Unsettling Queer Anthropology

"Unsettling Queer Anthropology offers a constellation of views of queer anthropology, from the mess, beauty, violences, and vitality that constitute it. THe contributors engage throughout with queerness as object, method, mode of inquiry, ethos, and intellectual orientation. This book demonstrates that queer anthropology is always unsettling itself, always striving and gladly failing, always aspirationally queer." --Naisargi N. Davé 

March 28th, 2-4pm, AP246

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Margot Weiss (editor) is Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Wesleyan University, where she coordinates Queer Studies, and former cochair of the Association for Queer Anthropology. She is the author of Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality (Duke University Press, 2011), which won the Ruth Benedict Book Prize in Queer Anthropology and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies, and coeditor of Queer Then and Now:The David R. Kessler Lectures (with Debanuj DasGupta and Joseph Donica, 2023). Her current book project explores the politics of institutional knowledge production and the place of desire in queer/ left activism.
 
Scott L. Morgensen (contributor) is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Queen’s University, where he co-founded and co-organizes the Queen’s Feminist Ethnography Network. His scholarship on the intertwined histories of anthropology and queer politics has been published in queer and feminist anthropology, at their junctures with the fields of Indigenous studies, critical ethnic studies, and American studies. His current writing is examining queer ethnography and feminist ethnography as contributions to liberative methodology, pedagogy, and theory in gender studies and interdisciplinary fields.
 
Anne Spice (contributor) is Tlingit, a member of the Deisheetan clan and Kwanlin Dun First Nation. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. An activist anthropologist and land defender, she studies the confluence of colonialism and racial capitalism and seeks to resist its damaging effects on Indigenous communities. 
 
Naisargi N. Davé (discussant) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her work concerns intra- and interspecies ethics, politics, and relationality in contemporary India. Davé is the author of two award-winning books, Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being (2023) and Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics (2012), both from Duke University Press. She is currently working on a third book, Murder: The Social Life of Violent Death.