Fatima Mojaddedi, "Body Mike: Alternating Words on the Afghan Frontier" This talk examines how the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan relies on a fetishistic misrecognition of speaking as inspiration, and takes linguistic expression as the dissemination of terroristic violence through oral networks of exchange and emboldening. It suggests that the more obvious powers of […]

Fall 2017 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: "Agrarian Questions in Urban India" Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington Based on recent life histories of urban migrants who work within informal sector occupations in Delhi and Hyderabad, we ask how “agrarian questions” orient workers’ attitudes to forms of labor and habitation. By also considering gender […]