WRITINGS BY HARJANT GILL
ON MASCULINITY, MIGRATION & POPULAR CULTURE
2026. “Patriarchal Masculinity, Homosocial Intimacy, and Male Failure in Punjabi Cinema.” In Routledge Handbook of Punjab Studies (pp. 327-339). Routledge.
2025. “Gender, caste, and queer interruptions in Punjabi cinema.” In Routledge Handbook of South Asian Cinemas (pp. 119-136). Routledge.
2024 “India, Masculinity, Identity,” Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed Lee Baker. New York: Oxford University Press.
2022. "Transnational Hair (and Turban): Sikh Masculinity, Embodied Practices and Politics of Representation in an Era of Global Travel," Ethnography, 23 (2)
2020 "Harbhajan Maan: The Transnational Migrant Success Story of Punjabi Cinema," in Michael Lawrence ed., Indian Film Stars. BFI/Palgrave Macmillan.
2019 “Murderous Men: A Transnational Analysis of Domestic Violence, ‘Toxic’ Masculinity and Patriarchy in India and in the United States” in In Plainspeak - Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues (TARSHI), Oct 15
2017 “Placing the Transnational Urban Migrant,” in Alison Bain and Linda Peake eds. Urbanization in a Global Perspective: A Canadian Perspective. Oxford University Press: 245-259 (Co-written w/ Margaret Walton-Roberts).
2015 “इससे पोर्न (कामुक सामग्री) का क्या लेना देना? भारत में नारीवाद, यौनिकता, पोर्नोग्राफी और मर्दानगी [What’s Porn Got to Do With It]: On Feminism, Masculinity and Sexuality in India.” In Plainspeak TARSHI, Nov.
2012 “Masculinity, Mobility and Transformation in Punjabi Cinema: From Putt Jattan De[Sons of Jat Farmers] to Munde UK De[Boys of UK],” South Asian Popular Culture, 10 (2): 109-122
2010 “How Milind Soman Made Me Gay: Exploring Issues of Belonging and Citizenship Among Gay South Asian Men in Diaspora,” Anthropology Today: Contemporary Trends in Social & Cultural Anthropology, 7: 87-96
ON MULTIMODALITY & ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
2021 “Decolonizing Visual Anthropology: Locating Transnational, Diasporic, Queers-of-Color Voices in Ethnographic Cinema,” American Anthropologist, 123 (1)
2021 “The Uncertain Presents and the Multimodal Future,” American Anthropologist, 123 (1) (co-authored with S. Collins and M. Durington)
2020 “Ethnographic Documentary Production,” Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed John Jackson Jr. New York: Oxford University Press
2020 "How to Distribute Your Ethnographic Film," in The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film & Video (PDF)
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2019 “Degentrifying Documentary and Ethnographic Cinemas: Displacement of Community-Based Storytelling in San Francisco’s Mission District,” Pluralities,1 (1)
2019 “Multimodality and the Future of Anthropological Research and Scholarship” in Arts & International Affairs, 4 (1)
2017 “Multimodaility: An Invitation,” American Anthropologist, 119 (1): 142-146. (co-authored with S. Collins and M. Durington)
2017 “Film as Powerful Feminist Medium” in Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven, eds. Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities. Rowman & Littlefield: 138-139
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2017 “Censorship and Ethnographic Film: Confronting Homophobia, State Bureaucracies and Cultural Regulation in India,” Visual Anthropology Review, 33 (1): 62-73
2014 “Before Picking Up the Camera: My Process to Ethnographic Film,” Anthropology Now 6, 1: 72-80
OP EDS & ESSAYS
2016 “What the Sikh Turban Means to Masculinity in These Transnational Times,” in In Plainspeak – Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues (TARSHI), Sept 15
2016 “Kothi.” In Nancy Naples (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality, 1st edition.
2015 “Why India’s Daughter Does a Disservice to Both Men & Women,” The Huffington Post, Mar 12
2015 “Two Supreme Courts with Two Very Different Ideas of Gay Rights,” The Wire, July 2
2013 “Refusing to be Criminals (Again): Struggle for Equality Continues in India,” The Huffington Post, Dec 14
2012 “Unthreatening the Sikh Turban,” Anthropology News, Aug 29
