Now: prefigurative politics through a north Indian lens
Now: prefigurative politics through a north Indian lens
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DOI：
10.1080/03085147.2016.1143725
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发表时间：
2016-02-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Dyson, Jane
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作者：
Jeffrey, Craig;Dyson, