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Animating caste: visceral geographies of pigs, caste, and violent nationalisms in Chennai city by Narayanan, Yamini

“…The paper introduces porcine bodies as landscapes upon which caste as wildness, primitive, or savage are inscribed and asserted in India, by the Hindu Right…”
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Animal Suffering in Global Development and Antipoverty Praxis: Enforced Animal Labor in the Peripheral Capitalism of Indian Brick Kilns by Narayanan, Yamini

“…Alleviation of human suffering is a key driver of antipoverty praxis. Poverty is a human experience of suffering from the violence of development, which often…”
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Jugaad and informality as drivers of India’s cow slaughter economy by Narayanan, Yamini

“…India’s status as the world’s leading milk producer is significantly sustained by cow slaughter, a criminal act in most Indian states. The paper argues that…”
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Street dogs at the intersection of colonialism and informality: ‘Subaltern animism’ as a posthuman critique of Indian cities by Narayanan, Yamini

“…This paper argues that colonial biopolitics and informality co-produce a ‘state of exception' for nonhuman animals in cities, based on the socio-political…”
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Special issues: Urban Geography's renewed commitment by Narayanan, Yamini

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Special issues: Urban Geography ’s renewed commitment by Narayanan, Yamini

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‘A pilgrimage of camels’: Dairy capitalism, nomadic pastoralism, and subnational Hindutva statism in Rajasthan by Narayanan, Yamini

“…Hindu nationalists and NGOs proffer camel dairying as an employment strategy for Rajasthan's nomadic pastoralists, akin to the commodification of bovine milk…”
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Cow Protection as ‘Casteised Speciesism’: Sacralisation, Commercialisation and Politicisation by Narayanan, Yamini

“…Offering a more-than-human sociological analysis of cow protectionism in India, this article argues that the discourse renders bovines vulnerable because it…”
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‘Posthuman cosmopolitanism’ for the Anthropocene in India: Urbanism and human-snake relations in the Kali Yuga by Narayanan, Yamini, Bindumadhav, Sumanth

“…India’s rapid urbanisation and biodiversity decline together have critical global implications in the Anthropocene. However, the complex socio-religious…”
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For multispecies liberatory futures: Three principles toward “progress” in anti-anthropocentric environmental geography by Narayanan, Yamini

“…This review draws on the work of critical animal geographers to elicit the notion of environmental anthropocentrism through critiques of progress as human…”
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Where are the Animals in Sustainable Development? Religion and the Case for Ethical Stewardship in Animal Husbandry by Narayanan, Yamini

“…The rights of livestock that are designated as food/farm animals have been a blindspot across development discourse and policies in spite of compelling moral…”
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Religion and Sustainable Development: Analysing the Connections by Narayanan, Yamini

“…ABSTRACT Religion's role in development has generally been viewed with suspicion, if not indifference, in scholarly and institutional concerns with development…”
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Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies Cultural Politics, Race, and the (Un)Making of the Settler Nation-State by Gillespie, Kathryn, Narayanan, Yamini

“…As the pendulum swings toward a sweeping global conservatism, conversations proliferate on the consequences of rampant nationalism, xenophobia, and…”
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Theme issue introduction: The species turn in Indian identity politics by Narayanan, Yamini, Srinivasan, Krithika

“…Animals are instrumentalised as symbols, objects, and commodities in the construction of diverse subaltern and elite human identities and identity politics in…”
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Animal ethics and Hinduism’s milking, mothering legends: analysing Krishna the butter thief and the Ocean of Milk by Narayanan, Yamini

“…The Hindu ethic of cow protectionism is legislatively interpreted in many Indian states through the criminalisation of cow slaughter, and beef consumption,…”
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Religion, Sustainable Development and Policy: Principles to Practice by Narayanan, Yamini

“…The nexus between religion and development is now well recognized in scholarship but the implications for development policies are relatively unexplored. The…”
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Hindu and Muslim women's everyday relations and agency: Gender and the Ganga-Jamni tehzib in Jaipur by Narayanan, Yamini

“…Multireligious syncretism in cities is chiefly upheld by the engagements of everyday life where enduring bonds are formed and sustained. This article studies…”
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Quo vadis, Delhi? Urban heritage and gender: towards a sustainable urban future by Narayanan, Yamini

“…Historic architectural heritage is important to sustainable urban planning policy, particularly in cities that have heritage sites and/or themselves have…”
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Sustainable consumption as a means to self-realization: a Hindu perspective on when enough is enough by Narayanan, Yamini

“…In this paper, I investigate the religious notion of self‐realization or self‐actualization in the context of sustainability, and argue that sustainability is…”
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Religion and Sustainable Development: Analysing the Connections: Critical Perspectives by NARAYANAN, Yamini

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