Haunted by the event: A response. (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nijhawan, Michael
• Is Part Of: Sikh formations. Volume 16:Number 1/2(2020)
• Page Start: 200
• Page End: 208
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Sikhism -- Periodicals; Sikhs -- Periodicals; 294.6
• DOI: 10.1080/17448727.2018.1545189
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-8727

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper offers a response to contributions by Conerly Casey, Patrick Eisenlohr, Raji S. Soni and Connor VanderBeek in this inaugural theory colloquium in Sikh Formations . By drawing on Derrida's philosophy of event and eventfulness and Veena Das' work, I shall rethink some of the critiques and lines of argument emerging from the four contributions gathered here. Couching my response in the contemporary context of migrant precarity and state violence, I offer some further thoughts as to how Precarious Diasporas might be useful to (re)imagine anthropological inquiry in a transnational field and across sites of diasporicity, religiosity and subjectivity.