Anneeth Kaur Hundle
Biographic Data
| ID | 128445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anneeth Kaur Hundle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anneeth Kaur |
| FAMILY NAME | Hundle |
| SIGNATURE | HUNDLE A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
As a woman
Elusive justice, haunting inheritances
Introduction
After the Expulsion
What are the stakes of race and caste analysis in Uganda and East Africa? This theoretical and methodological essay argues that the dominant scholarly discussion on postcolonial racial conflict and the 1972 Asian expulsion in Uganda has been articulated through the frames of “expulsion exceptionalism” and colonial and economic determinism. Scholars focus primarily on race and class analysis and on the study of racial and native rule in postcoloni…
Everyday Discrimination and Its Predictors in the Masala Study
Fifty years on
This commentary examines the contemporary relevance of Uganda’s 1972 Asian expulsion. It describes and argues against “expulsion exceptionalism,” or the ways that expulsion is understood as a singular event and through discourses of African-Asian racial estrangement, the racial victimization of Asians, the excesses of military dictator Idi Amin, and illiberal framings of Uganda, Africa and African governance. Rather, the expulsion is a global cri…
Insecurities of Expulsion
This article examines citizenship formations and political practices in relation to racialized and gendered postcolonial insecurities for the “Asian community” in contemporary Uganda. After disaggregating the notion of Asian community, it examines (1) how formalistic, liberal, and legal-juridical conceptions of citizenship and political practice are ineffective analytics in the context of Africanization efforts and racialized expulsion in Uganda;…
What is the Transnational in Transnational Feminist Research
The focus on the transnational in feminist research aims to decentre Western epistemologies, shaking the foundation of the sometimes taken-for-granted framework of Western—and specifically UK, US or European-focused—feminist research in the English language; it aims to disrupt the embedded hegemonies of nationalist ideologies, in all their heteropatriarchal connotations. The transnational as a qualifier for feminist research methods and methodolo…
Postcolonial Patriarchal Nativism, Domestic Violence and Transnational Feminist Research in Contemporary Uganda
This article examines the development of a multidimensional, transnational feminist research approach from and within Uganda in relation to a high-profile case of domestic violence and femicide of a middle-class, upper-caste Indian migrant woman in Kampala in 1998. It explores indigenous Ugandan public and Ugandan Asian/Indian community interpretations and the dynamics of cross-racial feminist mobilisation and protest that emerged in response to …
Decolonizing Diversity
Through the theoretical interrogation of both “diversity” and “decolonization” as key concepts in contemporary university life, this essay (1) offers a vision for a transnational “decolonizing diversity” approach that serves as public and political pedagogy within and beyond the university, and (2) provides intellectual and methodological interventions in contemporary organizational manifestations of racialized minority difference — namely, (neo)…
S Uganda
This paper explores the ongoing presence of the 1972 expulsion of the racialized Asian population by former president Idi Amin in contemporary Uganda. The expulsion was a "critical event" and thus the paper uses an "anthropology of the event" approach to focus on the architecture of silence and historical consciousness of the event in urban Kampala. The four arenas of focus are: (1) official state narratives; (2) community mobilization and public…
Sikh diasporic feminisms
On 14th May 2017, Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa and myself helped to organize a small group of US and UK-based Sikh intellectuals and scholars to meet at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles to discus
Disrupting Nativism (Part Two)
Disrupting Nativism (Part One)
Unsettling India
Reviewed by: Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality by Purnima Mankekar Anneeth Kaur Hundle Purnima Mankekar, Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 301 pp. Purnima Mankekar’s monograph, Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality, is a dazzling example of the melding of ethnography and theory at its best. It is replete with detailed ethnographic vignettes, rich t…
Exceptions to the expulsion
This paper explores the precarious social worlds of Indians, or Ugandan Asians, who continued to live in Uganda after the 1972 expulsion of the Asian population; men and women who were bureaucratic “exceptions” to the larger out flux of the Indian population. They responded to their racialization and ambivalent inclusion in Amin's Uganda with complex forms of collaboration, complicity, and social practices geared towards shoring up security. Sign…
After Wisconsin
