Naisargi Dave

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Areas of interest

Sociocultural Anthropology
South and Southeast Asia

Biography

Main Bio

To view Professor Dave’s biography, please visit the Department of Anthropology website

Select publications

2023. Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. Durham: Duke University Press.
2023. A Writing Life. Anthropology & Humanism.
2023. The Permissible & the Perverse: Indian Geographies of Interspecies Sex. With Alok Gupta.Environment & Planning E.
2022. Love & Other Injustices: On Humans, Animals, and an Ethics of Indifference. • Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Volume 42, Number 3, December 2022
2021. For a Synaesthetics of Seeing. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 39(1): 143-149.
2019. Kamadhenu’s Last Stand: On Animal Refusal to Work. In How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet, Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette, eds. University of New Mexico Press.
2019. Narcissus. In Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, Anand Pandian and Cymene Howe, eds. Punctum Books.
2019. The Tyranny of Consistency. In Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food, Samantha King, et al, eds. Fordham University Press.
2017. Something, Everything, Nothing; or, Cows, Dogs, and Maggots. Social Text 35 (1): 35-57.
2017. Witness: Humans, Animals, and the Politics of Becoming. In Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming, Joao Biehl and Peter Locke, eds. Duke University Press.
2015. Brighupati Singh & Naisargi Dave. On the Killing and Killability of Animals: Nonmoral Thoughts for the Anthropology of Ethics. Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 35(2): 232-245.
2014. Witness: Humans, Animals, and the Politics of Becoming. Cultural Anthropology 29(3): 433-456. Reprinted, with minor edits, in Unfinished (2017).
2014. Death and Family: Queer Archives of the Space Between. In Leela Fernandes (ed.), The Handbook on Gender in South Asia. London: Routledge.
2012. Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics. Durham: Duke University Press. (South Asia edition published in 2016, New Delhi: Zubaan)
2011. Indian and Lesbian and What Came Next: Affect, Commensuration, and Queer Emergences. American Ethnologist 38 (4): 650-665.
2011. “Abundance and Loss: Queer Intimacies in South Asia.” Feminist Studies 37(1): 1-15.
2011. “Activism as Ethical Practice: Queer Politics in Contemporary India.” Cultural Dynamics. 23(1): 3-20.
2011. “Ordering Justice, Fixing Dreams: An Ethnography of Queer Legal Activism.” In Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives on Law in India. Arvind Narrain and Alok Gupta, editors. Pp. 25-42. New Delhi: Yoda Press.
2010. “To Render Real the Imagined: An Ethnographic History of Lesbian Community in India.” In Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35(3): 595-619.
Book Reviews & Other Essays
2018. What it Feels Like to Be Free: The Tense of Justice. Forum on “Justice,” Cultural Anthropology.
2015. What Animals Teach Us About Politics. By Brian Massumi. Somatosphere.
2015. Queer Respites. Forum on “Queer Futures,” Cultural Anthropology.
2015. Naisargi N. Dave and Tom Boellstorff. Introduction: The Production and Reproduction of Queer Anthropology. Forum on “Queer Futures,” Cultural Anthropology online.
2014. Deviations. By Gayle Rubin. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20(1):176-177.
2008. “Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures. By Gayatri Gopinath.” American Ethnologist 35(4): 4090-4094.
Phu, Thy & Brown, Elspeth & Dewan, Deepali. (2017). “The Family Camera Network”. Photography and Culture. 10. 1-17. 10.1080/17514517.2017.1327562.
Dewan, Deepali. (2014). We’ll Take Your Artifacts but Not Your People: The Komagata Maru in Canada’s South Asian Diasporic History. Trans Asia Photography. 5. 10.1215/215820251_5-1-104.
Dewan, Deepali. (2014). We’ll Take Your Artifacts but Not Your People: The Komagata Maru in Canada’s South Asian Diasporic History. Trans Asia Photography. 5. 10.1215/215820251_5-1-104.
Dewan, Deepali & Hackett, Sophie. (2009). Cumulative Affect: Museum Collections, Photography and Studio Portraiture. Photography and Culture. 2. 337-348. 10.2752/175145109X12532077132518.
Dewan, Deepali. (2004). Deepali Dewan. Review of "‘Photos of the Gods’: The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India" by Christopher Pinney. Caa.reviews. 10.3202/caa.reviews.2004.98.