Radhika Govindrajan delivered a lecture on ‘Spectral Justice: On Multispecies Haunting in Himalayan India’. It was chaired by Awadhendra Sharan. The discussant was Nayanika Mathur.
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This talk explores the possibilities and limits of multispecies justice through a focus on the haunting force of an undead animal who disrupted everyday life in the central Himalayan region of India. The speaker traces how the haunting of one woman by her dead bull prompted her quest to redress injury and repair their damaged relations. Her experience of seeking justice for an animal ghost invites us to consider the pursuit of justice as a spectral project that is always hauntingly incomplete.
Radhika Govindrajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of Animal Intimacies, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018 and Penguin Random House India in 2019.
Nayanika Mathur is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Oxford.
Awadhendra Sharan is Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
Friday, 25 February 2022, 7.30 pm, Zoom https://bit.ly/3Lvj850
