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  1. Shredding

    Article • May 2025, punctum books

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  2. Smart Cities, Surveillance and Speed in Imphal, Manipur

    Article • South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  3. Ferals and gentrification in urban Australia: place, death and memory

    Article • Social & Cultural Geography, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  4. Colonizing Kashmir: State‐building under Indian Occupation. HafsaKanjwal. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2023, pp. 384. ISBN 978‐1‐503‐63603‐3 (pbk).

    Article • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, March 2024, Wiley

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  5. Pandemic surveillance and mobilities across Sydney, New South Wales

    Article • Geographical Research, September 2023, Wiley

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  6. Play space in plain sight: the disruptive alliances between street trees and skateboarders

    Article • International Journal of Play, August 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  7. Preparing surfaces for shredding: Skateboarding, repair, and care across scales

    Article • Area, June 2023, Wiley

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  8. Racial diversity in skateboarding: destabilising whiteness, decentring heartlands

    Article • Sport in Society, May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  9. Skateboarding in the empty city: a radical archive of alternative pandemic mobilities

    Article • Mobilities, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  10. Surface Tensions: Skate-Stoppers and the Surveillance Politics of Small Spaces

    Article • Surveillance & Society, September 2022, Queen's University Library

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  11. The draw of dysfunction: India’s urban infrastructure in skateboard video

    Article • Geographical Research, February 2022, Wiley

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  12. 7. Smart Enclaves in the Borderland. Digital Obligations in Northeast India

    Article • December 2021, De Gruyter

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  13. Artificial Intelligence from Colonial India: Race, Statistics, and Facial Recognition in the Global South

    Article • Science Technology & Human Values, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  14. Vibrant memory scapes: Encountering memorials on unstable ground

    Article • Emotion Space and Society, August 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  15. Smart Enclaves in the Borderland

    Article • May 2021, Amsterdam University Press

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  16. Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia

    Article • March 2021, De Gruyter

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  17. Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia

    Article • February 2021, Amsterdam University Press

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  18. The ludic lives of memoryscapes: Skateboarding post-Soviet peripheries

    Article • Memory Studies, February 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  19. Mobilizing Bodies and Body Parts, from Myanmar to Manipur: Medical connections through borderlands in ‘transition’

    Article • Modern Asian Studies, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  20. Skateboard Video

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  21. Chasing the Concrete Dragon: China’s Urban Landscapes in Skate Video

    Article • Space and Culture, May 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  22. Collaborative ethnographies: Reading space to build an affective inventory

    Article • Emotion Space and Society, May 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  23. Concreting the frontier: Modernity and its entanglements in Sikkim, India

    Article • Political Geography, January 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  24. The Backroads of AI: The Uneven Geographies of Artificial Intelligence and Development

    Article • Area, November 2019, Wiley

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  25. Smart cities, backward frontiers: digital urbanism in India's north-east

    Article • Contemporary South Asia, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  26. Embracing or Challenging the ‘Tribe’? Dilemmas in Reproducing Obligatory Pasts in Meghalaya

    Article • June 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  27. Afterword: Bridging Ruptures

    Article • May 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  28. Private Healthcare in Imphal, Manipur

    Article • December 2018, Wiley

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  29. Himalayan Boom Town: Rural-Urban Transformations in Namchi, Sikkim

    Article • Development and Change, October 2018, Wiley

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  30. Delinquent Borderlands: Disorder and Exception in the Eastern Himalaya

    Article • Journal of Borderlands Studies, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  31. Combatting Climate Change in the Pacific

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  32. Kakching Gardens: Experiments in Normalcy in Manipur

    Article • January 2018, Bloomsbury Academic

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  33. English-Language Documents and Old Trucks: Creating Infrastructure in Nagaland's Coal Mining Villages

    Article • South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  34. (En)countering counterfeits in Bangkok: the urban spatial interlegalities of intellectual property law, enforcement and tolerance

    Article • Geographical Journal, April 2017, Wiley

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  35. Tribal communities and coal in Northeast India: The politics of imposing and resisting mining bans

    Article • Energy Policy, December 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  36. Borderland City in New India

    Article • January 2016, Amsterdam University Press

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  37. Borderland City in New India

    Article • January 2016, OAPEN Foundation

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  38. Adjacent identities in Northeast India

    Article • Asian Ethnicity, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  39. Land, politics and power in Southeast Asia. Derek Hall, Phillip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li (2011) Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia. Singapore: National University of Singapore, 257 pp., $30.00, pbk, ISBN: 978-9971-69-541-5.

