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Institute of Social Anthropology
Postcolonial Security States: A Research Agenda (virtual talk)
This is a virtual talk. Please contact Sandra Burri (s.burri@unibas.ch) for the zoom link.
In my last book, I focused on how family relations, feminisms, race and religion were constructed through ideologies of exceptional citizenship. My goal was to show how security states operate through different imperial histories, and in the case of the US, through a belief in American exceptionalism. This lecture shifts focus to South Asia/India, showing how the postcolonial security state, a regime of governance we have called “Security from the South,” (Socialtext 152, 2022; Annual Review of Anthropology, 2023), requires different theoretical tools. Transnational feminism provides one such political and analytical approach, and my talk will focus on its importance in anthropological research today.
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