At home and in my university town this summer, I was immediately struck by the way that media responses to the shootings of Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin underscored imperial dynamics of minoritization in the USA. Interviewed by journalists outside the gurudwara on August 6th, Sikh congregants seemed unable to define, guide, or control the anthropological discourse on Sikhs and Sikhi that began to emerge in the national public sphere. Institution…
On Affirmative Action and Anthropology
Exceptions to the expulsion
This paper explores the precarious social worlds of Indians, or Ugandan Asians, who continued to live in Uganda after the 1972 expulsion of the Asian population; men and women who were bureaucratic “exceptions” to the larger out flux of the Indian population. They responded to their racialization and ambivalent inclusion in Amin's Uganda with complex forms of collaboration, complicity, and social practices geared towards shoring up security. Sign…
S Uganda
This paper explores the ongoing presence of the 1972 expulsion of the racialized Asian population by former president Idi Amin in contemporary Uganda. The expulsion was a "critical event" and thus the paper uses an "anthropology of the event" approach to focus on the architecture of silence and historical consciousness of the event in urban Kampala. The four arenas of focus are: (1) official state narratives; (2) community mobilization and public…
What is the Transnational in Transnational Feminist Research
The focus on the transnational in feminist research aims to decentre Western epistemologies, shaking the foundation of the sometimes taken-for-granted framework of Western—and specifically UK, US or European-focused—feminist research in the English language; it aims to disrupt the embedded hegemonies of nationalist ideologies, in all their heteropatriarchal connotations. The transnational as a qualifier for feminist research methods and methodolo…
After Wisconsin
At home and in my university town this summer, I was immediately struck by the way that media responses to the shootings of Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin underscored imperial dynamics of minoritization in the USA. Interviewed by journalists outside the gurudwara on August 6th, Sikh congregants seemed unable to define, guide, or control the anthropological discourse on Sikhs and Sikhi that began to emerge in the national public sphere. Institution…
Fifty years on
This commentary examines the contemporary relevance of Uganda’s 1972 Asian expulsion. It describes and argues against “expulsion exceptionalism,” or the ways that expulsion is understood as a singular event and through discourses of African-Asian racial estrangement, the racial victimization of Asians, the excesses of military dictator Idi Amin, and illiberal framings of Uganda, Africa and African governance. Rather, the expulsion is a global cri…
Decolonizing Diversity
Through the theoretical interrogation of both “diversity” and “decolonization” as key concepts in contemporary university life, this essay (1) offers a vision for a transnational “decolonizing diversity” approach that serves as public and political pedagogy within and beyond the university, and (2) provides intellectual and methodological interventions in contemporary organizational manifestations of racialized minority difference — namely, (neo)…
Sikh diasporic feminisms
On 14th May 2017, Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa and myself helped to organize a small group of US and UK-based Sikh intellectuals and scholars to meet at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles to discus
Postcolonial Patriarchal Nativism, Domestic Violence and Transnational Feminist Research in Contemporary Uganda
This article examines the development of a multidimensional, transnational feminist research approach from and within Uganda in relation to a high-profile case of domestic violence and femicide of a middle-class, upper-caste Indian migrant woman in Kampala in 1998. It explores indigenous Ugandan public and Ugandan Asian/Indian community interpretations and the dynamics of cross-racial feminist mobilisation and protest that emerged in response to …
Insecurities of Expulsion
This article examines citizenship formations and political practices in relation to racialized and gendered postcolonial insecurities for the “Asian community” in contemporary Uganda. After disaggregating the notion of Asian community, it examines (1) how formalistic, liberal, and legal-juridical conceptions of citizenship and political practice are ineffective analytics in the context of Africanization efforts and racialized expulsion in Uganda;…
On Affirmative Action and Anthropology
On Affirmative Action and Anthropology
After Wisconsin
At home and in my university town this summer, I was immediately struck by the way that media responses to the shootings of Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin underscored imperial dynamics of minoritization in the USA. Interviewed by journalists outside the gurudwara on August 6th, Sikh congregants seemed unable to define, guide, or control the anthropological discourse on Sikhs and Sikhi that began to emerge in the national public sphere. Institution…
