Something, Everything, Nothing; Or, Cows, Dogs, and Maggots

Davé, Naisargi N.

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“…12. The form of interspecies care I am describing resonates with what Maria Puig de la Bellacasa describes in “Making Time for Soil: Technoscientific Futurity and the Pace of Care” and Naisargi N. Dave (2017) describes in “Something, Everything, Nothing; Or, Cows, Dogs, and Maggots”. De la Bellacasa foregrounds feminist approaches to care that draw “attention to glimpses of alternative, liveable relationalities, and hopefully contributes to other possible worlds in the making” (692).…”

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Ferments and the AIDS virus: interspecies counter-conduct in the history of AIDS

Linds

2019

Med Humanities

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In the first three decades after AIDS started infecting people in the USA and Canada, before, during and after the emergence of anti-retroviral therapies, numerous “alternative and holistic treatments” for AIDS were debated, tested, circulated, written about and taught. This paper, taking a narrow focus, examines documents that reveal how some people with AIDS developed a logic of care predicated on intimate interactions with microscopic lifeforms—the AIDS virus and the bacteria involved in fermentation, in particular. Focusing on the writings of Jon Greenberg and Sandor Katz, two former members of ACT UP/NY, I show that the men did not just dissent from management by biomedical authority but found new authority about how to care for themselves as people with AIDS from their interactions with non-human microscopic life. The practices and writings of both men demonstrate that Foucault’s theory of counter-conduct exists in the history of AIDS as an interspecies process in which microscopic existents lead humans. From Katz and Greenberg, I argue there is an interspecies dimension to counter-conduct that exists as a frame for understanding people who find in non-human life a guide towards unconventional forms of care, revised forms of human behaviour and philosophies for persisting with illness.

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“…“Making Time for Soil: Technoscientific Futurity and the Pace of Care.” Soc Stud Sci Social Studies of Science 45, no. 5 (2015): 691–716; Naisargi N. Dave (2017) “Something, Everything, Nothing; Or, Cows, Dogs, and Maggots.” Social Text 35, no. 1 (130) (March 1, 2017): 37–57.…”

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Ferments and the AIDS virus: interspecies counter-conduct in the history of AIDS

Linds

2019

Med Humanities

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“…In 2016 Golda explained to me that she had become disappointed with activism and how her health and marriage had suffered from her involvement. Naisargi N. Dave's work (2016, 2017) on animal activists in India has had an important influence on my analysis with regard to how cynicism, as located in the inconsistencies that arise from the irresolvable contradictions activists face, can lead to “exhaustion.” It has helped me understand that Golda's experience may not differ too much from that of other activists whose ethical dilemmas have direct effects on their body, including on its capacity to be affected (Dave 2016, 2017). The activist fight—and the contradictions it posed—had taken a lot out of Golda.…”

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“…I thank my colleague Naisargi Dave for pointing me to Sloterdijk's (1995) work on cynicism. Dave's (2016, 2017) work on animal activists in India, and her engagement of cynicism as located in contradictory thinking, proved instrumental in helping me think about the inconsistencies that arise from a liberal politics and how it can lead to an activist exhaustion.…”

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On Cynicism: Activist and Artistic Responses to Corruption in Ghana

Daswani

2020

Cult. Anthropol.

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By considering how Ghanaian activists and artists engage with different forms of cynicism in their attempts to fight corruption, this article reflects on two kinds of activist orientations: one located in future‐oriented projects of political change, and another embracing contradiction by poking fun at the duplicity of politics. I argue that while the cynicism of other middle‐class Ghanaians served as an important catalyst for activist action, it is important to look at cynicism and its politics from the perspective of Ghanaians who become disappointed and skeptical about change and artists who are concerned with embracing contradictions and making fun of the present through satire. By attending to the social actions and experiences that characterize these two groups, I ask what it means to take cynicism, and activism against and despite cynicism, as one's ethnographic object.

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“…Exhaustion becomes a mechanism for communication and an ontological state for those who participate in its name. It is through such embodied experiences that people live the law as an ethical and social project (Dave 2017). Success at the Court can, once again, both look and feel like dragging oneself “back to the law.”…”

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Law, politics, and efficacy at the European Court of Human Rights

Greenberg

2020

American Ethnologist

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Why do people experience legal institutions as effective sites for political and social transformation? How do people translate political and ethical goals into modalities of law? In Europe many have responded to a widespread sense of political crisis by turning to legal remedies and judicial institutions. One of these institutions, the European Court of Human Rights, provides shared frameworks for combating people's sense of impasse or decline. People experience the Court as a successful rights institution because it shapes and generates shared semiotic forms and repertoires. Through these, lawyers, judges, and rights advocates construct and recognize their actions as efficacious. Yet the experience of efficacy is an unequally shared resource. For some, legal frameworks are the condition of possibility for ethical and professional engagement. But for others, engaging with the law produces frustration and exclusion. Moreover, engaging in judicialized politics shapes some harms as legally legible and actionable, while it shapes others as tragedies beyond reach. [law, politics, liberalism, judicialization of politics, justice, human rights, efficacy, metapragmatics, Europe]

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Something, Everything, Nothing; Or, Cows, Dogs, and Maggots

Cited by 40 publications

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Ferments and the AIDS virus: interspecies counter-conduct in the history of AIDS

Ferments and the AIDS virus: interspecies counter-conduct in the history of AIDS

On Cynicism: Activist and Artistic Responses to Corruption in Ghana

Law, politics, and efficacy at the European Court of Human Rights

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