Academic Publications

Philip, Shannon and Veena Mani, (2025)eds.  Special Issue on Youth Masculinities from the Global South for Boyhood Studies Journal.17.2 https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/17/2/bhs170201.xml

Mani, Veena, and Mathangi Krishnamurthy, (2024) eds The Postcolonial Sporting Body: Contemporary Indian Investigations. Vol. 20. Research in the Sociology of Sport. Leeds, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2024 
https://bookstore.emerald.com/the-postcolonial-sporting-body-hb-9781804557839.html

Mani, Veena and Shannon Philip, (2024)eds. Special Issue on Youth Masculinities from the Global South for Boyhood Studies Journal.17.1 https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/17/1/bhs170101.xml

Mani, Veena (2022) Poets of Circumstances: Love, Trauma and Death in Digital Poetry, South Asian Review, 43:1-2, 121-131, DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2022.2038996

Mani, Veena., & Krishnamurthy, M. (2021). The Work of Sporting Bodies: Football and Masculinity in North Kerala. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 7(1), 147-169. https://doi.org/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.7.1.0147

Mani, Veena and Mathangi Krishnamurthy. (2018) Making a Locality: The Politics of Land and Football in North Kerala. Leisure Studies; 37 (6); pp.721-734. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2018.1480651

Mani, Veena. (2018) Representations of an Olympian and ‘Authentic’ Love for Football”. Ravenshaw Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol 8, 32-45.

Mani, V. (2024) Colonial Affects: Desire and Power in a Sporting Figure of the Malabar Special Police. pp. 55–72. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476-285420240000020004

Mani, V. (2023), Activism as Collective Care: Football Practices in Malabar, Kerala Montezde Oca, J. and Thangaraj, S. (Ed.) AthleticActivism (Research in the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 17), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 123-139. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476-285420230000017008

Mani, V. (2023) Respective author profiles of Kirin Narayan and Arundhati Subramanian in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English. (Eds. by Manju Jaidka and Tej N.Dhar). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003279273

Mani, V. and Krishnamurthy, M. (2016), “Sociology of Sport: India”, Sociology of Sport: A Global Subdiscipline in Review (Research in the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 37-57. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476- 285420160000009003