Political and affective ecologies of human–elephant relations: A gendered perspective.

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Co-Authored with Sayan Banerjee. Composing Worlds with Elephants: Interdisciplinary Dialogues (Eds. Láine N, Rahmat K and Kiel P). IRD Editions, Montpellier, France, pp. 29-47.
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The behavioural relations between humans and wild Asian elephants at the forest-farmland interfaces are both political and affective, and these stem from the spatio-temporal ordering of land and livelihoods, which, in turn, emanate from power negotiations between different actors, both human and nonhuman. We study how the embodied encounters between humans and wild elephants in northeastern India, manifest through the interpersonal flow of affects, shape the political decisions related to their coexistence and shared lifeworlds, and propose gender as an entry point to understand these connections closely, at least from the human perspective.

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