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

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

Queer Respites

Theorizing the Contemporary

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

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