Canine counterinsurgency in Indian-occupied Kashmir

Bhan, Mona; Bose, Purnima

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“…The high rates of purebred dog abandonment, specifically, indicate that additional factors influence the purchase, and eventually relinquishment of dogs at Indian shelters. In their ethnographic analysis, Bhan and Bose (2020) describe purebred dogs as a symbol of middle- and upper-class Indian identity, with potential roots in colonial messaging that distinguished British authorities and their “pedigree dogs” from Indian subjects and street dogs [ 46 ]. Volsche, Mohan, Gray and Rangawamy (2019) surveyed college students in Bangalore, India, with 89% of the total sample identifying as upper or upper-middle-class [ 47 ].…”

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Interviews with Indian Animal Shelter Staff: Similarities and Differences in Challenges and Resiliency Factors Compared to Western Counterparts

Srinivasa

Mondal

Rentzell

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Animals

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Animal shelters in India are at the forefront of efforts to improve free-ranging dog welfare and tackle animal overpopulation. In terms of cultural and political context, access to resources, and public health challenges, they operate in a very different environment than Western counterparts. Despite these distinctions, current sheltering literature is largely centered around countries such as the United States. The goal of this exploratory study was to examine the experiences of Indian animal shelter staff. Researchers conducted ten semi-structured interviews, in a mix of Hindi and English, with managers, veterinary nurses, and animal caretakers from three shelters. Using thematic analysis, shelter challenges as well as resiliency factors that enable staff to cope with these challenges were identified. Key challenges were inadequate funding, community conflict, and high intake numbers. Resiliency factors included flexibility, duty of care, co-worker relationships, and understanding animal needs. The results of this qualitative study revealed that the experiences of shelter staff are shaped by social, political, and cultural factors and that there is a need for further, context specific research on Indian sheltering rather than only relying on Western perspectives.

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Interviews with Indian Animal Shelter Staff: Similarities and Differences in Challenges and Resiliency Factors Compared to Western Counterparts

Srinivasa

Mondal

Rentzell

et al. 2022

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“…The most active among residents collected money for the vaccination and sterilization of strays and grieved when furry neighbourhood regulars left and never returned. Such attention to the needs of others recognized precarity as a condition shared across various species and life forms (Archambault 2016; Johnson 2019; on dog/human precarity in non‐Western contexts, see Bhan & Bose 2020; Narayanan 2017; Sandoval‐Cervantes 2016).…”

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Embracing precarity across species: Muslim ethics and care for stray dogs in Russia

Rabinovich

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Saint Petersburg between 2015 and 2016, this article puts work on postsocialist precarity in conversation with scholarship on piety and interspecies care in Muslim contexts to explore how Aliya, a low‐income Slavic convert to Islam, responded to social and economic hardships by tending to stray dogs. In doing so, she did not turn away, turn inwards, or turn political in the conventional sense of the word. Instead, she engaged in what I term ‘embracing precarity’, which I define as a response to uncertainty, grounded in Islamic spirituality, ethics, and care. By embracing canine tactility – often in departure from cultural norms concerning stray dogs in Islam and at the risk of deepening her own vulnerability – Aliya embarked on a path towards God with nonhuman others. The emergent relatedness between her and the dogs illustrates how striving for an ethical Muslim life amid uncertainty may open one up to experimentation, improvisation, and becoming with precarious others in a pursuit of a relationship with God and a favourable afterlife.

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“…Drawing on notions of Zionist colonialism, she considers race as a key driver of violence against Palestinians and analyses racialised bodies as 'territories' for conquest. Bhan and Bose (2020) broaden the discourse of occupation into contested human-animal relations in a powerful ethnographic reflection on the role of dogs in the ongoing struggle in Indian-occupied Kashmir. The occupying authorities deploy dogs as the first line of military defence against Kashmiri resistance.…”

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‘Not as single spies’: a review of European Social Anthropology 2020

Martin

2021

Social Anthropology

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This review article surveys all of the articles published in the major Anglophone European social anthropology journals in 2020. Taking a perspective from Joel Robbins' theorising of 'the anthropology of the good' as a critique of the primacy of 'dark anthropology', it highlights the rich range of ethnography and analysis recently produced. Focusing on the continuing interest in ontology, environment, relations and the problems inherent in anthropological comparison, the review article identifies how -during the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic -the discipline has continued to respond with vigour and resilience. An ongoing resurgence of the anthropology of religion is noted, as is the emergence of powerful emic exploration of such global phenomena as care, debt and corporate capitalism. The review article concludes with a reflection on the ideological and epistemological challenges social anthropology continues to face, both in the academy and more widely.

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Canine counterinsurgency in Indian-occupied Kashmir

Cited by 15 publications

References 21 publications

Interviews with Indian Animal Shelter Staff: Similarities and Differences in Challenges and Resiliency Factors Compared to Western Counterparts

Interviews with Indian Animal Shelter Staff: Similarities and Differences in Challenges and Resiliency Factors Compared to Western Counterparts

Embracing precarity across species: Muslim ethics and care for stray dogs in Russia

‘Not as single spies’: a review of European Social Anthropology 2020

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