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What Is A River? Environmental Humanities Through a South Asianist Lens
March 13 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Do we know what a river is? Is a river necessarily part of nature? Do we know what nature is? Does a focus on nature necessarily occlude politics, or are we restricted to a mere politics of nature? Or, thinking with Benjamin, can we imagine a natural politics, as he does natural history? What does this time of crisis demand from our concepts of river, nature and politics?
Join us for a conversation anchored in Naveeda Khan’s recent books, River Life and the Upspring of Nature (2022) and In Quest of a Shared Planet : Negotiating Climate from the Global South (2023).
Participants: Naveeda Khan (JHU Anthropology), Veena Das (JHU Anthropology), Aamir Mufti (JHU English), and Faisal Devji (U. of Oxford History)