{"id":270,"date":"2008-04-01T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&p=270"},"modified":"2011-05-24T16:30:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T20:30:17","slug":"the-biopolitics-of-caste","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/the-biopolitics-of-caste\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biopolitics of Caste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/anu-rao1.jpg\" alt=\"Anu Rao\" title=\"anu-rao\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/anu-rao1.webp 590w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/anu-rao1-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/anu-rao1-300x199.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anupama Rao, Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Barnard, will speak about what she terms the &#8220;violence of recognition&#8221; through the reading of a recent &#8220;caste atrocity&#8221; that occurred in 2006, which involved the sexual brutalization and murder of a Dalit family in western India. Her lecture will address the symbology of caste violence through an engagement with (and extension of) the concept of biopolitics associated with the work of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anupama Rao, Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Barnard, will speak about what she terms the &#8220;violence of recognition&#8221; through the reading of a recent &#8220;caste atrocity&#8221; that occurred in 2006, which involved the sexual brutalization and murder of a Dalit family in western India. Her lecture will address the symbology of caste violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":271,"template":"","tags":[17,36,39,15,28],"class_list":["post-270","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-class","tag-history","tag-politics","tag-sexuality","tag-violence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}