Dr. Inderpal Grewal
We were honored to have Inderpal Grewal, professor and chair in the Program in Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, join us on Tuesday March 13th to present the lecture 鈥淐ommodifying aerial visuality in neoliberal empire.鈥� 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 University Press, 2017).
Dr. Grewal鈥檚 talk examined Hari Kunzru鈥檚 short story 鈥溾�� to discuss how dystopian fiction written from a postcolonial and diasporic context imagines the production of inequality and labor in global capitalism. Kunzru鈥檚 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.
Grewal鈥檚 ongoing projects include essays on gender, violence and counterinsurgency in India, and a book project on masculinity and bureaucracy in postcolonial India.