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Indifference Naisargi N. Dave

Indifference By Naisargi N. Dave

Indifference by Naisargi N. Dave


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Naisargi N. Dave 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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Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being by Naisargi N. Dave

In Indifference, Naisargi N. Dave examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal activists, farmers, laborers, transporters, and animals themselves, and moving across animal shelters and dairy farms to city streets and abattoirs, Dave shows how human-animal relations often manifest through care and violence. More surprisingly, what Dave also finds animating interspecies relationality in India is an ethic of indifference---that is, an orientation of mutual regard rather than curiosity, love, desire, or animus. For Dave, indifference is a respect for others in their otherness that allows human and nonhuman animals to flourish in immanent encounters. Indifference, then, becomes the basis for an interspecies ethics and a method of care and practice in everyday life. With indifference, Dave describes both a mode of relationality in the world and a scholarly approach: seeking what is possible when we approach ethico-political concepts with indifference rather than commitment or antagonism. Moments of indifference, Dave contends, offer the promise of otherwise worlds.

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Naisargi N. Dave is one of the most sophisticated, imaginative, and interdisciplinarily literate scholars of animality, activism on behalf of animals, animal slaughter, queerness, and postcolonial South Asia that I know. There is practically no one else to whom she can be compared for the counterintuitive turns of her thought and the spellbinding character of her ethnography. Not surprisingly, then, Indifference is a work of considerable consequence. -- Parama Roy, author of * Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial *
Naisargi N. Dave offers a deeply moving exploration of the vital political work of indifference as a mobilizing dehumanist force in this world. Dave brings us through animal activism and sacrifice with candor and extraordinary care. A riveting ethnography of immense beauty and force; I would follow her anywhere. -- Julietta Singh, author of * Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements *

"Dave calls for an ethic premised on 'not acquiring, not desiring, not in thrall, not hankering, not assimilating, not repairing, not consuming, not anthropologizing, not staring,'an ethic premised on living 'side by side, rather than face to face.'... [Her]book is a provocative intervention in the anthropology of ethics, moving beyond critiques of care, to what might be possible once we are able to live without a will for difference; to live side by side, rather than face to face."

-- Jack Jiang * Anthropology Book Forum *

About Naisargi N. Dave

Naisargi N. Dave 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.

Table of Contents

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

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NGR9781478025139
9781478025139
1478025131
Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being by Naisargi N. Dave
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
2023-08-04
208
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