In recent years, disappointment has emerged as a prominent topic of anthropological inquiry
and theorization. We explore this disciplinary interest in order to probe the conditions that …

This article explores how'Zero Budget Natural Farming', an Indian natural farming movement
centered on its founder and guru Subhash Palekar, enacts alternative agrarian worlds …

This article argues that gaushalas, or cow shelters, in India are mobilized as sites of
Hindutva or Hindu ultranationalism, where it is a “vulnerable” Hindu Indian nation—or the …

The economic implications of biopolitics–or the administration, regulation, and control of life–
have received significant attention in recent geographical and cognate scholarship. An …

A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban One
of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today …

During ethnographic research on the biopolitics of culinary nationalism in Peru, I visited a
guinea pig breeding farm north of Lima. Guinea pigs are considered “food animals” in the …

In Indifference, Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism
in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal activists, farmers …

In this article, Naisargi N. Dave examines the relationship between animals and love in
India, animals and love in multispecies anthropology, and between ethics and love more …

In Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in
contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and …

This article focuses on political technologies applied in response to India's contemporary
beef ban and ensuing violence. The beef ban, enacted in several Indian states, prevents the …