Publications
Books
2016. Sensitive Space: Anxious Territory at the India Bangladesh Border. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Edited Volumes
2019. (With Michael Eilenberg). Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia. London: Wiley (Antipode Book Series).
On Climate and Environmental Politics
2021. "Ecologies of Capture in Bangladesh's Sundarbans: Predations on a Climate Frontier." American Ethnologist.
2021. "Thinking the Zone: Development, Climate, and Heterodystopia." In Chettri, Mona, and Michael Eilenberg (eds), Development Zones in Asian Borderlands. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press.
2020. "Seepage: That Which Oozes." In Voluminous State: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Material Imagination. Edited by Franck Billé. Duke University Press.
2020. "Delta Temporalities: Choked and Tangled Futures in the Sundarbans." Ethnos.
2020. (with Ashley Carse, Townsend Middleton, Jatin Dua, Gabriela Valdivia, and Elizabeth Cullen Dunn.) "Chokepoints: Anthropologies of the Constricted Contemporary." Ethnos.
2018. "Staging Climate Security: Resilience and Heterodystopia in the Bangladesh Borderlands." Cultural Anthropology.
2018. "The Times of Chokepoints." Limn 10: Chokepoints.
2018. "Chokepoints--A Preface." (with Ashley Carse and Townsend Middleton). Limn 10: Chokepoints.
2017. "Global Flooding". Anthropology Now.
2017. "Seepage." Cultural Anthropology. Theorizing the Contemporary: Speaking Volumes."
On Borders, Sovereignty, and Territory:
2014. "Impasse and Opportunity: Reframing Postcolonial Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border." South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ). 10.
2014. Dunn, E and J. Cons. “Aleatory Sovereignty and the Rule of Sensitive Space.” Antipode. Volume 46, No. 1. 92-102.
2013. “Narrating Boundaries: Framing and Contesting Suffering, Community, and Belonging Along the India-Bangladesh Border.” Part of a Special Issue on “Geographies at the Margins: Interrogating Borders in South Asia.” Political Geography. Volume 35. 37-46.
2013. Cons, J. and R. Sanyal. "Introduction: Geographies at the Margins." Political Geography. Volume 35. 5-13.
2013. “Histories of Belonging(s): Narrating Territory, Possession, and Dispossession at the India- Bangladesh Border.” In Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia. Edited by David Gellner. Duke University Press. (reprint with minor modifications of article in Modern Asian Studies)
2013 "A View from the India-Bangladesh Border." East Asia Forum. Volume 6, No. 1.
2012 “Histories of Belonging(s): Narrating Territory, Possession, and Dispossession at the India- Bangladesh Border.” Modern Asian Studies. 46:3. 527-558.
2007 “A Politics of Sensitivity: Ambiguity and Exceptionality Along the India-Bangladesh Border.” SARAI Reader 2007: Frontiers.
2007 “The Tin Bigha Corridor, 15 Years On.” Forum: A Monthly Magazine Published by the Daily Star. (October).
On Development and Agrarian Change:
2014. Paprocki, K. and J. Cons. "Life in the Shrimp Zone: Aqua- and Other Cultures in Bangladesh's Coastal Landscape." Journal of Peasant Studies.
2014. Paprocki, K. and J. Cons. "Brackish Waters and Salted Lands: The Social Cost of Shrimp in Bangladesh." FoodFirst Backgrounder. Volume 20, No. 3.
2010. Cons, J and K. Paprocki. “Contested Credit Landscapes: Microcredit, Self-Help, and Self-Determination in Rural Bangladesh.” Third World Quarterly. Volume 31, No. 4. 637-654.
2008. “The Limits of Microcredit: A Bangladeshi Case.” Food First Backgrounder, volume 14, number 4. (with Kasia Paprocki).
On Methods:
2015. "The Placial Imagination." Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. (Conclusion to a special symposium on "Understanding Places" edited by Brandn Green, Kristal Jones, and myself).
2014. “Field Dependencies: Mediation, Addiction, and Anxious Fieldwork at the India-Bangladesh Border.” Ethnography. Volume 15 (3). 375-393.
2014. Middleton, T. and J. Cons. “Coming to Terms: Reinserting Research Assistants into Ethnography’s Past and Present.” Ethnography. Volume 15 (3). 279-290.
2009 “Sensitive Topics.” In Overseas Research: A Practical Guide. C. Barrett and J. Cason. Routledge.
2005 Cons, J. “What’s the Good of Mercators? Cartography and the Political Ecology of Place.” Graduate Journal of Social Sciences. Volume 2, Issue 1. 7-36.
