Svati Shah
Position
Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Affiliation
- s.shah@uib.no
- Phone number
- S.SHAH@UIB.NO
- Visitor address
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Parkveien 9
5007 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7805NO-5020 BergenNorway
Svati Shah
Position
Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Affiliation
Research
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.
Outreach
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