Naisargi N. Dave

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What It Feels Like to Be Free: The Tense of Justice

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What It Feels Like to Be Free: The Tense of Justice

From the start, my desire lay with Michel Foucault. In graduate school I watched his 1971 debate with Noam Chomsky, “Human Nature: Justice vs. Power,” and was t... More

Introduction: The Production and Reproduction of Queer Anthropology

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Introduction: The Production and Reproduction of Queer Anthropology

Historically, anthropologists have paid a high price for conducting dissertation research on a queer topic. With some notable exceptions like Esther Newton’s (1... More

Queer Respites

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Queer Respites

My first book was about queer activism in India. And because I have no imagination at all, the book was actually called Queer Activism in India (Dave 2012). Now... More

A Question from Bruno Latour

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A Question from Bruno Latour

I would like to know how the “no future” in the title of your roundtable currently resonates with queer anthropology. You have mentioned something that is very ... More