Malini Sur

493 total citations
21 papers, 198 citations indexed

About

Malini Sur is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Malini Sur has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 198 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Malini Sur's work include South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers). Malini Sur is often cited by papers focused on South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers). Malini Sur collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Netherlands and Indonesia. Malini Sur's co-authors include Barak Kalir, Emily Yates‐Doerr, Amalinda Savirani, Priya Satalkar, Nasima Selim, Annemarie Mol, M. N. Murthy, Eli Elinoff, Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Masja van Meeteren and has published in prestigious journals such as Cultural Anthropology, Comparative Studies in Society and History and Mobilities.

In The Last Decade

Malini Sur

17 papers receiving 169 citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Malini Sur 101 88 36 26 24 21 198
Amalinda Savirani 93 0.9× 84 1.0× 11 0.3× 18 0.7× 21 0.9× 28 197
Dolly Kikon 74 0.7× 132 1.5× 51 1.4× 16 0.6× 7 0.3× 23 225
Tulasi Srinivas 88 0.9× 31 0.4× 66 1.8× 27 1.0× 56 2.3× 18 215
Frances Pine 111 1.1× 45 0.5× 23 0.6× 13 0.5× 14 0.6× 24 202
Parvis Ghassem‐Fachandi 87 0.9× 58 0.7× 65 1.8× 15 0.6× 6 0.3× 12 146
Renée de la Torre 261 2.6× 30 0.3× 21 0.6× 46 1.8× 29 1.2× 75 341
Franck Billé 88 0.9× 79 0.9× 57 1.6× 34 1.3× 6 0.3× 28 196
Elizabeth Buettner 165 1.6× 61 0.7× 79 2.2× 10 0.4× 27 1.1× 18 273
E Dell'Agnese 95 0.9× 77 0.9× 13 0.4× 19 0.7× 4 0.2× 32 190
Claire Hancock 221 2.2× 110 1.3× 18 0.5× 45 1.7× 11 0.5× 38 308

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Fields of papers citing papers by Malini Sur

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Malini Sur

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sur, Malini. (2025). Cartographies of Clothing: On the Aesthetics and Practices of Property in Borderlands. PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 48(1).
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Murthy, M. N. & Malini Sur. (2022). Cycling as work: mobility and informality in Indian cities. Mobilities. 18(6). 855–871. 5 indexed citations
3.
Sur, Malini. (2021). Jungle Passports. University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks. 30 indexed citations
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Sur, Malini, et al.. (2020). Keeping cities in motion : an introduction to the labours of repair and maintenance in South Asia. Economic and political weekly. 31–33. 1 indexed citations
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Sur, Malini. (2020). Time at Its Margins: Cattle Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Border. Cultural Anthropology. 35(4). 17 indexed citations
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Meeteren, Masja van & Malini Sur. (2020). Territorial Ironies: Deservingness as a Struggle for Migrant Legitimacy in Belgium. International Journal of Politics Culture and Society. 33(4). 575–589. 3 indexed citations
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Sur, Malini. (2019). Danger and Difference: Teatime at the northeast India-Bangladesh border. Modern Asian Studies. 53(3). 846–873. 7 indexed citations
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Sur, Malini. (2017). Life Cycle. Transfers. 7(1). 130–136.
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Elinoff, Eli, Malini Sur, & Brenda S. A. Yeoh. (2017). Constructing Asia. City. 21(5). 580–586. 7 indexed citations
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Sur, Malini. (2017). The blue urban: colouring and constructing Kolkata. City. 21(5). 597–606. 4 indexed citations
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Sur, Malini. (2016). Battles for the Golden Grain: Paddy Soldiers and the Making of the Northeast India–East Pakistan Border, 1930–1970. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 58(3). 804–832. 8 indexed citations
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Sur, Malini. (2014). Indelible Lines: Revisiting Borders and Partitions in Modern South Asia. 6(1). 2 indexed citations
14.
Sur, Malini. (2012). Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities. Amsterdam University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Kalir, Barak & Malini Sur. (2012). Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities: Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 30 indexed citations
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Schendel, Willem van, Barak Kalir, & Malini Sur. (2012). Mobile Practices and Regimes of Permissiveness. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 11–25. 2 indexed citations
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Satalkar, Priya, et al.. (2011). Mixing methods, tasting fingers: Notes on an ethnographic experiment. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 1(1). 7 indexed citations
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Mol, Annemarie, Priya Satalkar, Amalinda Savirani, et al.. (2011). Mixing methods, tasting fingers. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 1(1). 221–243. 45 indexed citations
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Schendel, Willem van & Malini Sur. (2009). Jungle passports and metal fences: living on the border between Northeast India and Bangladesh.
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Sur, Malini. (2004). Women’s Right to Education—A Narrative on International Law. Indian Journal of Gender Studies. 11(3). 255–274.

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