Beastly Identification: conservationist legal regimes and documents in the government of big cats in India
Nayanika Mathur is an Anthropologist of South Asia with wide-ranging research and teaching interests in the anthropology of politics, development, environment, law, human-animal studies, and research methods. She is currently engaged in a project centered upon human-big cat conflict in South Asia, tentatively entitled Crooked Cats: Human-Big Cat Entanglements in the Anthropocene. Crooked Cats works through fieldwork conducted with victims of attacks by big cats, hunters, conservationists, wildlife biologists, animal rights activists, and photographers as well as archival work in India. It describes how humans share space with big cats that might – but also might not – be predatory.
Date:
2 November 2020, 16:30
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Common Room Area
Speaker:
Dr Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Organiser:
Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
admin@csls.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Part of:
Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Katie Hayward
