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SUMMARY:Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene - Professor N
 ayanika Mathur\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Dr. P MR Howell
DESCRIPTION:This talk will focus on the methodological ambitions of my rec
 ently released book - Crooked Cats. Building upon 15 years of research in 
 the Indian Himalaya this book retells the story of big cats that make prey
  of humans through a centring of the climate crisis. There are many theori
 es on why and how a big cat comes to prey on humans\, with the ecological 
 collapse emerging as a central explanatory factor. Yet\, uncertainty over 
 the precise cause of crookedness persists. Crooked Cats explores in vivid 
 detail the many lived complexities that arise from this absence of certain
  knowledge to study both governance regimes for the nonhuman and inter-spe
 cies entanglements. Through creative ethnographic storytelling\, Crooked C
 ats illuminates the Anthropocene in three critical ways: as method\, as a 
 way of reframing human-nonhuman relations on the planet\, and as a politic
 al tool indicating the urgency of academic engagement.
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82075862878?pwd=WmVsWUFJTjNmaW0vd1hLc1B
 xcURUQT09  Meeting ID: 820 7586 2878 Passcode: 066892
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