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Authored Books

Srivastava, Sanjay (2022) Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2015) Entangled urbanism: Slum, Gated community, and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2007) Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Class and Consumption in India. Abingdon: Routledge.

Birch, David, Schirato, Tony and Srivastava, Sanjay (2001) Asia: Cultural Politics in the Global Age. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Srivastava, Sanjay (1998) Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School. Abingdon: Routledge.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Srivastava, Sanjay and Kumaramkandath, Rajeev, eds. (2019) (Hi) Stories of Desire: Sexuality and Culture in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Srivastava, Sanjay, Arif, Yasmeen and Abraham, Janaki, eds. (2019) Critical Themes in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Sage.

Srivastava, Sanjay, ed. (2013) Sexuality Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford India studies in contemporary society)

Srivastava, Sanjay, ed. (2004) Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes. Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia. New Delhi: Sage. (Studies on Contemporary South Asia)

Book Chapters

Srivastava, Sanjay (2025) 'Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India.' In: Rau, Susanne and Rüpke, Jörg, (eds.), Handbook of Religion and Urbanity. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Forthcoming)

Srivastava, Sanjay (2024) 'Technotopias, Consumer Cultures, and the Gendered City.' In: Brosius, Christiane, de Kloet, Jeroen, Abu-Er-Rub, Laila and Butcher, Melissa, (eds.), Being Single in the City: Cultural Geographies of Gendered Urban Space in Asia. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, pp. 231-253.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2022) 'New Urbanism and the Remaking of Citizenship, Class and "Community".' In: Patel, Sujata, (ed.), Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 109-131.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2021) 'Spatial Politics: Sociality, "Transparency" and Ideas of Community in Delhi and Gurgaon.' In: Chakravorty, Sanjoy and Neelanjan, Sircar, (eds.), Colossus: The Anatomy of India’s National Capital Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 290-310. (South Asia in the Social Sciences)

Srivastava, Sanjay (2021) 'Voice, Gender and Space in the Time of the Five-Year Plans: The Idea of Lata Mangeshkar.' In: Dave, Ranjana, (ed.), Improvised Futures. Encountering the Body in Performance. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 163-182. (India Since the 90s)

Srivastava, Sanjay (2020) 'Transitions in India’s City-Making: New Urbanism and the Remaking of Citizenship, Class and Community.' In: Kim, Chanwahn and Kumar, Rajiv, (eds.), Great transition in India: critical explorations. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 41-69.

Srivastava, Sanjay and Kumaramkandath, Rajeev (2019) 'Introduction: Sexuality and Sexualities.' In: Kumaramkandath, Rajeev and Srivastava, Sanjay, (eds.), (Hi) Stories of Desire: Sexualities and Culture in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xi-xxx.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2019) 'Masculinity, Sexuality and Culture: Entangled Narratives.' In: Aneja, Anu, (ed.), Women’s and Gender Studies in India: Crossings. Abingdon: Routledge.

Srivastava, Sanjay, Abraham, Janaki and Arif, Yasmeen (2019) 'Introduction to Critical themes in Indian Sociology.' In: Critical Themes in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Sage.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2019) 'Negotiating Governance, Accommodating Informality.' In: Governing the Plural City. London: The British Academy, pp. 27-31.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2018) 'Masculinity Studies and Feminism: Othering the Self, Engaging Theory.' In: Chowdhury, Romit and Al Baset, Zaid, (eds.), Men and Feminism in India. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 35-49.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2018) 'New Urbanism, Post-nationalism and Consumer Culture in India.' In: Kravets, Olga, Maclaran, Pauline, Miles, Steven and Venkatesh, Alladi, (eds.), The SAGE handbook of Consumer Culture. New York: Sage, pp. 124-142.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2017) 'Divine Markets: Ethnographic Notes on Postnationalism and Moral Consumption in India.' In: Rudnyckyj, Daromir and Osella, Filippo, (eds.), Religion and the Morality of Market. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 94-115.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2017) 'Gated Spaces, Commodity Cultures and the Politics of Gender.' In: Bhatia, Manjeet, (ed.), Locating Gender in the New Middle-Class in India. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, pp. 129-148.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2015) 'Schooling, Culture and Modernity.' In: Thapan, Meenakshi, (ed.), Education and Society: Themes, Perspectives, Practices. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. (Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology)

Srivastava, Sanjay (2014) 'Shop Talk: Malls and their Publics.' In: Mathur, Nita, (ed.), Consumer Cultures, Modernity and Identity. New Delhi: Sage, pp. 45-70.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2014) 'Urban spaces, Post-nationalism and the Making of the Consumer-Citizen in India.' In: Chatterjee, Partha, Guha-Thakurta, Tapati and Kar, Bodhisattva, (eds.), New Cultural Histories of India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 409-436.

