Writings

Books

The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling. (Stanford University Press, 2015)

Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, Politics, Environments. Edited with Sara Shneiderman. (Oxford University Press, 2018)

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Articles

Middleton, Townsend. 2020. “Provincialising Bengal: The View from Darjeeling.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 43 (1): 32-51.
Middleton, Townsend. 2020. “Chokepoints: Anthropologies of the Constricted Contemporary.” Ethnos.
Middleton, Townsend. 2020. “Connective Insecurities: Chokepoint Pragmatics at India’s Chicken Neck.” Ethnos.
Middleton, Townsend and Jason Cons. 2019. “Research Assistants and Ethnographic Fieldwork.” SAGE Research Methods Foundations.
Middleton, Townsend. In Press. “The Afterlives of a Killing: Assassination, Thanatos, and the Body Politic in South Asia.” Public Culture, 2018 30 (1): 85-112.
Middleton, Townsend and Jason Cons. 2014. “Coming to Terms: Reinserting Research Assistants into Ethnography’s Past and Present.” Introduction to Fieldwork(ers). Special Issue of Ethnography 15 (3): 279-290.
Middleton, Townsend and Eklavya Pradhan. 2014. “Dynamic Duos: On Partnership and the Possibilities of Postcolonial Ethnography.” in Fieldwork(ers). Special Issue of Ethnography 15 (3): 355-374.
Middleton, Townsend. 2013. “Anxious Belongings: Anxiety and the Politics of Belonging in Subnationalist Darjeeling.” American Anthropologist 115 (4): 608-621
Middleton, Townsend. 2013. “States of Difference: Refiguring Ethnicity and its ‘Crisis’ at India’s Borders.” Political Geography 35. (Special Issue: Geographies at the Margins: Interrogating Borders in South Asia): 14-24.
Middleton, Townsend. 2013. “Scheduling Tribes: A View from Inside India’s ‘Ethnographic State’.” FOCAAL: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 65. (Special Issue: Affirmative Action in South Asia): 13-22.
Middleton, Townsend. 2011.“Across the Interface of State Ethnography: Rethinking Ethnology and its Subjects in Multicultural India.” American Ethnologist 38 (2): 249-266.
Middleton, Townsend and Sara Shneiderman. 2008. “Reservation, Federalism, and the Politics of Recognition in Nepal.” Economic and Political Weekly 43, (19): 39-45.

Essays

Middleton, Townsend. In Press. “Frontier 2.0: The Recursive Lives and Death of Cinchona in Darjeeling, India” in Frontier Assemblages. Michael Eilenberg & Jason Cons, Eds. Antipode Book Series. Chapter. Chapter Manuscript 16 pages (estimated publication, 2018)
Shneiderman, Sara and Townsend Middleton. In Press. “Reconsidering Darjeeling: An Introduction” in Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, Politics, Environments. Townsend Middleton & Sara Shneiderman, Eds. New Delhi: Oxford University Books, India. Chapter Manuscript 30 pages. (estimated publication, April 2018)
Middleton, Townsend. In Press. “Unwritten Histories: Difference, Capital, and the Darjeeling Exception” in Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, Politics, Environments. Townsend Middleton & Sara Shneiderman, Eds. New Delhi: Oxford University Books, India. Chapter Manuscript 35 pages. (estimated publication, April 2018)
Middleton, Townsend. 2015. “Ethnography and Social Theory: A Dialectic to Hang Our Hats On.” In Theory Can Be More Than It Used To Be: Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition. Dominic Boyer, James Faubion, & George Marcus, Eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 197-203
Middleton, Townsend. 2011 “Ethno-logics: Paradigms of Modern Identity” in Modern Makeovers: A Handbook of Modernity in South Asia. Saurabh Dube, Ed. Oxford University Press. 200-213