Writing

Below, you’ll find my writing organized by publication type and year. For questions on any specific publication, feel free to write to me, and I will respond as soon as possible.

Academic Work

2024

Azad, A.K., and Essink, D.R. (2024). “An Introduction to Global Health.” In Global Health and Human Rights, 1st Edition, 27–44. London: Routledge. 

Nadkarni, D, and Azad, A.K. ( In Print 2024). Borderland poetics against new colonialisms: Assam, Kashmir, and Central India. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Springer International Publishing. 

Tanjeem, N., Dutta, U., Hussain, K. S., & Azad, A. K. (2024). “A march is beginning, a march for freedom”: Miya poetry as decolonial praxis toward justice and liberation. In Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology (pp. 355-377). Springer Nature Switzerland. 

Bhuyan, R., Sarma, M., Azad, A.K. and Bordoloi, A. (2024) ‘Bordering through legal non-existence: the production of de facto statelessness among women and children through the National Registry of Citizens in Assam, India’, Int. J. Migration and Border Studies

2023

Azad, A.K., & Rahimli, A. (2023). Consensus Building Method as a participatory tool of health decision making to counteract medical desertification in Europe. International Journal of Integrated Care 23(S1):622 DOI: doi.org/10.5335/ijic.ICIC23622 (Conference Proceeding) 

Azad, A.K., & Chavez, Y. (2023, November). Intersections of vulnerability, resilience, and mental health impacts of climate change on women living in River Islands in Assam, India. In TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH (Vol. 28, pp. 263-264). WILLEY (Conference Proceeding) 

Azad, A.K., Manzer, A., & Zuiderent-Jerak, T. (2023, November). Digital reconnections: Reuniting homeless people with their families in India. In TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH (Vol. 28, pp. 278-279).  WILLEY (Conference Proceeding)  

Azad, A.K. (2023). Digitising Citizenship and Measuring Genealogies: The NRC and Algorithms in Assam. In Conversations on Data Justice in India: Combatting Algorithmic Exclusions and Building Fairer Frameworks Publisher: Centre for Development Policy and Practices

Dutta, U., Azad, A. K., & Tanjeem, N. (2023). Examining Citizenship Regimes in Assam Through a Structural and Cultural Violence Lens. American Journal of Community Psychology.

2022

Azad, A.K., Nadkarni, D. & Bunder-Aelen, J.G.F. (2022). Beyond Resistance, Beyond Assimilation: Reimagining Citizenship through Poetry. Journal of Human Rights Practice 

 

Atallah et al. (2022). Transnational Research Collectives as “Constellations of Co-Resistance:” Counterstorytelling, Interweaving Struggles, and Decolonial Love. Qualitative Inquiry 

Azad, A.K. and Chakraborty, G. (2022).  Miya Poetry: Poetics, Politics and Polemics. In Citizenship in Contemporary Times Publisher: Routledge

2021

Dutta, U., Azad, A. K., Mullah, M., Hussain, K. S., & Parveez, W. (2021). From Rhetorical “Inclusion” Towards Decolonial Futures: Building Communities of Resistance in the Global South. American Journal of Community Psychology


Dutta, U., Azad, A. K., & Hussain, S. M. (2021). Counter Storytelling as Epistemic Justice: Decolonial Community-based Praxis from the Global South. American Journal of Community Psychology


​​Chatterji, A. P., Desai, M., Mander, H., & Azad, A. K. (2021). BREAKING WORLDS: Religion, Law and Citizenship in Majoritarian India. University of California, Berkeley (Peer reviewed monograph). 

2020

Jagnoor, J., Bhaumik, S., Christou, A., Azad, A. K., & Ivers, R. (2020). Weaved into the fabric of life: A qualitative exploration on impact of water-related disasters in the Char Community of Assam, India. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Azad, A. K., Bhat, M., & Mander, H. (2020). Citizenship and the Mass Production of Statelessness in Assam. India Exclusion Report

2019

Azad, A. K. (2019). Char Residents in Assam. India Exclusion Report

Selected Popular Writings

​Azad, A. K., & Parveez, W. (2021, February 20). Graveyards of the Living Dead: Former Inmates on Life in Assam’s Notorious Detention Centres. Retrieved from The Wire: https://thewire.in/rights/assam-goalpara-detention-centre-nrc-citizenship  

Azad, A. K. (2020, February 14). A House for Mr Azad: In NRC and CAA-racked Assam, a father tries to explain to his son why they had to leave their rented home and friends. Retrieved from Live Mint: https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/a-house-for-mr-azad-11581669157355.html  

Azad, A. K. (2020, January 12). The Tragic Demise of a ‘Declared Foreigner’ at Goalpara Detention Centre. Retrieved from The Wire: https://thewire.in/rights/goalpara-detention-death-assam  

Mander, H. & Azad, A. K. (2019, January 2). People no country wants: On test is the mettle of India’s democracy. Retrieved from Indian Express: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/nrc-assam-citizenship-indian-bangladeshi-infiltration-5519118/  

Azad, A. K. (2018, August 15). Assam NRC: A History of Violence and Persecution. Retrieved from The Wire: https://thewire.in/rights/assam-nrc-a-history-of-violence-and-persecution 

Azad, A. K. (2018, July 20). The other side of Assam: The divide between ‘us’ and ‘them’  Retrieved from The Hindu BusinessLine: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/cover/the-other-side-of-assam/article24469972.ece  

Azad, A. K. (2018, May 3). Four years on, the trauma of one of the deadliest massacres in Assam. Retrieved from The Wire: https://thewire.in/communalism/why-khagrabaris-ramena-khatun-is-still-scared-of-living-at-home  

Azad, A. K. (2019, May 2). How the BJP weaponised evictions as a tool against Assam’s Bengali Muslim residents. Retrieved from Caravan Magazine: https://caravanmagazine.in/religion/bjp-weaponised-evictions-tool-assam-muslim-residents  


Azad, A. K. (2019, March 25). In India’s Assam, Muslim families evicted weeks before elections. Retrieved from Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/25/in-indias-assam-muslim-families-evicted-weeks-before-elections  


​Azad, A. K. (2018, February 26). What Explains Mob Lynchings Becoming the New Normal in India: Why at this particular moment in history do members of one group consider members of another group as less than human? Retrieved from The Wire: https://thewire.in/caste/what-explains-mob-lynchings-becoming-the-new-normal-in-india  


​Azad, A. K. (2016, September 23). Dehumanising Muslims in Assam: Cast as the ‘other’, dubbed ‘Bangladeshi’ and incessantly victimized, the Bengal-origin Muslim is fair game, with the media actively whipping up hatred. Retrieved from The Hoot: http://asu.thehoot.org/media-watch/media-practice/dehumanising-muslims-in-assam-9661