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

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.