Journal Article

Srivastava, Sanjay (2022) 'Relation Flexibility: "Personality Development", Selfhood and the Limits of Theorising Neoliberalism in India.' American Ethnologist, 49 (4). pp. 1-13.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2020) 'Hindu Majoritarianism, Forms of Capital, and Urban Politics. The Making of a New Ordinary Citizen in India.' HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 10 (3). pp. 742-749.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2018) 'On the Merits of Recognising the Near-impossibility of Dialogue.' Dialogues in Human Geography, 8 (2). pp. 133-137.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2016) 'Natives, Subjects, Consumers: Postcolonial Masculinities: Masculinities and Change: Notes on Continuities and Transformations in Indian Masculine Cultures.' Masculinities and Social Change, 5 (1). p. 1905.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2015) 'Masculinity Studies and Feminism: Othering the Self.' Economic and Political Weekly, 50 (20). pp. 33-36.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2015) 'Modi-masculinity: Media, Manhood and ‘Traditions’ in a Time of Consumerism.' Television and New Media, 16 (4). pp. 331-348.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2013) 'Thrilling Affects: Sexuality, Masculinity, the City and “Indian Traditions” in the Contemporary Hindi “Detective” Novel.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 15 (4). pp. 567-585.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2012) 'Duplicity, Intimacy, Community: Of Identity Cards, Permits and Other Fake Documents in Delhi’.' Thesis Eleven. Critical Theory and Historical Sociology, 113 (1). pp. 78-93.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2011) 'A Hijra, a Female Pradhan and a Real Estate Dealer: Between the Market, the State and 'Community'.' Economic and Political Weekly, 46 (51). pp. 44-52.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2010) 'Fragmentary Pleasures: Masculinity, Urban Spaces and Commodity Politics in Delhi.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16 (4). pp. 835-852.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2010) '"Revolution Forever": Consumerism and Object Lessons for the Urban Poor.' Contributions to Indian Sociology, 44 (1). pp. 103-28.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2009) 'Urban Spaces, Disney-Divinity and Moral middle classes in Delhi.' Economic and Political Weekly, 44 (26). pp. 338-345.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2005) 'Ghummakkads’, a Woman’s Place, and the LTCwalas: Towards a Critical History of ‘Home’, ‘Belonging’ and ‘Attachment.' Contributions to Indian Sociology, 39 (3). pp. 375-405.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2004) 'Voice, Gender and Space in the Time of the Five-Year Plans. The Idea of Lata Mangeshkar.' Economic and Political Weekly, 39 (20). pp. 2019-2028.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2001) 'Introduction: Semen, history, desire, and theory.' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 24 (1). pp. 1-24.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2001) 'Non-Gandhian Sexuality, Commodity Cultures and a "Happy Married Life": The Cultures of Masculinity and Heterosexuality in India.' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 24 (1). pp. 225-249.

Srivastava, Sanjay (2000) 'Imagining a Social Landscape: Doon School Chronicles.' Visual Anthropology Review, 16 (1). pp. 95-98.

Srivastava, Sanjay (1998) 'Post-Coloniality, National Identity, Globalisation and the Simulacra of the Real.' Social Semiotics, 8 (2/3). pp. 255-281.

Srivastava, Sanjay (1996) 'Editor's Introduction: Special Issue: 'The National Artifice'.' The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 7 (2). pp. 91-103.

Srivastava, Sanjay (1996) 'The Garden of Rational Delights: The Nation as Experiment, Science, as Masculinity.' Social Analysis, 39. pp. 119-148.

Srivastava, Sanjay (1996) 'Modernity and Post-Coloniality: The Metropolis as Metaphor.' Economic and Political Weekly, 31 (7). pp. 403-412.

Srivastava, Sanjay (1996) 'Post-Coloniality, National Identity, Globalisation and the Simulacra of the Real.' The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 7 (2). pp. 166-191.

Srivastava, Sanjay (1995) 'Instituting Malaysia: Review article of Kahn, J.S. and Loh Kok Wah, F. (eds.) 1992. Fragmented Vision: Culture and Politics in Contemporary Malaysia.' Oceania, 66 (1). pp. 62-69.

Srivastava, Sanjay (1993) 'The Management of Water: Modernity, Technocracy and the Citizen at the Doon School.' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 26 (2). pp. 57-88.

Srivastava, Sanjay (1993) 'The Order of Men: The Nation and the Metropolitan Imaginary at an Indian Public School.' The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 4 (3). pp. 163-183.

Audios

Srivastava, Sanjay (2023) Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond. Now and Men (Durham University). [Audio]