FASS Brown Bag Seminar by Dr Bhoomika Joshi | Attachments to Hurt
Dear all,
You are cordially invited to the fifth session of the FASS Brown Bag Seminar Series in Semester 2 of AY25/26. Dr Bhoomika Joshi (NUS South Asian Studies) will be presenting a talk titled "Attachments to Hurt."
Date: 10 Apr, 12-1pm
Venue: Zoom and in-person (FASS Research Division Seminar Room AS7 06-42)
Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.
Attachments to Hurt
This presentation will focus on the key and overarching argument of my book manuscript Attachments to Hurt (work in progress). More often than not, hurt is studied as a constitutive expression of the historically oppressed and marginalized. Based on over a decade of research, the book centres on the contradictions of hurt as a social fact when it becomes constitutive of the politics of the traditionally privileged (caste) elite and its social, economic, political, and cultural life in India. In the landscape of growing concerns about majoritarianism across the world, Attachments to Hurt offers and invites ideas on what it is about the constitution of hurt that makes it available to the reification of whiteness, blasphemy, religious revivalism, and caste dominance.
Bhoomika Joshi is Assistant Professor of Contemporary South Asia at NUS. She is an anthropologist with research and teaching interests in caste, gender, mobility and development. Her work has been published in the American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, Economic and Political Weekly and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. She is a bilingual writer and translator, and author of a Hindi novella, Lachchhi: The Newness of Nostalgia (Vani Publications 2020).