PUBLICATIONS

 

Books

 

2018    Cultivating Charismatic Power: Islamic Leadership Practice in China, Palgrave                MacMillan, USA. 215 pages.

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Films

 

2016    Soul Singer, screened at Dhaka International Short Film Festival.

 

2007    Living Chinese Philosophy. Screened at the Hawaii International Film Festival 2007 and Asia Pacific Conference 2007. Distributed in the USA by Insight Media and available through Universities worldwide.

 

2005    A Vital Force: Women and development in Tibet and Yunnan. Available in University of    Otago Library.

 

2005    A Guide to Beekeeping in the Tropics - Educational video filmed and distributed in Fiji,    funded by NZ Aid.

 

2003    Releasing the Dragon: Small businesses in China's Market Economy. Available in            University of Otago Library.

 

 

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Refereed Journal Articles

 

Cone, T. C. Forthcoming (2027). ‘Authority Without Evidence? Teaching Knowledge Production Through GenAI in Anthropology’. Social Anthropology/Anthologie Sociale Forum.
 

Cone, T. C. & Zhou, T. (2026). Social dreaming in contemporary China: Cultural symbolism, collective anxieties, and cross-cultural dream interpretation. Socioanalysis: Journal of Group Relations Australia. (Accepted with revisions).
 

Cone, T. C. (2025). Maintaining social stability: The regulation of authority in a Chinese Sufi order. Journal of Chinese Religions (Special Issue: Muslim Secularities in China). Johns Hopkins University Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/jcr.2025.a960755
 

Cone, T. C. (2023). Chinese Qadiriyya Sufism: Glimpses into a syncretic practice. Waikato Islamic Studies Review, 9(1). https://www.waikato.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/945109/Waikato-Islamic-Studies-Review-Vol-9.-No-1.pdf
 

Anderson, V., Cone, T., Rafferty, R., & Inoue, N. (2021). Mobile agency and relational webs in women's narratives of international study. Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33867565/
 

Cone, T. C. (2020). Narratives of navigation: Refugee-background women’s higher education journeys in Bangladesh and New Zealand. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 17(1). https://sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites/article/view/458
 

Cone, T. C. (2017). Sounding the soul: Mysticism and music on film. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 18(1), 64–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2016.1261615
 

Cone, T. C. (2015). Experimental film and anthropology. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 16(3), 267–279. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2015.1016394

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Book Chapters

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Cone, T. C. (2026). Religious Mothering and Female Qadiriyya Devotion: The Legacy of Saint Ayisha in Northwest China. In Robinson, Cheruvallil and Sabu (Ed.), Faithful mothering across the globe: Between politics, religion and secularity. Bloomsbury Publishers. (Accepted)

 

Cone, T.C (2022).  Teaching from the Heart: Trauma and Affective Pedagogies in Trauma Informed Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities in Skibba, C (Ed.), Gender Based Violence and Pedagogy, Emerald Publishing.

 

2019    The Worlding of Words: Post-monolingual education at the Asian University for              Women. In V. Anderson & H. Johnson (Eds.), Migration, education and translation: Cross-       disciplinary perspectives on human mobility and cultural encounters in education settings.        Abingdon: Routledge. 

 

2017    Islam: Saints and Sacred Geographies: China, entry in Encyclopedia of Women and            Islamic Cultures, Brill USA. 

 

2017    City of Saints: Linxia as the ‘centre’ of Qadiriyya Sufism in Northwest China, in Hsun          Chang & Benjamin Penny (eds.), Religion in Taiwan and China : Locality and Transmission,        Taipei, Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, 2017.

 

2014    Journeys of knowledge: the role of a Chinese Sufi gongbei in generating mobility between China and Iran,  in Religion and Mobility in a Globalising Asia: New Ethnographic          Explorations, Edited by Sinwen Lau and Nanlai Cao. Routledge Press.