Editors' Note

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Editorial| December 01 2022 Editors' Note Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 559. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-10148103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Editors' Note. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 December 2022; 42 (3): 559. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-10148103 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Search Advanced Search 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... Issue Section: Editors' Note You do not currently have access to this content.