[Sci-tech-public] Anila Daulatzai - 4pm Tuesday March 8 "Gesture, Gender, and Ethical Practice in Kabul, Afghanistan"

Amberly Steward asteward at MIT.EDU
Mon Feb 28 10:22:47 EST 2011


Please join us.

 

 

ANILA DAULATZAI 

Tuesday, March 8

4pm

MIT, 16-220 

 

 

Gesture, Gender, and Ethical Practice in Kabul, Afghanistan

 

 

This paper sketches 'gender' - the word and the concept - as it travels in
Afghanistan's capital Kabul as an anthropological object of investigation.
The larger emphasis in this paper, however, lies in the attempt to shift the
ways an investigation of gender in Afghanistan may be conducted - from what
I call the 'thing-ness' of gender as it manifests itself discursively in
Kabul, to the ways gendered subjectivity gets constituted and re-constituted
through affects and embodied practice in the everyday.

 

 

 

 

 

Anila Daulatzai has conducted research in Afghanistan and Pakistan since
1995. She worked on reproductive health issues among Afghan refugees and
internally displaced persons in camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan and holds
Masters degrees in Public Health and Islamic Studies from the University of
California, Los Angeles. She is currently a doctoral candidate in
Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University where she is completing her
dissertation based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork on
widowhood and care in Kabul, Afghanistan.

 

 

Amberly Steward
Senior Administrative Assistant
Anthropology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Bldg. 16-267
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p) 617.253.3065
f) 617.253.5363 

 

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