The resistance strikes back: women's protest strategies against backlash in India
The resistance strikes back: women's protest strategies against backlash in India
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抵抗运动的反击：印度妇女针对强烈抵制的抗议策略
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10.1080/13552074.2021.1981698
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2021
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Chopra D
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沙欣巴格（Shaheen Bagh）遗址是印度独立以来历时最长的代际静坐抗议活动的缩影。在这些抗议活动中，特别新颖的是首次参加抗议的穆斯林妇女的存在和领导。沙欣·巴格（Shaheen Bagh）也激发了全国各地的其他静坐活动，包括德里的几次静坐。然而，除了沙欣·巴格，没有哪个地方的斗争持续得如此之久，有如此多的人参与了一段持续而重要的时间。本文将探讨Shaheen Bagh的这些妇女是谁，以及她们如何以及为什么聚集在一起抗议印度公民权利的拟议变化。它将利用采访、实地观察和出版材料，描绘沙欣巴格妇女在回应我所说的“周期性”政府反弹时所使用的新抗议形式和策略。本文将强调Shaheen Bagh妇女所采用的策略的有机演变性质，并强调如何使用实体、数字和形象空间成为妇女组织抗议活动的标志。鉴于持续的国家不容忍和公民社会空间的缩小，本文最后反思了未来女权主义抵抗和组织可以从这一分析中吸取的教训，以便能够反击这种反弹。
The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these protests was the presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. Shaheen Bagh also inspired other sit-ins across the country, including several across Delhi. Yet, nowhere except Shaheen Bagh did the struggle last as long, with the participation of as many over a continuous and significant period of time. This article will explore who these women of Shaheen Bagh were, and how and why they came together to protest a proposed change in India’s citizenship rights. It will draw on interviews, field observations, and published material, to delineate the new forms of protest and strategies used by the women in Shaheen Bagh in response to what I term ‘cyclical’ backlash by the state. The article will underscore the organically evolving nature of the strategies that women in Shaheen Bagh adopted, and highlight how the use of physical, digital, and figurative space became the hallmark of women’s organising in this protest. In light of continuing state intolerance and shrinking space for civil society, this article concludes with reflections on lessons that future feminist resistance and organising can draw from this analysis, to be able to strike back against this backlash.