Sawhney, Mehak and Laura McLean (co-editors).Capture All: A Sonic Investigation,Disclaimer, co-published by Liquid Architecture, Melbourne, and Sarai, Delhi, 2022.
Sawhney, Mehak. “Aqua Audibilis: Sonic Borders and the Making of Underwater Territory,” Special Issue on “When Was the Smart Border?” Cultural Studies (accepted, forthcoming Spring 2025).
Sawhney, Mehak. “Infrastructure of Life: Public Address, Listening and Crowds in the Delhi Metro and Kumbh,” Media, Culture & Society 44, no. 2 (2022): 341-361.
(Online First: September 2021)
Sawhney, Mehak. “Acoustic State: Surveillance and Subjectification in Postcolonial India,” In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Sound Studies: Politics, Communities, Futures, edited by Jennifer Stoever, Dolores Inés Casillas and Qiushi Xu. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2027.
Sterne, Jonathan and Mehak Sawhney (co-authors). “The Acousmatic Question and the Will to Datafy: Otter.ai, Low-Resource Languages and the Politics of Machine Listening,” Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies 9, no. 2 (2022): 288-306.
– Japanese translation by NAKAGAWA Katsushi, forthcoming December 2024.
Sterne, Jonathan, Mehak Sawhney and Andy Stuhl (co-authors). “Collected Listening, or, What Is Listening in Machine Listening?” In The Sound of AI, by Jonathan Sterne. Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming.
Sawhney, Mehak. “Media-Milieu Dialectic: Thinking Beyond Elemental Media,” (under review).
Sawhney, Mehak. “Premediations of Carcerality: Notes on Targeted Surveillance in Postcolonial India,” Platypus, Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, American Anthropological Association, 2024.
Sawhney, Mehak. “Fuelled by Leaked Evidence and Illegal Surveillance, Media Trials the New Normal in India,” The Wire, 10 October 2020.
Vemuri, Ayesha and Mehak Sawhney. “Montreal Academics against Police Brutality and Right-wing Hindu Nationalism in India,” Canadian Dimension, 18 December 2019.
Couture, Sadie, Jonathan Sterne, Mehak Sawhney, et al. “Sensate Sovereignty: A Dialogue on Dylan Robinson’s Hungry Listening,” Amodern, 2020.
Sawhney, Mehak. “The Boycott of Hindi and Gurmukhi in the Frontier Province,” Premchand on National Language (Rashtrabhasha). Delhi: Aakar Books, 2019. 148-153. (Hindi to English)
Sawhney, Mehak.“Hinglish Is Cool Yaar!” by Ravi Ratlami, Hinglish Live: Language Mixing across Media, edited by Francesca Orsini and Ravikant. Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2022. (Hindi to English)