Books
Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt Along a South Asian River, Stanford University Press, 2015.
Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy and the Intimate Historical Self, Columbia University Press, 2007.
The Jadu House: Intimate Histories of Anglo-India, Doubleday/Black Swan 2000.
Edited Volumes
Bear and Mathur, Remaking the Public Good: a New Anthropology of Bureaucracy, Cambridge Anthropology (Special Issue), 33(1), 2015.
Bear, Birla, Puri, Speculation: Futures and Capitalism in India, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (Special Issue), 35:3, 2015.
Doubt, Conflict and Mediation: An Anthropology of Modern Time, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Special Issue), 20(S1), 2014.
Articles
“Anthropological Futures: for a Critical Political Economy of Capitalist Time,” (ASA Raymond Firth Lecture 2016), 142-158, Social Anthropology, 25:2, 2017.
“Time as Technique,“ Annual Review of Anthropology, 45, 487-502, 2016.
“Capitalist Divination: Popularist Speculators and Technologies of Imagination on a South Asian River,” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 35:3, Winter 2015.
Bear, L and N. Mathur, “Remaking the Public Good: a New Anthropology of Bureaucracy,” Cambridge Anthropology, 33(1),18-34, 2015.
“For Labour: Ajeet’s Accident and the Ethics of Technological Fixes in Time,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(S1), 71-88, 2014.
“Doubt, Conflict and Mediation: An Anthropology of Modern Time” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(S1): 3-30, 2014.
“Capital and Time: Uncertainty and Qualitative Measures of Inequality,” Piketty Symposium, British Journal of Sociology, 65(4), 639-649, 2014.
“The Antinomies of Audit: Opacity, Instability and Charisma in the Economic Governance of a Hooghly Shipyard,” Economy and Society, 42(3), 375-397, 2013.
“Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Planning, Informality and Neo-Liberal Governance on the Hooghly,” Focaal, 61, 46-60, 2013.
“At the Vanguard of the Knowledge Revolution: Nationalism, Freedom and Consumption in the lives of international call centre workers in Kolkata,” Berliner Debatte 3, 14 Jg, 37-46, 2003.
“Public Genealogies: Nations, Documents and Bodies in Anglo-Indian Railway Family Histories,” Contributions to Indian Sociology, 35(3), 355-388, 2001.
“Miscegenations of Modernity: Constructing European Respectability and Race in the Indian Railway Colony, 1857-1931” Women’s History Review, Vol. 3, No. 4, 531-48, 1994.
Book Chapters
“’This Body is Our Body’: the Productive Powers of Viswakarma and Ranna Puja in a Neo-Liberal Shipyard” in F. Cannell and S. McKinnon (eds) Vital Relations: Kinship as a Critique of Modernity, SAR Press, 155-178, 2013.
“Sympathy and its Material Boundaries: Necropolitics, Labour and Waste on the Hooghly,” in C. Alexander and J. Reno (eds), Recycling Economies, Zed Press, 185-203, 2012.
J.M.Burki, C. Carolin, G. Pollock & L. Bear, “Warte Mal! And Interventionist Art” in P. Basu and Sharon Macdonald, Exhibition Experiments: Technologies and Cultures of Display,Oxford: Blackwell, 154-174, 2007.
“Ruins and Ghosts: the Domestic Uncanny and the Materialisation of Anglo-Indian Genealogies” in J. Carsten, (ed), Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness, Blackwell, 36-57, 2007.
“An Economy of Suffering: Addressing the Violence of Discipline in Railway Workers’ Petitions to the Agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930-47” in A. Rao and S. Peirce (eds), Discipline and the Other Body, Durham NC: Duke University Press, 243-272, 2006.
“School Stories and the Interior Frontiers of Citizenship: Tracing the Domestic Life of Anglo-Indian Education” in V.Benei (ed), Education and Nationalism in Europe, South Asia, China: Manufacturing citizenship, London: Routledge, 236-261, 2005.