Shah is at work on two long-term book projects. Shah is the author of two award-winning books – Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (University of California Press, 2011) and Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (University of California Press, 2001). His new book, Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes is the first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons, conflicts and movements around the world.

To register, contact Sophie Kofman at Shah’s research examines historical struggles over bodies, space and the exercise of state power from the mid- 19th to the 21st century.His scholarship advances our understanding of comparative race and ethnic studies, LGBTQ studies, and to the history of migration, public health, law, and incarceration. However, the outcomes of judicial decision-making, lean heavily on medical expertise and biopolitical measures in ways that foreclose prisoner rights and consent and dodge the causes of conflict. Legal processes provide an airing of prisoner grievances and public communication of concealed prison struggles. In each instance, defense attorneys and prosecutors debate prisoner protest and prison policy that justifies forcible intervention.

Federal Courts intervene in the treatment of hunger strikers in Guantanamo, California State Prison, and Immigrant Detention. The presentation examines how and when U.S.

Stranger Intimacy by Nayan Shah