Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
6:00 – 7:30 PM EST
In-person event
Thomas Schmidheiny Lecture Room, Mugar 200
Radhika Govindrajan
Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington
This talk explores how fascist politics is vitalized and naturalized through claims that it is fueled by the agency and desires of more-than-human beings. Drawing on ethnographic evidence from India, it argues that celebratory accounts of ontological politics in which nonhumans play a key part can depoliticize them in ways that do not allow for a sustained and serious engagement with their situated histories and politics.
Radhika Govindrajan is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington. Her book Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018 and Penguin Random House India in 2019.
Organized by the Ecologies of Justice Initiative Speaker Series
