This issue opens with the special section “Other Than Human: Rethinking Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia,” edited by Rajbir Singh Judge and Parama Roy, which brings back to the fore a conversation on human–nonhuman interaction that was previously staged in volume 35, number 2 (2015) titled “Nonhuman Empires.” In the face of nearly certain climate catastrophe, there remains an urgent need to think about the basic tenets for political and social organizations—say, secularism, democracy—and reflect on the position of inanimate as well as nonhuman beings subjected to violences and upheavals. The section's broad-ranging essays underscore the need for solidarities and imaginations that are not limited to “legal,” “human” subjects.
We then turn to a Kitabkhana on Serena Owusua Dankwa's recent ethnography Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana. Steven Pierce, Aminata Cécile Mbaye, Rachel Spronk, and Thomas Hendriks explore Dankwa's provocative study of a group that...
