Writing

Books

Shankar, Arjun (Under Review) How Development Feels: Brown Saviors and the Technoracial Politics of India’s Help Economy.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Shankar, Arjun (2019) Participatory Listening, Youth Photography, and Curious Anthropological Inventions. American Anthropologist

Shankar, Arjun (2016) A (Gentle) Critique of the Photovoice: Case Study from Karnataka, India. Visual Anthropology Review, 32:2, 157–166

Shankar, Arjun (2016) The Curious Case of the Curiosity Center. Anthropology and Humanism, 41:2, 233–242

Shankar, Arjun (2014) Towards a Critical Visual Pedagogy: A response to the End of Poverty narrative. Visual Communication Journal, 13:3, 341-356

Shankar, Arjun (forthcoming) Decolonizing Visual Anthropology: Primitivism and Race in Ethnographic Film in Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology

Edited Volumes

Zurn, Perry and Arjun Shankar (forthcoming) Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge. University of Minnesota Press

Book Chapters

Shankar, Arjun (forthcoming) Generating Development: The Help Economy, The Right to Food, and Moral Sovereignty in Sovereignty Unhinged, eds. Deborah Thomas and Joe Masco. Duke University Press

Shankar, Arjun (forthcoming) The Campus is Sick: Capitalist Curiosity and Student Mental Health. Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge, eds. Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar. University of Minnesota Press

Shankar, Arjun (forthcoming) Youth, Curiosity, and Participatory Photography in Routledge Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video, ed. Phillip Vannini