Radhika Govindrajan
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Anthropologist @ Univ of Washington. Author, Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (U Chicago Press 2018/ Penguin 2019).
Seattle/Delhi
Joined May 2016
In this new @TheJRAI article, I offer an ethnographic account of how rural women in India navigate the falsification of their complaints of gendered violence by villagers & local bureaucrats, and the implications this has for feminist analysis of the law.
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@DrSamiSchalk I’m so infuriated that you were subject to this brutality. Respect and solidarity. Sending healing wishes.
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@ActuallyyJP Totally, so many kinds of inequity that shape who is affected by this heat and how.
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@veenadubal I cannot begin to imagine the depth of your sorrow. Sam was a truly remarkable soul. His compassion and commitment to justice left a deep impression on us from the moment we first met him. I am holding you and your family in the light. I hope he is at peace.
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@shwetakrishnan So much, but just off the top of my head, pieces by Sophie Chao, María Elena García, Deborah Bird Rose, Thom Van Dooren (on mourning), Annu Jalais, Nayanika Mathur, Juno Parreñas, Alex Blanchette, Ambika Aiyadurai, Naisargi Dave, Alyssa Paredes. All excellent writers.
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@AOHSUsometimesY I can only imagine. It’s maddening. I felt the same dislocation when I was in India this winter, and folks were telling me COVID was done while the US was collapsing.
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@kookykarthik Not to mention the creepy story of how Boney abandoned the kids and flew to Venice because Beena aunty told him that some Italian dude had been flirting with Sridevi.
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@veenadubal Dear Veena, also one of Sam’s new colleagues. I am so sorry to hear this. Hoping he is found soon. Please let us know if you need anything.
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@SouthAsianBuoy Yes, please. I'm trying not to lose my shit at colleagues who think that only students (let alone staff and faculty) in South Asia have the right to be affected by what is going on. It's horrendous enough as is without having to constantly explain your mental state to people.
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@shwetakrishnan Another vote for @AnnuJal & @JunoIsHere's fabulous books. I'm also excited about @NayanikaM's Crooked Cats. I'd add Benedicte Boisseron's Afro-Dog, Zakkiyah Iman Jackson's Becoming Human, Alex Nading's Mosquito Trails, Sophie Chao's work (no book yet), & Marcus Baynes-Rock's book.
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@alfgunvald I’m so sorry you’ve had to deal with this again, Alf. Solidarity. Unfortunately, from painful past experience with him, I don’t have much faith in the decency of our field.
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@itihaasnaama It’s always so hard to be in two worlds at once. But this time, it has a sense of utter impossibility.
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@ShachiSeth This!! Unfortunately, the excuse that vicious, misogynistic, slanderous tweets were part of some higher "critique" worked for so many until the mask came off. Unfortunately there never is any reckoning because abuse is baked into this field and is part of becoming a "star".
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@TanyaMatthan Another vote for Juno Parreñas and Alex Blanchette’s books. And @NayanikaM’s Crooked Cats. @AnnuJal’s Forest of Tigers! Also Muhammad Kavesh’s new book, Animal Enthusiasms, on multispecies relations in Pakistan.
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@SnehaAnnavarapu @_danielle_carr @SindujaRaja18 Thank you!! That means so much to me. And let me add to the list: The Day of Shelly’s Death, by Renata Rosaldo. Angela Garcia’s The Pastoral Clinic. Shapeshifters by Aimee Meredith Cox. And anything by Kirin Narayan.
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@anjaliarondekar We can see them fall from the trees as we walk. And the crows, dogs, and mongooses crowd in as soon as it happens. Terrifying.
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@immamagpie @_neelofer Yamini Narayanan, Ambika Aiyadurai, Annu Jalais, Maan Barua, Shivani Kapoor, to name just a few! Also, I can’t wait to read your work.
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@itihaasnaama “Pyaar kare aur note bhi mange” - on demonetization and loving sacrifice for the nation.
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@Mubbashir_R @AsheeshKSi This is just so enraging. And frankly it should give radical scholars of color pause before they consider working @Georgetown. I’m so sorry, Mubbashir. If only they understood what a brilliant scholar, inspiring teacher, and fabulous colleague they have lost.
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@dasrajorshi Bengt Karlsson -Anthropology and the indigenous slot : claims to and debates about indigenous peoples' status in India.
