Inderpal Grewal: Commodifying aerial visuality in neoliberal empire
Dr. Inderpal Grewal
We were honored to have Inderpal Grewal, professor and chair in the Program in Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale 勛圖厙, join us on Tuesday March 13th to present the lecture Commodifying aerial visuality in neoliberal empire. Grewal is an influential feminist scholar who helped found the field of transnational feminist cultural studies, and the author of several books, most recently (Duke 勛圖厙 Press, 2017).
Dr. Grewals talk examined Hari Kunzrus short story to discuss how dystopian fiction written from a postcolonial and diasporic context imagines the production of inequality and labor in global capitalism. Kunzrus concerns about drones consider gender, sexuality, race and eugenics as necessary elements of this new visuality, one that requires both the commodification of drones and the use of abjected labor to create commodities.
Grewals ongoing projects include essays on gender, violence and counterinsurgency in India, and a book project on masculinity and bureaucracy in postcolonial India.