Multispecies Ecologies of Migrant Homemaking in the United Arab Emirates

In this Visiting Lecture, Neha Vora explores  “cat walks” and other movements within urban space as stray cat placemaking activities in the UAE’s urban neighborhoods.

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Neha Vora is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Her research and teaching interests include diasporas and migration, citizenship, globalized higher education, gender, liberalism, political economy, and human-nonhuman encounters, primarily in the Arabian Peninsula region. She is the author of Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2013) and Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar (Stanford University Press, 2018).Her current research project approaches Dubai and other UAE cities as sites of entangled precarities.