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@SnehaAnnavarapu In addition to all the fabulous books mentioned here already, The Book of Gold Leaf by Mirza Waheed, Daisy Hasan’s The To-Let House, Anjum Hasan’s short stories set in Bangalore, Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad, the Marseille trilogy by Jean Claude Izzo.
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@Ranjana_rahul Once again, I’m so sorry, Rahul. This kind of toxic behavior has been aided, abetted, and even amplified by South Asianists both on Twitter and off for far too long.
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@AniruddhaHD It really is alarming. Some of the bigger bats are dipping their bodies in the lake. I wonder if it’s a strategy to keep cool. But the smaller bats are dying in droves. It’s not even lack of water, just the heat in the air.
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@MythriJega This made me sick to my stomach when I saw it this morning. There was something about that last line in particular. And to know that he didn't think twice about all the people he might infect in LKA (given that he was exposed). UGH. Thinking of you and yours, M. Lots of <3.
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@jaredmargulies @maanbarua I love @maanbarua and @UEcologies work! Looking forward to reading more of it. But I was also thinking of work that takes the park as a social world and delves into everyday religiosity (eg. bhagwat kathas) & right-wing subjectivity; romance; exercise; & sociality, all together.
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@Ethnography911 Some important context if you decide to watch the film (tldr: it buttresses and legitimizes right-wing imaginings of the nation):
thread with thinkpieces on Rajamouli’s RRR and its dangerous Hindutva propaganda.
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@DisabilityStor1 It really has been so heartbreaking. Thankfully we found his half-eaten body in the ravine below the house, and were able to give him a proper burial. That helped. Thank you!.
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@SnehaAnnavarapu Ugh. I feel like we need a generic response that we can all cut and paste (the only response to the sadly predictable and generic nature of these comments).
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@shwetakrishnan @AnnuJal @JunoIsHere @NayanikaM Ooh, and another vote for Porkopolis and Dangerous Crossings. And Animal's People as well. Such a great thread! Also, thank you! So honored that you enjoyed Animal Intimacies.
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@LaheLaheCulture I’m sorry. Dealing with the guilt of not being around all the time while recognizing it’s impossible is so very hard. Sending solidarity.
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@ProfSrilaRoy @alfgunvald This is absolutely outrageous and just so vile. I’m so sorry, Srila. In solidarity with you and Alf.
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@SnehaAnnavarapu Lolol. It’s a traaap! Mine always say the same thing. And then the second I head to another room to work, they complain that I come home only to work.
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@veenadubal I just shared your Tweet with students, faculty and staff in our department. Hoping someone saw him these last few weeks.
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@Majuli_Chapori It really is so devastating. @Dr_mauraf is an incredible scholar, and this will be a huge blow to students at Muhlenberg who have lost a committed and compassionate teacher. She has always been an unwavering voice in favor of justice. Can't believe it.
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@DollyKikon Lol. In a world of shifting connections, R2 is the one friend who can be counted on to always stay in touch.
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@lightermachis Dude, seriously. I’m in France right now, and while the pastry is FABULOUS, unke khane me itna kam namak hai. 😭 About time someone punctures the mythology of French cuisine. How sophisticated is your technique if there’s no namak?!.
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@mudede Yep! Academic freedom was always on shaky ground when it came to critiques of the Indian state, but things have really deteriorated since 2014. The space for dissent of any kind is shrinking rapidly, and the consequences are frightening. It’s really devastating.
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@ritodhi_c @Ranjana_rahul @GeogSara @DrCRampini @PasangYangjee @SereanaNaepi @karlyannburch @ManishEcoHydro Thanks so much, Ritodhi. It’s really so dispiriting & enraging to see bullies thrive while kind, generous folks are pushed out of the academy every day. The only solace, as you point out, is the existence of those who invest in solidarity and support. May their numbers grow!.
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@SnehaAnnavarapu Ok, Filmfare reports that Ranveer Singh has blessed the union with “❤️🧿”. Bas, he was the only thing missing from this bonkers news.
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@Lakshit59976109 This. I once had a reviewer say there were too many “voices” in my ethnography which created a “muddle.”.
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@DollyKikon @niranjwrite @ritodhi_c @Ranjana_rahul @GeogSara Ethnographic writing as a form of political life is the perfect way to put it.
