Davé / Naisargi N. Dave Indifference

On the Praxis of Interspecies Being
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2713-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davé, Naisargi N.

Naisargi N. Dave, Dave

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.