Naisargi N Davé

Indifference

On the PRAXIS of Interspecies Being

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Produktbeschreibung

Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India, arguing for an interspecies relationality premised on indifference: that is, an orientation of mutual regard rather than curiosity, love, desire, or animus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2023
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020158
• ISBN-10: 1478020156
• Artikelnr.: 66762488

Autorenporträt

Naisargi N. Davé is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and author of Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What Is Indifference?  1
1. Witness: How Do We Come to Occupy a Different Skin?  13
2. Biography: Why Is Moral Attention to the Animal so Repulsive?  31
3. Contradiction: How Is the Otherwise Exhausted?  55
4. Sound: Can the Subaltern Be Silent?  73
5. Interlude: Take a Walk with Me  91
6. Touch: Can Indifference Be the Basis for an Ethical Engagement with the
World?  108
7. Sex: What Does Cow Protection Protect (with Alok Gupta)  125
8. Appetite: Does That Which Is Inevitable Cease to Matter?  146
Acknowledgments  167
Bibliography  171
Index  191