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@sohinichat @Suryakant_Waghm He just finished speaking, but the q and a is going. Hopefully there’s a recording.
@HSSiitgn1 invites you to a talk on ‘Love Beyond the Holy Cow Hindu Cosmopolitanism and the Search for a Vegetarian Dog’ on Aug 17, at 5 pm. Speaker: Prof Suryakant Waghmore, Professor, HSS @iitbombay. Join the meeting on Zoom:.Meeting ID: 91041632323.Passcode: 761833
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@LabSpecEth Ugh, this is so enraging, Elizabeth. I’m sorry. I wish your institution was more supportive of the amazing work you’ve been doing. We, in the discipline, are really thankful for all the wonderful publishing, mentorship, and institution breaking you’ve been doing.
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@karimnannwore Sher Ali Tareen's Defending Muhammad in Modernity. He also has a new book on Muslim-Hindu friendship coming out this fall.
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@1bradweiss Thanks so much, Brad. I really appreciate the good wishes. It’s just so enraging because there was a year to prepare for this moment. The lapses and active negligence on part of the state are criminal. And people are dying in droves because of it.
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@_super_bass YES! The idea that asking for empirical specificity, and what that entails in terms of ethics and politics, is "boring" or "unimaginative" says all you need to know about the state of our fields. It produces thin work and also does such a disservice to situated politics.
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@swatiatrest Right? The lack of oversight from the IRB in the US doesn’t surprise me (we’ve seen this so, so many times before) but this is literally illegal.
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@dreamisgone93 Absolutely. I think some work in this field, despite being avowedly “political”, is obsessed with creating timeless theory, unmoored by the troublesome constraints of history and ongoing political struggles. That fantasy of being unmoored from time and space is so disturbing.
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@MarginalS4th @SevenDeviled Sharad Chari’s work on Tirupur, Maura Finkelstein’s Archive of Loss.
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@TanyaMatthan Oh, and @DollyKikon and Sanjoy Barbora have a wonderful piece on living with lemons and elephants in Assam.
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@bombil_fry Even weirder was when two mongooses grabbed one apiece and dragged them back to their lair.
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@Muralisvelan @MukulikaB I fully agree that this is primarily a politics of north and western India, and that this is not the case with the south (with the exception of Karnataka). My own work is on Uttarakhand, and my arguments are limited to that region.
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@mkhanpasha @Hulegu Awww. Glad RGB is restored to health. Every 🐈 needs a few💨 every now and then.
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@swatiatrest Thanks, Swati. And same. Hearing about lots of folks in the mountains who are getting sick. And the lack of medical facilities is just criminal.
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@veenadubal @MountRainierNPS This is such a beautiful picture.❤️ I hope Sam comes home soon. Sending you all love and light.
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@rajivmohabir The “she is a Guyanese” was just sickening. As for caste, when Nadia asked if one of the prospective matches knew about her being Guyanese, the matchmaker said caste was “no bar” for him, which effectively revealed that the “problem” of matchmaking for Nadia was caste.
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@MaliniSur @aziakashmir @MythriJega @kalramnath Thank you so much, M! Delighted to be in the company of these amazing scholars. ❤️🥰.
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@MaliniSur In addition to the fantastic work mentioned here already, work by Waqas Butt and Shivani Kapoor.
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@ProjectNewsLab As I just said to @MukulikaB, I think we urgently need analysis of how such everyday relationships are drawn into and weaponized by the politics of Hindu supremacy which then claims that the murders of minorities are acts of love: for cows, for Hindus, & for the Hindu nation.
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@SnehaAnnavarapu God, I am so sorry, Sneha. You must be going out of your mind. I’m hoping they all recover quickly and painlessly. Sending you love and hugs.
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@GeogSara This resonates so much with conversations in Uttarakhand. The idea that things are be-time - the idea that you could have forest fires in December, for example - is something that comes up all the time. It’s existentially exhausting to have to be ready for anything at any time.
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@sahanagee @ProfSrilaRoy Love this so much!! And yes, HOW much we have talked about this over the years, including only two weeks ago. 😂 Much more of this, please. Selfishly, this couldn’t have come at a better time as I muddle through writing about the scandalous pleasures of TikTok for young women.
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