Tuesday
06
August 2024
5:00 PM IST
Location
Online Via Zoom
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Risky Intimacies: Migration, Demography, and Intimacy in Uttarakhand
Perceptions of Risk in the Himalayas
Radhika Govindrajan
Associate Professor
Anthropology and International Studies
University of Washington
Speaker
This talk explores how migration to mountain villages in Uttarakhand - both historic and recent - feeds a growing moral panic about how the distinctive cultural and social identity of mountain people (paharis) is at risk. I draw on ethnographic research to illuminate how discourses of demographic threat surface and shape everyday intimate life.
Speaker
Radhika Govindrajan
Radhika Govindrajan is the author of Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018 and Penguin in 2019.
