“You’re Not Welcome Here”: Studying Difference in the Time of Trump
October 5, 2017
Girish Daswani
Whether you are a Nobel Prize laureate or a white supremacist you can believe that certain people are not welcome in your home. The increasing examples of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and trans-phobia around the world and on university campuses in North America force us to re-think how we imagine and study difference. Is it enough for Anthropology to be about the comparative study of the human condition? What tools does Anthropology provide us with when trying to understand indifference and hate? What is the role of Anthropology today, in the time of Trump?
Bio
Girish Daswani is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough with a graduate appointment at the University of Toronto, St George. He has been with the University of Toronto (UofT) for ten years where he has taught courses on religion, transnationalism, politics and globalization and personhood. Prof. Daswani is the author of “Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost”, which was finalist for the 2016 Canada Prize in Social Sciences. He is also the co-editor, with Prof. Ato Quayson, of “A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies”. His current research focuses on activism in Ghana.
