SIG Event: Gender as Intersections: From the National/ist Heritage of Central Asia to Decolonizing Indigenous Heritage of New Hampshire (USA)

A Scholarly Intersections Talk

Dr. SvetLana Peshkova Dr. SvetLana Peshkova, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Scholar of Islam, and Core Faculty in Women’s and Gender(s) Studies Department, and a Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies Minor at University of New Hampshire.

Dr. SvetLana Peshkova’s talk covers her research journey, including an attempt at decolonizing gendered heritage of Central Asia and Indigenous heritage of NH (USA). Gender-based violence, (geo)politics, and Islam continue to dominate the production of knowledge about Central Asia. While using a gender lens, links historical analyses of imperial and Soviet gendered modernities to contemporary Central Asians’ daily lives and local nationalisms to shed light on often overlooked areas in the literature, such as a systematic screening out of historical and contemporary gender diversity, sex work, queer activism, and the use and abuse of discourse on traditions.

The Departments of Anthropology; Global Middle Eastern Studies Minor; History; Romance, German, Russian Languages & Literature; Queer Studies Minor; and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.