CSAS Edinburgh

The times are Malaysia times, so somewhat inhospitable, but a recording will be available. For those interested please contact the organiser Prof Crispin Bates

You are warmly invited to a seminar in the Spring 2020 Semester by the Centre for South Asian Studies at Edinburgh University.


Stigma as strategy: NGOs in Pakistan’s HIV prevention

Speakers: Ayaz Qureshi (UoE)

Date: Thursday 13th February 2020

Venue: Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, CMB

Time: 1600 -1730


Abstract:

NGOs often portray drug users and s*x workers as quasi-legal persons locked in a kind of policeman-criminal relationship with the state, who therefore need NGOs to mediate this relationship. I argue in this paper that by advancing such portrayals, NGOs in the HIV prevention were capitalising upon the presumed ‘cultural difference’ (Elyachar 2010) of the so-called ‘risk groups’ of HIV. Rather than challenging oppressive legal apparatus and societal norms, the role of ‘cultural brokers’ for these NGOs worked for their own accumulation, even if, for this brokerage to work for them, they had to accentuate the cultural difference and thus further the stigma and ‘othering’. Portrayals of self-incriminating drug users and s*x workers do not take into account a fuller range of identity politics and dynamics of stigma in an unstable donor-dominated landscape. Set in the context of HIV/AIDS response in Pakistan, the ethnography captures some of the fluidity with which NGOs and individuals embodied often stigmatising stereotypes as strategies to get access to funds, power and influence with donors and with the government.

Further details here: http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/events/seminar_series/2019_2020/stigma_as_strategy_ngos_in_pakistans_hiv_prevention

ALL ARE WELCOME.



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You are warmly invited to a seminar in the Autumn 2019 Semester by the Centre for South Asian Studies at Edinburgh University.


Translation and the Missionary Archie: multilingual texts and linguistic memory

Speakers: Hephzibah Israel UoE

Date: Thursday 17th October 2019

Venue: Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, CMB (previously called 6th floor staff room)

Time: 1600 -1730

Abstract
My talk draws on the experience of working with the ‘missionary archive’ on a recent research project focusing on accounts of conversion from nineteenth-century South Asia. While the project team found more than the number of autobiographical accounts anticipated, with written evidence on several documents that they were ‘true’ translations, we were unable to trace both language versions in each case. This meant developing a new set of questions on translation and its relationship with the archive. How do we interpret what we term “translation traces” in bilingual texts, translated extracts, fragments, and evidence of repeated relay translations? Why were some translation pairs preserved and not others? If we think of the archive as a ‘contact zone’ where languages, texts and memory intersect through translation, we can examine the effects that the ‘unarchiving’ of some languages and narratives have on our re-constructions of the past. As I show, asking the translation question also uncovers unexpected language trajectories along which some narratives travelled in colonial India.

Further detail here: http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/events/seminar_series/2019_2020/translation_and_the_missionary_archive_multilingual_texts_and_linguistic_memory

ALL ARE WELCOME.


The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Centre for South Asian Studies: Events : Translation and the Missionary Archive: multilingual texts and linguistic memory Translation and the Missionary Archive: multilingual texts and linguistic memory Title Translation and the Missionary Archive: multilingual texts and linguistic memory Speaker(s) Speaker: Hephzibah Israel # UoE Hosted by Introduced by Date and Time 17th Oct 2019 16:00 - 17th Oct 2019 17:30 Location....