Description: A powerful witnessing, gathering, and tracing of the circulation of letters to inquire into the writing of life in the often destabilizing and troubled waters of the EDI university.
Brief description:
Nisha Nath is an associate professor of Equity Studies, Athabasca University, and is based in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). She locates herself as a settler woman of colour whose family comes from divergent social locations in India. Her work critically engages citizenship, focusing on the intersections of race, security, and white settler colonialism. She collaborates on the Insurgent and Resurgent Knowledges Lab (IRKlab.ca) alongside The Letters co-authors. She is also engaged in a SSHRC-funded research project with Dr. Willow-Samara Allen on the role of discretionary power and white settler colonial socialization in public sector work.
Review Quotes: "The Letters diagnoses and intervenes in the state of institutional life in the university, while also insisting on letters that teach us about labour, care, and collectivity. It is incisive and nourishing. Read it."--Gulzar R. Charania, associate professor, Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa