Nisha Mathew
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nisha Mathew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nisha |
| FAMILY NAME | Mathew |
| SIGNATURE | MATHEW N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5776-8705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sovereignty on the move
Strongmen and informal diplomats
This article investigates how populists at home and maverick dealmakers abroad, strongman leaders are increasingly side-lining official career diplomats by using informal diplomats drawn from transnational networks of diasporas, religious communities, and trade. Flagging this partnership as the key to understanding the changing twenty-first century international order, we follow how informal diplomats provide strongmen much-needed flexibility and…
Bhakt nation
This article investigates Modi’s rise to power as strongman leader of the world’s largest secular democracy. Deploying ‘bhakti’ or devotion as an analytical category, it brings an unusual perspective to contemporary Indian politics that looks at it from outside the electoral practices and institutions of the nation-state. Fundamental to understanding Modi’s political authority is Swaminarayan Sanstha, a powerful Hindu ascetic order tracing its or…
At the Crossroads of Empire and Nation-State
This article investigates gold smuggling in the twentieth-century western Indian Ocean. It illustrates how gold, condemned as a 'barbarous relic' by international monetary economists and central banks in the immediate post-war period, created an economy in the intermediate zone between a retreating empire and emerging nation-states in India and the Persian Gulf. Bombay and Dubai-connected by mercantile networks, trading dhows, migrants, and 'smug…
Dubai, the city as corporation
At the Crossroads of Empire and Nation-State
This article investigates gold smuggling in the twentieth-century western Indian Ocean. It illustrates how gold, condemned as a 'barbarous relic' by international monetary economists and central banks in the immediate post-war period, created an economy in the intermediate zone between a retreating empire and emerging nation-states in India and the Persian Gulf. Bombay and Dubai-connected by mercantile networks, trading dhows, migrants, and 'smug…
Sovereignty on the move
Dubai, the city as corporation
At the Crossroads of Empire and Nation-State
This article investigates gold smuggling in the twentieth-century western Indian Ocean. It illustrates how gold, condemned as a 'barbarous relic' by international monetary economists and central banks in the immediate post-war period, created an economy in the intermediate zone between a retreating empire and emerging nation-states in India and the Persian Gulf. Bombay and Dubai-connected by mercantile networks, trading dhows, migrants, and 'smug…
Strongmen and informal diplomats
This article investigates how populists at home and maverick dealmakers abroad, strongman leaders are increasingly side-lining official career diplomats by using informal diplomats drawn from transnational networks of diasporas, religious communities, and trade. Flagging this partnership as the key to understanding the changing twenty-first century international order, we follow how informal diplomats provide strongmen much-needed flexibility and…
Bhakt nation
This article investigates Modi’s rise to power as strongman leader of the world’s largest secular democracy. Deploying ‘bhakti’ or devotion as an analytical category, it brings an unusual perspective to contemporary Indian politics that looks at it from outside the electoral practices and institutions of the nation-state. Fundamental to understanding Modi’s political authority is Swaminarayan Sanstha, a powerful Hindu ascetic order tracing its or…
Sovereignty on the move
Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Capital (architecture (2 works) · Economics (2 works)