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Stefan Binder is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich. He studies the ethical and epistemological dimensions of current changes in sex, gender, and sexuality systems in South Asia and Europe. His research project seeks to understand the contested politics of 'newness', 'arrival', and 'generational change' and their impact on the everyday lives of queer and trans people in contexts shaped by complex intersections of inequality and privilege. Prior to joining ISEK, he was part of the DFG priority program 'Ästhetische Eigenzeiten' at the University of Göttingen, where he worked on a postdoctoral project concerning the aesthetic production and manipulation of multiple temporalities within the context of Shi'i mourning rituals and media practices. Binder has published extensively on topics such as secularity, atheism, and religious pluralism, focusing on the sensorial, material, and aesthetic dimensions of lived religion and nonreligion. He received his PhD from Utrecht University for his ethnographic study on atheist activism in Telugu-speaking South India and develops an aesthetic postcolonial approach to the contested politics surrounding the religious-secular binary. Additionally, he has studied Religious Studies, Cultural Anthropology, and Indology at the University of Munich (LMU) and Leiden University.
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