Domesticating the “New Terrorism”: The Case of the Maoist Insurgency in India
Domesticating the “New Terrorism”: The Case of the Maoist Insurgency in India
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驯化“新恐怖主义”：印度毛派叛乱案例
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2014
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P. Malreddy
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作者：
P. Malreddy
在这篇文章中，我认为印度政府对毛派叛乱的回应在意识形态上受到了西方列强，特别是美国培育的“新恐怖主义”话语的影响。9·11事件之后，印度政府将伊斯兰恐怖主义比作东西方“文明冲突”的代名词，将受毛派武装叛乱影响的地区划为“红色走廊”，将叛乱视为“对国家内部安全的最大威胁”。通过国家支持的宣传对毛派叛乱进行系统性的妖魔化、刑事化和非政治化，进一步加剧了国内对红色走廊的“不爱国”、“不民主”、“污染”甚至“病态地带”的指责。在试图揭露美国领导的“反恐战争”和印度“与毛派的战争”之间隐含的勾结和共谋，我引用了哈米德·达巴希的“后东方主义”观点，乔治·阿甘本的“赤裸裸的生活”的概念，以及阿奇勒·姆本贝创造的“死亡政治”。
Abstract In this essay, I argue that the Indian state’s response to the Maoist insurgency has been ideologically shaped by the “new terrorism” discourse cultivated by Western powers, particularly by the United States. Following the post-9/11 othering of Islamic terrorism as a trope of a “civilizational clash” between East and West, the Indian state has strategically demarcated the regions affected by the Maoist armed insurgency as the “Red Corridor,” conceiving the insurgency as “the single biggest threat to the internal security of the nation.” The domestic othering of the Red Corridor as an “unpatriotic,” “undemocratic,” “contaminated,” or even a “diseased zone” is further exacerbated by the systemic demonization, criminalization, and depoliticization of the Maoist insurgency through state-sponsored propaganda. In the attempt to uncover the implied collusion and complicity between the U.S.-led “war on terror” and India’s “war with the Maoists,” I draw on Hamid Dabashi’s view of “post-Orientalism,” Giorgio Agamben’s notion of “bare life,” and Achille Mbembe’s coinage of “necropolitics.”