SOAS Research Online

Book Chapters

Caron, James (2017) 'Social Inequality and Ideological Circulation: Speaking for and against the Patriarchal State, 1930-1960.' In: Power Hierarchies and Hegemony in Afghanistan. London: I.B. Tauris. (International Library of Political Studies) (Forthcoming)

Caron, James (2013) 'Ambiguities of Orality and Literacy, Territory and Border Crossings: Public Activism and Pashto Literature in Afghanistan, 1930-2010.' In: Green, Nile and Arbabzadah, Nushin, (eds.), Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation. London: Hurst.

Caron, James (2012) 'Taliban, Real and Imagined.' In: Bashir, Shahzad and Crews, Robert D, (eds.), Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Journal Article

Caron, James (2024) 'Kārwān’s Talking Forest: Materiality, Poetic Imagination, and the Metaphysics of War Violence.' History and Anthropology. (Forthcoming)

Mustafa, Daanish, Khan, Muhammad Salman, De Nardi, Helmut, Caron, James, Naz, Arab, Shinwari, Mohsin and Gul, Aneela (2024) 'Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan.' Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7 (2). pp. 498-516.

Caron, James (2022) 'Why Decenter the "War on Terror" in Histories of the "War on Terror"?' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 54 (2). pp. 347-351.

Caron, James and Khan, Salman (2022) 'Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation.' Critical Asian Studies, 54 (2). pp. 149-170.

Caron, James (2019) 'Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge.' Geopolitics, 24 (2). pp. 444-461.

Caron, James (2016) 'Borderland Historiography in Pakistan.' South Asian History and Culture, 7 (4). pp. 327-345.

Caron, James (2016) 'Sufism and Liberation across the Indo-Afghan Border: 1880-1928.' South Asian History and Culture, 7 (2). pp. 135-154.

Caron, James and Dasgupta, Ananya (2016) 'Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia.' South Asian History and Culture, 7 (2). pp. 107-116.

Caron, James and Ahmad, Mahvish (2015) 'Activism, knowledge and publishing: some views from Pakistan and Afghanistan.' South Asian History and Culture, 7 (1). pp. 30-36.

Caron, James (2015) 'The Lives of Amir Hamza Shinwari: on personal histories against an imperial border.' Tanqeed: a magazine of politics and culture, 10. pp. 43-53.

Caron, James (2013) 'Elite Pasts and Subaltern Potentialities: Roundtable on the Future of Afghanistan Historiography.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45 (1). pp. 138-141.

Caron, James (2011) 'Reading the Power of Printed Orality in Afghanistan: Popular Pashto Literature as Historical Evidence and Public Intervention.' The Journal of Social History, 45 (1). pp. 172-194.

Caron, James (2007) 'Afghanistan Historiography and Pashtun Islam: Modernization Theory's Afterimage.' History Compass, 5 (1). pp. 314-329.

Translations

Sulamal, Abdul Wakil and Caron, James, trans. (2018) The Photograph Trade (Da 'Aksuno Bazar). Samovar, Strange Horizons .

Sulamal, Abdul Wakil and Caron, James, trans. (2017) 'Faces and Thoughts (Tsire aw Andixene)'. Samovar, Strange Horizons .

Other

Caron, James (2012) 'Sulamal's Work in Historical Context; Sulamal as Critical Historian: Preface.' In: The Rain and Other Short Stories. Kabul: Afghanistan Times Publication Center.