Sharad Chari

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 971 citations indexed

About

Sharad Chari is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Sharad Chari has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 971 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Anthropology and 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Sharad Chari's work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (8 papers), South African History and Culture (7 papers) and African history and culture studies (5 papers). Sharad Chari is often cited by papers focused on Anthropological Studies and Insights (8 papers), South African History and Culture (7 papers) and African history and culture studies (5 papers). Sharad Chari collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and United Kingdom. Sharad Chari's co-authors include Katherine Verdery, Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha, Vinay Gidwani, Henrike Donner, Stuart Corbridge, Wendy Wolford, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Brenda Baletti and Gabriela Valdivia and has published in prestigious journals such as World Development, Economic Geography and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

In The Last Decade

Sharad Chari

33 papers receiving 790 citations

Hit Papers

This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 100 200 300
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India
    1993 318 citations Sharad Chari et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sharad Chari South Africa 13 443 308 159 127 121 37 971
Maristella Svampa Argentina 15 651 1.5× 402 1.3× 139 0.9× 86 0.7× 119 1.0× 67 1.4k
Amita Baviskar India 17 614 1.4× 511 1.7× 217 1.4× 144 1.1× 201 1.7× 39 1.4k
Kristian Stokke Norway 17 791 1.8× 480 1.6× 118 0.7× 108 0.9× 144 1.2× 50 1.4k
Ian Blore United Kingdom 4 435 1.0× 292 0.9× 125 0.8× 83 0.7× 64 0.5× 7 877
Franz von Benda‐Beckmann Germany 21 691 1.6× 533 1.7× 161 1.0× 164 1.3× 74 0.6× 137 1.5k
Sharlene Mollett Canada 15 552 1.2× 217 0.7× 120 0.8× 162 1.3× 80 0.7× 27 1.1k
Ulrich Oslender United Kingdom 15 371 0.8× 250 0.8× 155 1.0× 82 0.6× 84 0.7× 44 783
Diana Ojeda Colombia 19 502 1.1× 267 0.9× 122 0.8× 207 1.6× 46 0.4× 37 1.2k
Kiran Asher United States 11 306 0.7× 194 0.6× 104 0.7× 143 1.1× 36 0.3× 34 729
David Delaney United States 16 832 1.9× 440 1.4× 99 0.6× 124 1.0× 256 2.1× 28 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Sharad Chari

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sharad Chari

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sharad Chari

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sharad Chari. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sharad Chari based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sharad Chari. Sharad Chari is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chari, Sharad. (2023). Subalternization of a Postplantation City. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 114(10). 2189–2193.
2.
Chari, Sharad. (2021). The ocean and the city: Spatial forgeries of racial capitalism. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 39(6). 1026–1042. 9 indexed citations
3.
Castree, Noel, Majed Akhter, Sharad Chari, James D. Sidaway, & Tariq Jazeel. (2020). Postcolonialism. The AAG Review of Books. 8(3). 183–191. 2 indexed citations
4.
Chari, Sharad. (2017). The Blues and the Damned: (Black) life-that-survives capital and biopolitics. Critical African Studies. 9(2). 152–173. 10 indexed citations
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Chari, Sharad. (2017). Dream zones: anticipating capitalism and development in India. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 44(5). 1090–1095. 1 indexed citations
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Chari, Sharad. (2015). Three Moments of Stuart Hall in South Africa: Postcolonial-Postsocialist Marxisms of the Future. Critical Sociology. 43(6). 831–845. 14 indexed citations
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Chari, Sharad. (2014). An “Indian commons” in Durban? limits to mutuality, or the city to come. Anthropology Southern Africa. 37(3-4). 149–159. 4 indexed citations
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Chari, Sharad, et al.. (2014). Introduction. Anthropology Southern Africa. 37(3-4). 145–148. 8 indexed citations
9.
Chari, Sharad. (2012). Settling the Self: Colonial Space, Colonial Identity and the South African Landscape. Social History. 37(1). 65–68. 1 indexed citations
10.
Chari, Sharad. (2009). Photographing dispossession, forgetting solidarity: waiting for social justice in Wentworth, South Africa. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 34(4). 521–540. 15 indexed citations
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Chari, Sharad & Stuart Corbridge. (2008). The development reader. Routledge eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Chari, Sharad & Katherine Verdery. (2008). Thinking between the Posts: Postcolonialism, Postsocialism, and Ethnography after the Cold War. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 51(1). 6–34. 241 indexed citations
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Chari, Sharad. (2008). Critical Geographies of Racial and Spatial Control. Geography Compass. 2(6). 1907–1921. 12 indexed citations
14.
Chari, Sharad. (2005). Son of Bush or Son of God: Politics and the Religious Subaltern in the United States, from Elsewhere. South Atlantic Quarterly. 105(1). 37–54. 2 indexed citations
15.
Chari, Sharad & Vinay Gidwani. (2005). Introduction. Ethnography. 6(3). 267–281. 26 indexed citations
16.
Chari, Sharad. (2004). Fraternal Capital. Stanford University Press eBooks. 121 indexed citations
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Chari, Sharad. (2004). Provincializing Capital: The Work of an Agrarian Past in South Indian Industry. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 46(4). 760–785. 18 indexed citations
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Gidwani, Vinay & Sharad Chari. (2004). Geographies of Work. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 22(4). 475–484. 12 indexed citations
19.
Chari, Sharad. (2003). The Vicissitudes of Marxism in “Postmodern” Times. Antipode. 35(1). 178–183. 1 indexed citations
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Chari, Sharad. (2003). Marxism, Sarcasm, Ethnography: Geographical Fieldnotes from South India. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 24(2). 169–183. 12 indexed citations

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