Mayanthi Fernando is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests include secularity; Islam; more-than-multispecies ecologies; histories of the body and consciousness; liberalism and law; and gender and sexuality. She is the author of The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (Duke University Press, 2014) and co-editor of Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader (Duke University Press, 2021). She is currently working on a second monograph on secularity and the Anthropocene and how to think in more-than-secular ways about more-than-human worlds.
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More-than-Natural, More-than-Human, More-than-Secular
The Anthropocene, many would argue, is a consequence of what Bruno Latour (1993) calls the modern constitution—that is, the divide between the natural world and... More
Innocent Monsters
Some get to fear monsters. Others must be them. A few years ago, a sixty-year-old white woman in France attacked another woman in niqab, calling her Belphegor,... More
Introduction: Refugees and the Crisis of Europe
Since the beginning of 2015, an unprecedented number of people from Middle Eastern and African countries—many of them fleeing war, persecution, and unrelenting ... More
Refugees and the Crisis of Europe
Since the beginning of 2015, an unprecedented number of people from Middle Eastern and African countries—many of them fleeing war, persecution, and unrelenting ... More