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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
- Anupamlata, Ramsheela, Reshma Ansari, Vibha Bajpayee, Shashibala, Shashi Vaish, Surbala, Richa Singh, and Richa Nagar. 2004. Sangtin Yatra: Saat Zindagiyon Mein Lipta Nari Vimarsh [A Journey of Sangtin: Feminist Thought Wrapped in Seven Lives] Sitapur: Sangtin.
- Sangtin Writers. 2006. Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism Through Seven Lives in India. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press and New Delhi: Zubaan.
ARTICLES
On globalization, 'North-South' politics and the question of difference:
- Nagar, Richa. 2004. Mapping feminisms and difference: The debate over Mut'a in Tanzania. In eds. Lynn Staeheli, Eleonore Koffman and Linda Peake, Mapping Gender, Making Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography. New York: Routledge, pp. 31-48.
- Sheppard, Eric and Richa Nagar. 2004. From East-West to North-South. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 36:4: 557-563.
- Nagar, Richa, Victoria Lawson, Linda McDowell and Susan Hanson. 2002. Locating Globalization: Feminist (re)readings of the subjects and spaces of globalization. Economic Geography 78:3:257-284.
On feminist methods, collaboration and transnational praxis:
- Nagar, Richa and Susan Geiger. 2007. Reflexivity, Positionality and Identity in Feminist Fieldwork: Beyond the Impasse? In eds. Trevor Barnes, Eric Sheppard, Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell, Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, London: Sage.
- Nagar, Richa. 2007. Languages of Collaboration. In eds. Karen Falconer Al Hindi and Pamela Moss, Feminisms in Geography: Space, Place, and Environment, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
- Benson, Koni and Richa Nagar. 2006. Collaboration as Resistance? Reconsidering Processes, Products, and Possibilities of Feminist Oral History and Ethnography, Gender, Place and Culture.
- Singh, Richa and Richa Nagar. 2006. In the Aftermath of Critique: The Journey after Sangtin Yatra. In eds. Saraswati Raju, M. Satish Kumar and Stuart Corbridge, Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies of India, London: Sage, pp. 298-319.
- Nagar, Richa. 2006. Local and Global. In eds. Stuart Aitken and Gill Valentine, Approaches to Human Geography, Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage, pp. 211-217.
- Nagar, Richa (in consultation with Farah Ali and the Sangatin Women's Collective). 2003. Collaboration Across Borders: Moving Beyond Positionality. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 24:3:356-372.
- Faust, David and Richa Nagar. 2003. Third World NGOs and US Academics: Dilemmas and Politics of Collaboration. Ethics, Place and Environment 6:1:73-78.
- Nagar, Richa. 2002. Footloose researchers, Traveling Theories and the Politics of Transnational Feminist Praxis. Gender, Place and Culture 9:2:179-186.
- Staeheli, Lynn and Richa Nagar. 2002. Feminists Talking Across Worlds. Gender, Place and Culture 9:2:167-172.
- Nagar, Richa. 1997. Exploring Methodological Borderlands Through Oral Narratives. In eds. John Paul Jones III, Heidi J. Nast, and Susan M. Roberts, Thresholds in Feminist Geography. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, pp.203-224.
On intersectionality, "empowerment", activism, and development/NGO politics:
- Nagar, Richa and Amanda L. Swarr. 2004. Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with "empowerment" in India and South Africa. In eds. Lise Nelson and Joni Seagar, A Companion to Feminist Geography. London: Blackwell, pp. 291-304.
- Swarr, Amanda L. and Richa Nagar. 2004. Dismantling Assumptions: Interrogating "lesbian" struggles for identity and survival in India and South Africa. SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29:2:491-516.
- Nagar, Richa and Saraswati Raju. 2003. Women, NGOs and the Contradictions of Empowerment and Disempowerment: A conversation. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 35:1:1-13.
- Nagar, Richa. 2002. Women's Theater and the Redefinitions of Public, Private and Politics in North India. ACME An International E-Journal for Critical Geographers 1:1:55-72.
- Faust, David and Richa Nagar. 2001. English Medium Education, Social Fracturing, and the Politics of Development in Postcolonial India. Economic and Political Weekly July 28-August 3:2878-2883.
- Nagar, Richa. 2000. Mujhe Jawab Do [Answer Me]: Feminist grassroots activism and social spaces in Chitrakoot (India). Gender, Place, and Culture 7:4:341-362.
On gender, place and communal politics among South Asian Communities in Tanzania:
- Nagar, Richa. 2000. Religion, Race and the Debate over Mut'a in Dar es Salaam. Feminist Studies 26:3:661-690.
- Nagar, Richa. 2000. "I'd Rather be Rude than Ruled": Gender, Place and Communal Politics among South Asian Communities in Dar es Salaam. Women's Studies International Forum 23:5:571-585.
- Nagar, Richa. 1998. Communal Discourses, Marriage, and the Politics of Gendered Social Boundaries among South Asian Immigrants in Tanzania. Gender, Place and Culture 5:2:117-139.
- Reprinted in eds. Katie Willis and Brenda Yeoh. 2000. Volume 10: Gender and Migration. THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF STUDIES ON MIGRATION, Series Editor: Robin Cohen, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.228-250.
- Nagar, Richa and Helga Leitner. 1998. Contesting Social Relations in Communal Places: Identity Politics Among Asians in Dar es Salaam. In eds. Ruth Fincher and Jane Jacobs, Cities of Difference. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 226-251.
- Nagar, Richa. 1997. The Making of Hindu Communal Organizations, Places and Identities in Postcolonial Dar es Salaam. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 15:707-730.
- Nagar, Richa. 1997. Communal Places and the Politics of Multiple Identities: The Case of Tanzanian Asians. Ecumene: A Journal of Cultural Geographies 4:1:3-26.
- Nagar, Richa. 1996. The South Asian Diaspora in Tanzania: A History Retold. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East: A Journal of Politics, Culture and Economy 16:2:62-80.
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