Category: Popular writing and other publications

Quaiser, Neshat (2022), “Evolving Tradition. Unani Medicine in the Making: Practices and Representations in 21st-century India”, Book Review India, Vol. 46(1)

Prof. Neshat Quaiser, an associate researcher at CSH, wrote a book review “Evolving Tradition. Unani Medicine in the Making: Practices and Representations in 21st-century India“, by Kira Schmidt Stienderoth “, published in The Book...

Ithurbide C., Savara T. (2020) Legal Handbook for the Artist Community in India, UNESCO Digital Library, 32p.

The CSH’s affiliate researcher Christine Ithurbide, along with Tejshree Savara, did contribute to a UNESCO-supported book publication on India’s art policy. It is available online in open access in the e-book format:https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000374090.locale=en Abstract: “As...

Seghal, A. (2020). A wish list for casual workers amid heat wave conditions, Policy Circle, May 30.

A new piece from Anmol Sehgal, research assistant in the Economics & Development area, addressing contract workers condition with regard to the heat waves currently affecting India: https://www.policycircle.org/life/a-wish-list-for-casual-workers-amid-heat-wave-conditions/

Benkimoun S., Denis E., Telle O. (2020), “Mapping the lockdown effects in India: how geographers can contribute to tackle Covid-19 diffusion”, The Conversation.

Olivier Telle, head of the Territorial Dynamics research area at the CSH, and Samuel Benkimoun, also part of the aforementioned research team, co-wrote with Eric Denis (urban geographer at the CNRS), and contribution from...

Telle O. (2018), “Emerging infectious diseases in India: the scourge that could boost urban development”, The Conversation.

Abstract:  Human societies have seen a significant decrease in mortality from infectious diseases over the past century. However, we must still struggle with ongoing pathologies we once thought were under control (cholera, tuberculosis, plague,...