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Gabika Bockaj I have three intersecting areas of theoretical interest. The first may be described as the anthropology of animation, including the study of animation as an artistic form and of animals and animality as part of human narrative ecologies. The second is an interest in comic and comedic elements in everyday life, with an interest in issues of vitality and mechanical elements in popular humor. The third is an interest in the transnational movements of the 1950’s and sixties, in which political and mechanical progress were linked up in the struggles of decolonization in the emerging socialist world. My area interests are in Eastern Europe in India. To each of these topics I hope to bring a longstanding concern with problems of performativity, language and thought, and cultural images of all three. |
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