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Co-hosting event of GAS「CareFul Chit-Chat & Celebration!: Online Book Launch, Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India」開催のお知らせ

この度、GAS活動の一環として2026年11月25日（水）にオンライン形式による下記のイベントを共催することになりました。下記のフォームよりZoomリンクの事前登録をお願いいたします。

日時：2026年11月25日（水）19:00-20:30 (JST)

会場：Online (Zoom)

題目：CareFul Chit-Chat & Celebration!: Dr. Satya Shikha Chakraborty’s Online Book Launch, Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India(Cambridge University Press, 2025)

講演者： Dr. Satya Shikha Chakraborty, Associate Professor, The College of New Jersey

討論者：Dr. Yoko Taguchi, Associate Professor, Hiroshima University

事前登録：https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/PSieydJDRcG9wOES8_EIZQ#/registration

使用言語：English

概要：
Colonial Caregivers offers a compelling cultural and social history of ayahs (nannies/maids), by exploring domestic intimacy and exploitation in colonial South Asia. Working for British imperial families from the mid-1700s to the mid-1900s, South Asian ayahs, as Chakraborty shows, not only provided domestic labor, but also provided important moral labor for the British Empire. The desexualized racialized ayah archetype upheld British imperial whiteness and sexual purity, and later Indian elite 'upper' caste domestic modernity. Chakraborty argues that the pervasive cultural sentimentalization of the ayah morally legitimized British colonialism, while obscuring the vulnerabilities of caregivers in real-life. Using an archive of petitions and letters from ayahs, fairytales they told to British children, court cases, and vernacular sources, Chakraborty foregrounds the precarious lives, voices, and perspectives of these women. By placing care labor at the center of colonial history, the book decolonizes the history of South Asia and the British Empire.

See more details: https://www.tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/18097/
In Japanese: https://www.tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/18092/

Flyer design: Mateus R Oliveira


主催：UTokyo Tokyo College Gender, Sexuality & Identity Collaborative Group (GS&I), Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS), Global Asian Studies (GAS), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Center for South Asian Studies

お問い合わせ：Dr. Eri KITADA (eri-kitada@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

 

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登録種別：研究会関連
登録日時：WedOct2111:23:562026
登録者　：GAS事務局・神林
掲載期間：20261022 - 20261125
当日期間：20261125 - 20261125