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Svati Shah

Guest Researcher, Associate Professor, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Centre for Women's and Gender Research
  • E-mails.shah@uib.no
  • Visitor Address
    Parkveien 9
    Ida Bloms hus
    5007 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7805
    5020 Bergen

Dr. Svati Shah is an anthropologist whose research emphasizes questions of political economy and queer feminist theory within South Asian Studies. Their research has addressed questions of sexuality, gender, migration and caste capitalism in India. Their current project focuses on the geneaology of queer movements in India and theories of urban and rural sexuality politics in contemporary assertions of nativist nationalism.

Breakfast meeting organized by SKOK, Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP), Centre on Law and Social Transformation and Bergen Global: Queer Politics & Democratic Rights in India: 1975 - Present. Presentation by Dr. Svati Shah on the nature and origins of contemporary LGBTQIA+ movements in India. 05.10.2022

Fields of competence 
Anthropological perspectives on social change
Class
Gender and migration
Race and Gender
Sexuality
South Asia
Transgender
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Department seminar: Dr. Svati Shah

The Department of Social Anthropology is happy to announce the upcoming seminar with Dr. Svati Shah (University of Massachusetts ). The title of the lecture is "The Art of Ethnographic Failure: Lessons on Theorizing from the Fieldnote for Queer South Asian Anthropology".

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Queer Politics & Democratic Rights in India: 1975 - Present

Presentation by Dr. Svati Shah on the nature and origins of contemporary LGBTQIA+ movements in India.