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Authored Books

Simpson, Edward (2022) Highways to the End of the World: Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia. London: Hurst and Co..

Simpson, Edward (2013) The political biography of an earthquake: Aftermath and amnesia in Gujarat, India. London: Hurst and Co..

Simpson, Edward (2006) Muslim society and the western Indian Ocean: The seafarers of Kachchh. London: Routledge.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Simpson, Edward and Tilche, Alice, eds. (2016) The future of the rural world? India's villages 1950-2015. London: SOAS University of London.

Simpson, Edward, ed. (2011) Society and history of Gujarat since 1800: A select bibliography of the English and European language sources. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.

Simpson, Edward and Kapadia, Aparna, eds. (2010) The idea of Gujarat: History, ethnography and text. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.

Simpson, Edward and Kresse, Kai, eds. (2007) Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the western Indian Ocean. London: Hurst and Co..

Book Chapters

Rankin, Katharine and Simpson, Edward (2021) 'Roads and the politics of thought: Climate in India, democracy in Nepal.' In: Heslop, Luke and Murton, Galen, (eds.), Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 197-220. (New Mobilities in Asia)

Simpson, Edward (2021) 'Dharamsey: Assembler of Tradition.' In: Bjorkman, Lisa, (ed.), Bombay Brokers. Durham NC: Duke University Press, pp. 278-285.

Axelby, Richard and Rigaud, Suzanne (2019) 'The Hermit Village of Malana: An Update on Community Democracy and the Management of Change in the Himalayas.' In: Jodhka, Surinder and Simpson, Edward, (eds.), India's Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions. India: Oxford University Press, pp. 326-352.

Simpson, Edward and Serafini, Michele (2019) 'Earthquake Citizens: Disaster and Aftermath Politics in India and Nepal.' In: Holbraad, Martin, Kapferer, Bruce and Sauma, Julia F., (eds.), Ruptures: Anthropologies of Discontinuity in Times of Turmoil. London: UCL Press, pp. 193-217.

Simpson, Edward (2019) 'The Transnational Life and Political Philosophy of Shyamji Krishnavarma.' In: Keller, Sara, (ed.), Knowledge and the Indian Ocean: Intangible Networks of Western India and Beyond. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 245-258. (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)

Simpson, Edward and de Alwis, Malathi (2018) 'Memory Interventions: Gujarat and Sri Lanka.' In: Reddy, Sunita, (ed.), The Asia Tsunami and Post-Disaster Aid. Singapore: Springer Nature, pp. 253-269.

Simpson, Edward (2018) 'Memory and Earthquake Forgetfulness in India.' In: Lakhani, Vikas and de Smalen, Eveline, (eds.), Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies. Munich: Rachel Carson Center, pp. 85-88.

Heitmeyer, Carolyn and Simpson, Edward (2014) 'The culture of prohibition in Gujarat, India.' In: Fischer-Tine, Harald and Tschurenev, Jana, (eds.), A history of alcohol and drugs in modern South Asia: Intoxicating affairs. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 203-218. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Simpson, Edward (2012) 'The anthropology of a "Disaster Boom" economy in western India.' In: Luig, Ute, (ed.), Negotiating disasters: Politics, prepresentation, meaning. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 235-252.

Simpson, Edward (2012) 'The anthropology of aftermath.' In: Fardon, Richard, Harris, Olivia, Marchand, Trevor H.J., Nuttall, Mark, Shore, Cris, Strang, Veronica and Wilson, Richard A., (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology (vol. 2). London: Sage, pp. 329-338.

Simpson, Edward (2011) 'Kutch and the sea.' In: Varadarajan, Lokita, (ed.), Gujarat and the sea. Vadodara: Darshak Ithias Nidhi, pp. 537-548.

Simpson, Edward (2008) 'Sailors that do not sail: Hinduism, anthropology and parochialism in the western Indian Ocean.' In: Basu, Helene, (ed.), Journeys and dwellings: Indian Ocean themes in South Asia. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, pp. 90-120.

Simpson, Edward (2008) 'Why Bhatiyas are not "Banias" and why this matters: Economic success and religious worldview among a mercantile community of western India.' In: Lachaier, Pierre and Clémentin-Ojha, Catherine, (eds.), Divine richesses: religion et économie en monde marchand indien. Paris: École français d’Extrême-Orient, pp. 91-111.

Osella, Filippo and Osella, Caroline (2007) ''I am Gulf': the production of cosmopolitanism in Kozhikode, Kerala, India.' In: Simpson, Edward and Kresse, Kai, (eds.), Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean. London: Hurst.

Simpson, Edward and Kresse, Kai (2007) 'The history of Bhuj as told by its own historians.' In: Simpson, Edward, (ed.), Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the western Indian Ocean. London: Hurst, pp. 93-124.

Corbridge, Stuart and Simpson, Edward (2006) 'Militant cartographies and traumatic spaces: Ayodhya, Bhuj and the contested geographies of Hindutva.' In: Raju, Saraswati, Kumar, M. Satish and Corbridge, Stuart, (eds.), Colonial and post-colonial geographies of India. New Delhi: Sage, pp. 70-84.

Simpson, Edward (2006) 'The rituals of rehabilitation: Rebuilding an urban neighbourhood after the Gujarat earthquake of 2001.' In: De Neve, Geert and Donner, Henrike, (eds.), The meaning of the local: Politics of place in Urban India. London: Routledge, pp. 206-231.

