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Authored Books

Kalra, Virinder S. and Purewal, Navtej (2019) Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan: Gender and Caste Borders and Boundaries. London: Bloomsbury. (Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality)

Kalra, Surjit S., Purewal, Navtej and Tyson-Ward, S. (2016) Complete Punjabi. London: Hodder and Stoughton. (Teach Yourself)

Purewal, Navtej (2010) Son Preference: Sex Selection, Gender and Culture in South Asia. Oxford: Berg.

Purewal, Navtej (2000) Living on the Margins: Poverty, Social Access and Shelter in South Asia. Farnham: Ashgate.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Ung Loh, Jennifer and Purewal, Navtej, eds. (2021) Coloniality. New York: Sage. (Feminist Review, Vol.128, no.1)

Purewal, Navtej and Dingli, Sophia, eds. (2018) Gendering (In)security in Contemporary States of Exception. Abingdon: Taylor and Francis. (Third World Thematics; Vol. 3 No. 2)

Purewal, Navtej, Wilson, Kalpana, Ung Loh, Jennifer, Brah, Avtar and Gill, Aisha, eds. (2018) Gender, Violence and the Neoliberal State in India. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Feminist Review – Volume 119, Issue 1)

Book Chapters

Purewal, Navtej and Eklund, Lisa (2023) 'Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization.' In: Dawson, Myrna and Mobayed, Saide, (eds.), Routledge International Handbook on Femicide/Feminicide. London: Routledge.

Purewal, Navtej and Gill, Manpreet Kaur (2019) 'Flying High or Lying Low? The Moral Economy of Young Women in Higher Education in Punjab, India.' In: Sachdeva, Vivek, Pradhan, Queeny and Venugopalan, Anu, (eds.), Identities in South Asia: Conflicts and Assertions. London: Routledge.

Purewal, Navtej (2017) 'Pilgrimage: Sikhism.' In: Mandair, Arvind-pal, (ed.), Sikhism. Dordrecht: Springer Nature. (Encyclopedia of Indian Religions)

Purewal, Navtej and Kamran, Tahir (2015) 'Pakistan's Religious Others: Reflections on the Minority Discourse on Christians in Punjab.' In: Long, Roger D., Samad, Yunas, Singh, Gurharpal and Talbot, Ian, (eds.), State and Nation-building in Pakistan: Beyond Islam and Security. London: Routledge. (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

Kalra, Virinder S., Ibad, Umber and Purewal, Navtej (2013) 'Diasporic Shrines: Transnational Networks linking South Asia through Pilgrimage and Welfare Development.' In: Yong, Tan Tai and Rahman, Md Mizanur, (eds.), Diaspora Engagement and Development in South Asia. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Purewal, Navtej and Lallie, Harjinder S. (2013) 'Sikh Kirtan in the Diaspora: Identity, Innovation and Revivalism.' In: Hawley, Michael, (ed.), The Sikh Diaspora: Theory, Agency, and Experience. Leiden: Brill, pp. 381-403. (Numen Book Series)

Purewal, Navtej (2009) 'Gender, Seva and Social Institutions: A Case Study of the Bebe Nanaki Gurdwara and Charitable Trust, Birmingham, U.K.' In: Dusenbery, Verne and Tatla, Darshan Singh, (eds.), Sikh Diaspora Philanthropy in Punjab: Global Giving for Local Good. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Purewal, Navtej (2009) 'Postcolonial History: Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence.' In: Devine, Fiona and Heath, Sue, (eds.), Doing Social Science: Evidence and Methods in Empirical Research. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan.

Purewal, Navtej (2008) 'Gender-Caste Intersectionality in the Experiences of the Partition for the Urban Poor of Amritsar.' In: Butalia, Urvashi, (ed.), A Sense of the Past: Women Writing on the Partition of India. New Delhi: Zubaan Press.

Purewal, Navtej and Patel, Tulsi (2004) 'Origins and Contours of the Population Debate: Inequality, Population Politics, and NGOs.' In: Romero, Mary and Margolis, Eric, (eds.), The Blackwell Companion on Social Inequalities. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (Blackwell Companions)

Purewal, Navtej (2003) 'Re-producing South Asian Wom(b)en: Female Feticide and the Spectacle of Culture.' In: Puwar, N. and Raghuram, P., (eds.), South Asian Women in the Diaspora. New York, NY: New York University Press.

Purewal, Navtej (2002) 'Reproducing Inequality: Women, Population and Structural Adjustment.' In: Ortiz Rocha de Arago, Paolo and Glavanis, Pandeli, (eds.), Globalização e ajuste estrutural : impactos sócio-econômicos = Globalisation and Structural Adjustment: Social and Economic Impacts. João Pessoa, Brazil: Editora Universitaria, University of Paraiba.

