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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center presents \;Mabel
Denzin Gergan from \;Vanderbilt University.Indigeneity and decoloniza
tion are politically charged terms in South Asia. The Indian state rejects
Indigeneity as a category\, even as Adivasi and other tribal communities
claim it to contest dispossession while Hindu nationalists in India and th
e diaspora invoke both terms to cast majoritarian politics as anti-colonia
l resistance. This workshop takes up these tensions through a pre-circulat
ed short essay\, “Indigeneity and Its Many Lives: Hindutva’s Cooptation an
d Indigenous Assertions in India\,” to ask why Indigenous struggles remain
marginal to South Asian studies. Together\, we will consider what it mean
s to trace continuities and ruptures between settler colonial and so-calle
d postcolonial contexts\, and what commitments follow for fieldwork\, writ
ing and teaching when Indigeneity is taken seriously as both a contested p
olitical claim and a relational tie to land. Participants are asked to rea
d the essay in advance.Mabel Denzin Gergan\nis assistant professor of Asia
n studies at Vanderbilt University. She is a\nscholar of environmental jus
tice\, indigeneity and race. Her research and\nteaching are grounded in th
e Indian Himalayan region and attend to the racial\nand colonial logics un
derlying Indigenous communities’ disproportionate\nexposure to environment
al risk and vulnerability.
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SUMMARY:Workshop | Indigeneity and Its Many Lives in South Asia
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center
presents \;Mabel Denzin Gergan from \;Vanderbilt Univ
ersity.
Indigeneity and decolonization are politically charge
d terms in South Asia. The Indian state rejects Indigeneity as a category\
, even as Adivasi and other tribal communities claim it to contest disposs
ession while Hindu nationalists in India and the diaspora invoke both term
s to cast majoritarian politics as anti-colonial resistance.
This w
orkshop takes up these tensions through a pre-circulated short essay\, “In
digeneity and Its Many Lives: Hindutva’s Cooptation and Indigenous Asserti
ons in India\,” to ask why Indigenous struggles remain marginal to South A
sian studies.
Together\, we will consider what it means to trace co
ntinuities and ruptures between settler colonial and so-called postcolonia
l contexts\, and what commitments follow for fieldwork\, writing and teach
ing when Indigeneity is taken seriously as both a contested political clai
m and a relational tie to land. Participants are asked to read the ess
ay in advance.
Mabel Denzin Gergan\nis assista
nt professor of Asian studies at Vanderbilt University. She is a\nscholar
of environmental justice\, indigeneity and race. Her research and\nteachin
g are grounded in the Indian Himalayan region and attend to the racial\nan
d colonial logics underlying Indigenous communities’ disproportionate\nexp
osure to environmental risk and vulnerability.
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