Simpson, Edward (2004) ''Hindutva' as a rural planning paradigm in post-earthquake Gujarat.' In: Zavos, John, Wyatt, Andrew and Hewitt, Vernon, (eds.), The politics of cultural mobilization in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 136-165.

Journal Article

Simpson, Edward (2021) 'Obituary (I): F. G. Bailey (24 February 1924–8 July 2020).' Contributions to Indian Sociology, 55 (1). pp. 123-125.

Simpson, Edward (2020) 'Forgetfulness without memory: Reconstruction, Landscape and the Politics of Everyday in Post-Earthquake Gujarat, India.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 26 (4). pp. 786-804.

Simpson, Edward (2019) 'The Point of Death II.' Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology, July.

Tilche, Alice and Simpson, Edward (2018) 'Marriage and the crisis of peasant society in Gujarat, India.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 45 (7). pp. 1518-1538.

Simpson, Edward, Tilche, Alice, Sbriccoli, Tommaso, Jeffery, Patricia and Otten, Tina (2018) 'A Brief History of Incivility in Rural Postcolonial India: Caste, Religion, and Anthropology.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 60 (1). pp. 58-89.

Tilche, Alice and Simpson, Edward (2017) 'On trusting ethnography: Serendipity and the reflexive return to the fields of Gujarat.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 24 (4). pp. 690-708.

Simpson, Edward (2016) 'Prospecting in Rajasthan.' Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 7. pp. 27-31.

Otten, Tina and Simpson, Edward (2016) 'F.G. Bailey's Bisipara revisited.' Economic and Political Weekly, 51 (26-27). pp. 25-32.

Simpson, Edward (2016) 'Village restudies: Trials and tribulations.' Economic and Political Weekly, 51 (26-27). pp. 33-42.

Simpson, Edward (2016) 'Is anthropology legal? Earthquake, blitzkrieg, and ethical futures.' Focaal: European Journal of Social Anthropology, 74 (1). pp. 113-128.

Simpson, Edward and Serafini, Michele (2015) 'The neoliberal aftershock.' Himal (Southasian), 28 (2). pp. 12-25.

Sbriccoli, Tommaso and Simpson, Edward (2013) 'Enacting nationalist history: Buildings, processions and sound in the making of a village in Central India.' Quaderni Asiatici: rivista di cultura e studi sull'Asia, 104. pp. 13-44.

Simpson, Edward (2011) 'Blame Narratives and Religious Reason in the Aftermath of the 2001 Gujarat Earthquake.' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 34 (3). pp. 421-438.

Parry, Jonathan and Simpson, Edward (2010) 'David Pocock's Contributions and the legacy of Leavis.' Contributions to Indian Sociology, 44 (3). pp. 331-359.

Simpson, Edward (2009) 'The influence of Hindu nationalism on rural reconstruction after the 2001 Gujarat Earthquake (translated into Chinese by Dong Wenqi).' China Non Profit Review, 3. pp. 82-112.

Simpson, Edward and de Alwis, Malathi (2008) 'Remembering natural disaster: Politics and culture of memorials in Gujarat and Sri Lanka.' Anthropology Today, 24 (4). pp. 6-12.

Simpson, Edward (2007) 'State of play six years after Gujarat earthquake.' Economic and Political Weekly, XLII (11).

Simpson, Edward (2007) 'The changing perspectives on three Muslim men on the question of saint worship over a 10-year period in Gujarat, western India.' Modern Asian Studies, 42 (2/3). pp. 377-403.

Simpson, Edward (2006) 'Apprenticeship in western India.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 12 (1). pp. 151-171.

Simpson, Edward and Corbridge, Stuart (2006) 'The geography of things that may become memories: The 2001 earthquake in Kachchh-Gujarat and the politics of rehabilitation in the pre-memorial era.' Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96 (3). pp. 566-585.

Simpson, Edward (2006) 'The state of Gujarat and the men without souls.' Critique of Anthropology, 26 (3). pp. 331-348.

Simpson, Edward (2005) 'The 'Gujarat' earthquake and the political economy of nostalgia.' Contributions to Indian Sociology, 39 (2). pp. 219-249.

Simpson, Edward (2003) 'Migration and Islamic reform in a port town in western India.' Contributions to Indian Sociology, 37 (1/2). pp. 83-108.

Monographs and Working Papers

Simpson, Edward (2018) An anthropologist among the transport specialists: Social science insights on the political-economy barriers to the implementation of low-carbon transport in urban South Asia and Africa. London: Department for International Development.

Kresse, Kai and Simpson, Edward (2011) Between Africa and India: Thinking comparatively across the western. Berlin: ZMO Working Papers 5.

Simpson, Edward (2008) Was there discrimination in the distribution of resources after the earthquake in Gujarat? Imagination, epistemology, and the state in western India. London: London School of Economics and Political Science.

Simpson, Edward (2008) The rise and fall of collective public action in the aftermath of the Gujarat Earthquake of 2001. London: London School of Economics and Political Science.

Simpson, Edward (2008) The politics of loss, alienation and nostalgia after the ‘Gujarat’ Earthquake. Colombo: International Centre for Ethnic Studies.