from disciplines such as peace and conflict research (in and outside of international relations [IR]) as well as feminist security studies, it also differs from them in terms of research scope and research design. Consequently, it not only provides insights on what can be termed “spec…
Anticipating Future Capital: Regional Caste Contestations, Speculation and Silent Dispossession in Andhra Pradesh
In 2014, the state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated by the Indian government, leaving the truncated state without a capital city. A period of political uncertainty before bifurcation and the announcement of the new capital city created possibilities for land speculation and for the acceleration of the commodification of real estate in different parts of the state. Concentrating on Guntur-Vijayawada in the Coastal Andhra region and Donakonda town …
Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic
Unbelonging as a Postcolonial Predicament: My Tryst With European Academia
As a first-generation university graduate with a PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam and working in German academia for more than three years, in this piece I reflect upon my academic trajectory so far. Looking back at my tenuous relationship with academia over the last decade and the struggles I have encountered as a minority woman in India and a person of colour in Europe, in this short piece, I further contemplate upon the postcolonial…
Nammakam, wasta and the cultivation of differential mobility capital between South India and the Gulf
This ethnographic study, which draws from critical mobility studies and puts it in a productive conversation with migration infrastructures literature, foregrounds the cultivation of and access to differential mobility capital by Rayalaseema inhabitants chain migrating to Kuwait. By fostering embodied and affective relations of trust with different set of actors throughout the migration trajectory, temporary migrants instrumentalise namakkam (tru…
No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities
This article focuses on the transnational giving practices of Kammas (a dominant caste in Coastal Andhra, South India) by examining their records, standing myths and evolving iterations around the practice. While Kammas date their giving practices to the 1700s, written records trace community giving to the late colonial period, where a few elites instituted and patronized caste associations. The practice was reconstituted in the late 1990s, with …
Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South
Conceptualising giving as a broad category encompassing philanthropy, charity, humanitarian aid and gifts, this Special Issue brings together researchers whose ethnographic and theoretical work examine different forms of transnational giving in the historical and contemporary Global South. In this Issue we contend that the Global South should not be seen as a passive recipient of these transnational welfare-oriented giving but as the site where t…
Against #CoronaJihaad: Online Somatic Nationalism and Offline Social Distancing in India during covid-19
This article examines the two waves of the covid -19 pandemic in India in 2020–2021. It disaggregates the different narratives constructed by the Hindu right-wing in online circles. It shows that by instrumentalizing the interactive and multimodal features of social media, the Hindu Right amplified the notion of Muslims as contaminants in the first wave of the breakout, accusing them of weakening the otherwise sacred, virus-resistant Indian natio…
Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis: Transnational Insecurities and Geo‐Spatialized Resiliences Among South Asian Students in Finland
On the basis of ethnographic research among South Asian students in Runolahti (anonymized), this article explores their experiences during a time of compounded crises. It examines how COVID‐19 policies, the Russian war on Ukraine, the cost‐of‐living crisis and the termination of fee waivers and stipends at the local university created a polycrisis for current and incoming students. Already facing transnational forms of ‘cumulative precarity’, the…
Critical transitions in migration studies: Comparative Migration Studies’ 10thanniversary issue
In the past decade, dynamic geopolitical events have led to major migration movements worldwide.The launching of Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) in 2013 to promote comparative research in the field of migration studies (Saharso and Scholten, 2013) coincided with some of these major migration developments.The journal emerged at a time when the field was undergoing rapid transformation, incorporating newer methods, geographies and theories to s…
Social inequalities in international student mobility: Reviewing Conceptual Approaches
In recent years, research on international student mobility (ISM) has increased considerably. One recurring topic within this emerging interdisciplinary research field deals with the various social inequalities that exist in relation to accessing and participating in this form of mobility. However, while methodological and empirical aspects are becoming ever more refined, there is a paucity of discussion in relation to its theoretical concerns. A…
They sold our festival: Transnational activism and contested public memory making around Telangana ‘state festivals
In June 2014, after a prolonged sub-national movement, the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated, and the new state of Telangana was carved out of it. Soon after, the freshly constituted government of Telangana state accorded two regional festivals – Bathukamma and Bonalu – the status of ‘state festivals’, emphasising their importance in the newly formed state’s cultural repertoire. This article locates the antecedents of the government’s…
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