2016. Sensitive Space: Anxious Territory at the India Bangladesh Border. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Edited Volumes
2019. (With Michael Eilenberg). Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia. London: Wiley (Antipode Book Series).
On Climate and Environmental Politics
2021. "Ecologies of Capture in Bangladesh's Sundarbans: Predations on a Climate Frontier." American Ethnologist.
2021. "Thinking the Zone: Development, Climate, and Heterodystopia." In Chettri, Mona, and Michael Eilenberg (eds), Development Zones in Asian Borderlands. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press.
2020. "Seepage: That Which Oozes." In Voluminous State: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Material Imagination. Edited by Franck Billé. Duke University Press.
2020. "Delta Temporalities: Choked and Tangled Futures in the Sundarbans." Ethnos.
2020. (with Ashley Carse, Townsend Middleton, Jatin Dua, Gabriela Valdivia, and Elizabeth Cullen Dunn.) "Chokepoints: Anthropologies of the Constricted Contemporary." Ethnos.
2018. "Staging Climate Security: Resilience and Heterodystopia in the Bangladesh Borderlands." Cultural Anthropology.
2018. "The Times of Chokepoints." Limn 10: Chokepoints.
2018. "Chokepoints--A Preface." (with Ashley Carse and Townsend Middleton). Limn 10: Chokepoints.
2017. "Global Flooding". Anthropology Now.
2017. "Seepage." Cultural Anthropology. Theorizing the Contemporary: Speaking Volumes."
On Borders, Sovereignty, and Territory:
2014. "Impasse and Opportunity: Reframing Postcolonial Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border." South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ). 10.
2014. Dunn, E and J. Cons. “Aleatory Sovereignty and the Rule of Sensitive Space.” Antipode. Volume 46, No. 1. 92-102.
2013. “Narrating Boundaries: Framing and Contesting Suffering, Community, and Belonging Along the India-Bangladesh Border.” Part of a Special Issue on “Geographies at the Margins: Interrogating Borders in South Asia.” Political Geography. Volume 35. 37-46.
2013. Cons, J. and R. Sanyal. "Introduction: Geographies at the Margins." Political Geography. Volume 35. 5-13.
2013. “Histories of Belonging(s): Narrating Territory, Possession, and Dispossession at the India- Bangladesh Border.” In Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia. Edited by David Gellner. Duke University Press. (reprint with minor modifications of article in Modern Asian Studies)
2013 "A View from the India-Bangladesh Border." East Asia Forum. Volume 6, No. 1.
2012 “Histories of Belonging(s): Narrating Territory, Possession, and Dispossession at the India- Bangladesh Border.” Modern Asian Studies. 46:3. 527-558.
2007 “A Politics of Sensitivity: Ambiguity and Exceptionality Along the India-Bangladesh Border.” SARAI Reader 2007: Frontiers.
2007 “The Tin Bigha Corridor, 15 Years On.” Forum: A Monthly Magazine Published by the Daily Star. (October).
On Development and Agrarian Change:
2014. Paprocki, K. and J. Cons. "Life in the Shrimp Zone: Aqua- and Other Cultures in Bangladesh's Coastal Landscape." Journal of Peasant Studies.
2014. Paprocki, K. and J. Cons. "Brackish Waters and Salted Lands: The Social Cost of Shrimp in Bangladesh." FoodFirst Backgrounder. Volume 20, No. 3.
2010. Cons, J and K. Paprocki. “Contested Credit Landscapes: Microcredit, Self-Help, and Self-Determination in Rural Bangladesh.” Third World Quarterly. Volume 31, No. 4. 637-654.
2008. “The Limits of Microcredit: A Bangladeshi Case.” Food First Backgrounder, volume 14, number 4. (with Kasia Paprocki).
On Methods:
2015. "The Placial Imagination." Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. (Conclusion to a special symposium on "Understanding Places" edited by Brandn Green, Kristal Jones, and myself).
2014. “Field Dependencies: Mediation, Addiction, and Anxious Fieldwork at the India-Bangladesh Border.” Ethnography. Volume 15 (3). 375-393.
2014. Middleton, T. and J. Cons. “Coming to Terms: Reinserting Research Assistants into Ethnography’s Past and Present.” Ethnography. Volume 15 (3). 279-290.
2009 “Sensitive Topics.” In Overseas Research: A Practical Guide. C. Barrett and J. Cason. Routledge.
2005 Cons, J. “What’s the Good of Mercators? Cartography and the Political Ecology of Place.” Graduate Journal of Social Sciences. Volume 2, Issue 1. 7-36.
