Townsend Middleton

512 total citations
15 papers, 216 citations indexed

About

Townsend Middleton is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Townsend Middleton has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 216 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 7 papers in Anthropology and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Townsend Middleton's work include South Asian Studies and Conflicts (10 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 papers) and Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 papers). Townsend Middleton is often cited by papers focused on South Asian Studies and Conflicts (10 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 papers) and Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 papers). Townsend Middleton collaborates with scholars based in United States. Townsend Middleton's co-authors include Jason Cons, Sara Shneiderman, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Ashley Carse and Gabriela Valdivia and has published in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, Political Geography and Cultural Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Townsend Middleton

12 papers receiving 194 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Townsend Middleton United States 8 122 121 58 15 14 15 216
Ralph Litzinger United States 7 133 1.1× 90 0.7× 26 0.4× 16 1.1× 9 0.6× 22 197
Catherine Allerton United Kingdom 11 198 1.6× 86 0.7× 67 1.2× 16 1.1× 38 2.7× 18 276
Lale Yalçın‐Heckmann Germany 8 164 1.3× 174 1.4× 41 0.7× 17 1.1× 6 0.4× 27 258
Franck Billé United Kingdom 8 88 0.7× 79 0.7× 57 1.0× 14 0.9× 34 2.4× 28 196
Carole Nagengast 6 138 1.1× 92 0.8× 70 1.2× 17 1.1× 4 0.3× 8 225
Terje Østebø United States 9 164 1.3× 140 1.2× 54 0.9× 5 0.3× 3 0.2× 23 218
Till Mostowlansky Switzerland 9 109 0.9× 97 0.8× 64 1.1× 14 0.9× 18 1.3× 28 214
Alexander Horstmann Germany 9 245 2.0× 183 1.5× 41 0.7× 22 1.5× 11 0.8× 37 294
Priya Satia United States 8 132 1.1× 107 0.9× 31 0.5× 7 0.5× 18 1.3× 19 219
E Dell'Agnese Italy 6 95 0.8× 77 0.6× 13 0.2× 19 1.3× 19 1.4× 32 190

Countries citing papers authored by Townsend Middleton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Townsend Middleton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Townsend Middleton

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
1.
Middleton, Townsend. (2024). Quinine's Remains.
2.
Middleton, Townsend. (2023). Quinine’s Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter. OAPEN (The OAPEN Foundation).
3.
Middleton, Townsend. (2021). Becoming-After: The Lives and Politics of Quinine’s Remains. Cultural Anthropology. 36(2).
4.
Middleton, Townsend. (2020). The Demands of Recognition. Stanford University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
5.
Middleton, Townsend. (2020). Connective Insecurities: Chokepoint Pragmatics at India's Chicken Neck. Ethnos. 88(2). 204–225. 3 indexed citations
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Middleton, Townsend. (2020). Provincialising Bengal: The View from Darjeeling. South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies. 43(1). 32–51. 5 indexed citations
7.
Carse, Ashley, et al.. (2020). Chokepoints: Anthropologies of the Constricted Contemporary. Ethnos. 88(2). 193–203. 33 indexed citations
8.
Middleton, Townsend. (2017). The Afterlives of a Killing: Assassination, Thanatos, and the Body Politic in South Asia. Public Culture. 30(1). 85–112. 2 indexed citations
9.
Middleton, Townsend. (2015). The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling. 16 indexed citations
10.
Middleton, Townsend, et al.. (2014). Dynamic duos: On partnership and the possibilities of postcolonial ethnography. Ethnography. 15(3). 355–374. 18 indexed citations
11.
Middleton, Townsend & Jason Cons. (2014). Coming to terms: Reinserting research assistants into ethnography’s past and present. Ethnography. 15(3). 279–290. 54 indexed citations
12.
Middleton, Townsend. (2013). Scheduling tribes. Focaal. 2013(65). 13–22. 9 indexed citations
13.
Middleton, Townsend. (2013). States of difference: Refiguring ethnicity and its ‘crisis’ at India's borders. Political Geography. 35. 14–24. 15 indexed citations
14.
Middleton, Townsend. (2013). Anxious Belongings: Anxiety and the Politics of Belonging in Subnationalist Darjeeling. American Anthropologist. 115(4). 608–621. 41 indexed citations
15.
Middleton, Townsend & Sara Shneiderman. (2008). reservations, Federalism and the politics of recognition in Nepal. 16 indexed citations

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