Exceptions to the expulsion
This paper explores the precarious social worlds of Indians, or Ugandan Asians, who continued to live in Uganda after the 1972 expulsion of the Asian population; men and women who were bureaucratic “exceptions” to the larger out flux of the Indian population. They responded to their racialization and ambivalent inclusion in Amin's Uganda with complex forms of collaboration, complicity, and social practices geared towards shoring up security. Sign…
Unsettling India
Reviewed by: Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality by Purnima Mankekar Anneeth Kaur Hundle Purnima Mankekar, Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 301 pp. Purnima Mankekar’s monograph, Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality, is a dazzling example of the melding of ethnography and theory at its best. It is replete with detailed ethnographic vignettes, rich t…
Sikh diasporic feminisms
On 14th May 2017, Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa and myself helped to organize a small group of US and UK-based Sikh intellectuals and scholars to meet at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles to discus
Disrupting Nativism (Part Two)
Disrupting Nativism (Part One)
S Uganda
This paper explores the ongoing presence of the 1972 expulsion of the racialized Asian population by former president Idi Amin in contemporary Uganda. The expulsion was a "critical event" and thus the paper uses an "anthropology of the event" approach to focus on the architecture of silence and historical consciousness of the event in urban Kampala. The four arenas of focus are: (1) official state narratives; (2) community mobilization and public…
Insecurities of Expulsion
This article examines citizenship formations and political practices in relation to racialized and gendered postcolonial insecurities for the “Asian community” in contemporary Uganda. After disaggregating the notion of Asian community, it examines (1) how formalistic, liberal, and legal-juridical conceptions of citizenship and political practice are ineffective analytics in the context of Africanization efforts and racialized expulsion in Uganda;…
What is the Transnational in Transnational Feminist Research
The focus on the transnational in feminist research aims to decentre Western epistemologies, shaking the foundation of the sometimes taken-for-granted framework of Western—and specifically UK, US or European-focused—feminist research in the English language; it aims to disrupt the embedded hegemonies of nationalist ideologies, in all their heteropatriarchal connotations. The transnational as a qualifier for feminist research methods and methodolo…
Postcolonial Patriarchal Nativism, Domestic Violence and Transnational Feminist Research in Contemporary Uganda
This article examines the development of a multidimensional, transnational feminist research approach from and within Uganda in relation to a high-profile case of domestic violence and femicide of a middle-class, upper-caste Indian migrant woman in Kampala in 1998. It explores indigenous Ugandan public and Ugandan Asian/Indian community interpretations and the dynamics of cross-racial feminist mobilisation and protest that emerged in response to …
Decolonizing Diversity
Through the theoretical interrogation of both “diversity” and “decolonization” as key concepts in contemporary university life, this essay (1) offers a vision for a transnational “decolonizing diversity” approach that serves as public and political pedagogy within and beyond the university, and (2) provides intellectual and methodological interventions in contemporary organizational manifestations of racialized minority difference — namely, (neo)…
Fifty years on
This commentary examines the contemporary relevance of Uganda’s 1972 Asian expulsion. It describes and argues against “expulsion exceptionalism,” or the ways that expulsion is understood as a singular event and through discourses of African-Asian racial estrangement, the racial victimization of Asians, the excesses of military dictator Idi Amin, and illiberal framings of Uganda, Africa and African governance. Rather, the expulsion is a global cri…
Introduction
After the Expulsion
What are the stakes of race and caste analysis in Uganda and East Africa? This theoretical and methodological essay argues that the dominant scholarly discussion on postcolonial racial conflict and the 1972 Asian expulsion in Uganda has been articulated through the frames of “expulsion exceptionalism” and colonial and economic determinism. Scholars focus primarily on race and class analysis and on the study of racial and native rule in postcoloni…
Everyday Discrimination and Its Predictors in the Masala Study
As a woman
Elusive justice, haunting inheritances
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (7 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works)