Mapping Hindutva’s coordinates: global formations of nationalist space

IF 0.7 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-03-04 DOI:10.1080/13504630.2023.2208069
Sitara Thobani
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ABSTRACT This paper studies the religious and spatial politics of contemporary Hindu nationalism through an examination of the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, India, and the Swaminarayan Mandir in Neasden, UK. Whereas the Neasden Temple is celebrated as a diasporic accomplishment that testifies to British multiculturalism, the Ayodhya temple has been mired by controversy and marred in violence that has spanned decades. Despite these differences, both temples have acquired their specific symbolic, visual and material salience through a global circulation of ideas, goods, peoples and aesthetics. I trace this circulation to show how these two temples serve to concretize and embody a specific historical narrative of ‘the Hindu nation’ through their shared architectural forms, as well as through the shared processes of their material construction. My argument is that the symbolic, visual and material relationships these temples instantiate across multiple ‘national’ locations can be read as territorializing mythic formations of ‘the Hindu nation’ as a global entity. The transnational crossings that secure the local specificities entailed in the construction of these temples demonstrate how contemporary formations of ‘globality’ are produced by, and in turn become the conditions of possibility for, the transformation of contemporary Hindu nationalism into a global phenomenon.
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绘制印度教的坐标:民族主义空间的全球形成
摘要本文通过考察印度阿约提亚的拉姆神庙和英国尼斯登的斯瓦米纳拉扬曼迪尔神庙的建造,研究了当代印度教民族主义的宗教和空间政治,阿约提亚神庙陷入了争议的泥潭,并在长达数十年的暴力事件中受损。尽管存在这些差异,但通过思想、商品、民族和美学的全球流通,这两座寺庙都获得了特定的象征性、视觉性和物质性。我追踪这一循环,以展示这两座寺庙是如何通过其共同的建筑形式以及共同的材料建造过程来具体化和体现“印度教民族”的特定历史叙事的。我的论点是,这些寺庙在多个“国家”地点所体现的象征性、视觉性和物质性关系可以被解读为“印度教国家”作为一个全球实体的领土神话形成。在这些寺庙的建设中,跨国穿越确保了当地的特殊性,这表明当代“全球性”的形成是如何由当代印度教民族主义转变为全球现象产生的,并反过来成为这种转变的可能条件。
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Social Identities
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期刊介绍: Recent years have witnessed considerable worldwide changes concerning social identities such as race, nation and ethnicity, as well as the emergence of new forms of racism and nationalism as discriminatory exclusions. Social Identities aims to furnish an interdisciplinary and international focal point for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities. The journal is especially concerned to address these issues in the context of the transforming political economies and cultures of postmodern and postcolonial conditions. Social Identities is intended as a forum for contesting ideas and debates concerning the formations of, and transformations in, socially significant identities, their attendant forms of material exclusion and power.
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