Purewal, Navtej (2001) 'New Roots for Rights: Women's Voices amidst Population and Development Strategies.' In: Rowbotham, Sheila and Linkogle, Stephanie, (eds.), Women Resist Globalization: Movements for Livelihoods and Rights. London: Zed Books.

Kalra, Virinder S. and Purewal, Navtej (1999) 'The Strut of the Peacock: Partition, Travel and the Indo-Pak Border.' In: Hutnyk, John and Kaur, Raminder, (eds.), Travel-Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics. London: Zed Books.

Journal Article

Purewal, Navtej and Loh, Jennifer Ung (2021) 'Coloniality and Feminist Collusion: Breaking Free, Thinking Anew.' Feminist Review, 128 (1). pp. 1-12.

Dingli, Sophia and Purewal, Navtej (2018) 'Gendering (In)Security: Interrogating security logics within states of exception.' Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 3 (2). pp. 153-163.

Wilson, Kalpana, Ung Loh, Jennifer and Purewal, Navtej (2018) 'Introduction: Gender, Violence, and the Neoliberal State in India.' Feminist Review, 119 (1). pp. 1-6.

Purewal, Navtej (2018) 'Sex Selective Abortion, Neoliberal Patriarchy and Structural Violence in India.' Feminist Review, 119 (1). pp. 20-38.

Purewal, Navtej and Jasani, Rubina (2017) 'South Asian women elders and everyday lives of ‘care in the community’ in Britain: the neoliberal turn in social care and the myth of the family.' South Asian Diaspora, 9 (2). pp. 111-127.

Purewal, Navtej and Eklund, Lisa (2017) ''Gendercide,' Abortion Policy, and the Disciplining of Prenatal Sex-selection in Neoliberal Europe.' Global Public Health, 13 (6). pp. 724-741.

Eklund, Lisa and Purewal, Navtej (2017) 'The Bio-Politics of Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India.' Feminism and Psychology, 27 (1). pp. 34-55.

Purewal, Navtej and Kalra, Virinder S. (2016) 'Adaptation and Incorporation in Ritual Practices at the Golden Temple, Amritsar.' Journal of Ritual Studies, 30 (1). pp. 75-87.

Purewal, Navtej (2015) 'Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls’ Education: Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Colonialism, and the Beijing Platform for Action.' IDS Bulletin, 46 (4). pp. 47-53.

Purewal, Navtej and Hashmi, Naimatullah (2014) 'Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan.' British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36 (7). pp. 977-995.

Purewal, Navtej (2014) 'Disciplining the Sex Ratio:Exploring the Governmentality of Female Feticide in India.' Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 21 (5). pp. 1-15.

Purewal, Navtej and Singh, Pritam (2013) 'The Resurgence of Bhindranwale’s Image in Contemporary Punjab.' Contemporary South Asia, 21 (2). pp. 133-147.

Purewal, Navtej (2012) 'The Sound of Memory: Interview with Singer Mohinder K. Bhamra.' Feminist Review, 100.

Purewal, Navtej (2011) 'Sikh/Muslim Bhai-Bhai?: Towards a Social History of the Rabābī Tradition of Kirtan.' Sikh Formations, 7 (3). pp. 365-382.

Purewal, Navtej and Kalra, Virinder S. (2010) 'Women’s ‘Popular’ Practices as Critique: Vernacular Religion in Indian and Pakistani Punjab.' Women's Studies International Forum, 33 (4). pp. 383-389.

Purewal, Navtej (2006) 'Borderland Punjab.' Seminar: The Monthly Symposium (567).

Purewal, Navtej (2004) 'Sex Selection, ICTs and Feminist Internet-works.' Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, 8 (1/2). pp. 103-119.

Purewal, Navtej (2004) 'Paths to Housing Access for the Urban Poor in Amritsar.' Global Built Environment Review, 4 (2).

Purewal, Navtej (2003) 'The Indo-Pak Border: Displacements, Aggressions and Transgressions.' Contemporary South Asia, 12 (4). pp. 539-556.

Purewal, Navtej (1997) 'Displaced Communities: Some Impacts of Partition on Poor Communities.' International Journal of Punjab Studies, 4 (1).

Book Reviews

Purewal, Navtej (2019) 'The politics of gender and development in neoliberal times.' Politics and Gender, 15 (3). pp. 1-9.

Other

Purewal, Navtej (2014) 'The Two Iron Ladies of 1984: Remembering the Postcoloniality of Operation Bluestar 30 Years on.' Discover Society .

Purewal, Navtej (2014) 'Painting by Numbers: Locating Missing Girls in the Sex Ratio.' Discover Society .

Purewal, Navtej (2014) 'Beyond the Spectacle of Malala: A Critique of the Bandwagon of Girls’ Education.' Discover Society .