Utopia’s Settler Colonialism Problem
Jessica Namakkal interrogates the settler colonial impulses behind 20th-century utopias like Auroville, India.
Jessica Namakkal is the author of Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India (Columbia University Press, 2021). She teaches in the Program in International Comparative Studies, History, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University.
Jessica Namakkal interrogates the settler colonial impulses behind 20th-century utopias like Auroville, India.