Domestic Affairs

IF 1.2 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES Social Text Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1353/book.3341
Sahana Ghosh
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How do protests and security regimes engage each other on the question of difference? This question frames this essay's ethnographic portrayal of the expression of dissent and political claims in a borderland site of national security and the Indian security state's management of such dissent to reinforce its legitimacy as a liberal democracy. Border residents in eastern India, predominantly Muslim or depressed caste, are minority citizens. By closely reading the terms through which they articulate their claims and humiliations and how they are rendered suspect, subordinated, and othered from fulsome democratic rights and citizenship, this essay offers a portrait of the slow violence of affective rule in a place of “no conflict.” Turning away from spectacular instances of militarism and state violence, this essay illuminates the affective force of militarization whose goal is to disable critique and segment minority citizens into subordinated inclusion. It asks how collective political action might be heard and endure in such constrained conditions. This specific locus is instructive for the logic of contradistinction as a mode of security rule more widely. It demonstrates that the intersection of gender and religious identity is not a “dimension” of contemporary national security regimes but must be seen as foundational to their constitution and legitimacy.
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抗议活动和安全制度如何在差异问题上相互配合?这个问题构成了本文对国家安全边境地区异见和政治主张表达的民族志描述,以及印度安全国家对这种异见的管理,以加强其作为自由民主国家的合法性。印度东部的边境居民,主要是穆斯林或低种姓,是少数民族公民。通过仔细阅读他们表达自己的主张和羞辱的术语,以及他们是如何被怀疑、服从和远离令人满意的民主权利和公民身份的,本文描绘了在一个“没有冲突”的地方,情感统治的缓慢暴力,本文阐明了军事化的情感力量,其目的是使批判失效,并将少数民族公民划分为从属包容。它询问集体政治行动如何在如此有限的条件下被听到并持续下去。这一特定的轨迹对作为一种更广泛的安全规则模式的区分逻辑具有指导意义。它表明,性别和宗教身份的交叉并不是当代国家安全制度的“维度”,而是必须被视为其宪法和合法性的基础。
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