    Article • Asia Pacific Viewpoint, April 2015, Wiley

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  40. ‘Is India Racist?’: Murder, Migration and Mary Kom

    Article • South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  41. Debating Race in Contemporary India

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  42. ‘Enough Racism, Enough’: Vocal Politics, Gendered Silences

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  43. ‘Calling NE People Chinki Will Land You in Jail’: Fixing Racism

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  44. ‘Mahatma Gandhi’s Statue Beheaded in Ukhrul’: Beyond the Good Indian Citizen in Race Debates

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  45. ‘Bangalore: An Inconvenient Truth’: Hate Crime and the Exodus

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  46. Introduction: ‘Let’s Stop Pretending There’s No Racism in India

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  47. Borders, Territory, and Ethnicity

    Article • October 2014, NYU Press

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  48. Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay, The Rumor of Globalization: Desecrating the Global from Vernacular Margins

    Article • South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  49. Ethnicity and place in a ‘disturbed city’: ways of belonging in Imphal, Manipur

    Article • Asian Ethnicity, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  50. Northeast Migrants in Delhi. Race, Refuge and Retail

    Article • South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Michiel Baas, Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  51. Taking Stock – What Is Known About Suicide in Sri Lanka

    Article • Crisis, March 2014, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  52. The India–Bangladesh Border Fence: Narratives and Political Possibilities

    Article • Journal of Borderlands Studies, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  53. Policymaking 'under the radar': a case study of pesticide regulation to prevent intentional poisoning in Sri Lanka

    Article • Health Policy and Planning, December 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  54. Spatial dysfunction in post-tsunami Baan Lion: Taking the Moken beyond vulnerability and tradition

    Article • Geoforum, August 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  55. Karlsson, Bengt G. Unruly hills: a political ecology of India's Northeast. xiv, 315 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. £55.00 (cloth)

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, May 2013, Wiley

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  56. Being a tribal man from the North-East: migration, morality, and masculinity

    Article • South Asian History and Culture, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  57. Natural Potency and Political Power: Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos

    Article • Asian Studies Review, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  58. Flexible, Exotic, Unorganized: ‘Frontier’ Women in Indian Cities

    Article • January 2013, Nature

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  59. The Politics of Postcolonialism: Empire, Nation and Resistance

    Article • Asian Studies Review, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  60. Beyond the ‘Exclusionary City’: North-east Migrants in Neo-liberal Delhi

    Article • Urban Studies, November 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  61. Violence Against Women in the Militarized Indian Frontier

    Article • Violence Against Women, March 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  62. Tribals, migrants and insurgents: security and insecurity along the India–Bangladesh border

    Article • Global Change Peace & Security, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  63. Cosmopolitan Tribals: Frontier Migrants In Delhi

    Article • South Asia Research, February 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  64. Northeast Migrants in Delhi : Race, Refuge and Retail

    Article • January 2012, OAPEN Foundation

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  65. Leaving the Militarized Frontier: Migration and Tribal Masculinity in Delhi

    Article • Men and Masculinities, December 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  66. Insecurity Within and Outside the State: The Regional and Local Dynamics of Environmental Insecurity in the Mekong

    Article • November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  67. Book Reviews

    Article • Asian Studies Review, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  68. Beyond Counter-Insurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India. Edited by Sanjib Baruah. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. viii, 383 pp. $55.95 (cloth).

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, August 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  69. The dilemmas of pro-development actors: viewing state–ethnic minority relations and intra-ethnic dynamics through contentious development projects

    Article • Asian Ethnicity, February 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  70. Vision 2020 or re-vision 1958: the contradictory politics of counter-insurgency in India's regional engagement

    Article • Contemporary South Asia, August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  71. Fifty-year disturbance: the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and exceptionalism in a South Asian periphery

    Article • Contemporary South Asia, August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  72. Religious actors, civil society and the development agenda: The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion

    Article • Journal of International Development, December 2008, Wiley

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  73. Between National Security and Ethno-nationalism: The Regional Politics of Development in Northeast India

    Article • Journal of South Asian Development, October 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  74. The Constraints on Civil Society beyond the State: Gender-based Insecurity in Meghalaya, India

    Article • VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, November 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  75. Anti-development or identity crisis? Misreading civil society in Meghalaya, India

    Article • Asian Ethnicity, February 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  76. Civil society organisations and human security: transcending constricted space in Meghalaya

    Article • Contemporary South Asia, March 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  77. Flexible, Exotic, Unorganized

    Article • Nature

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  78. Children and Civil Society in South Asia: Subjects, Participants and Political Agents

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  79. Being a tribal man from the North-East: migration, morality, and masculinity

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

  80. Pirate places in Bangkok

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra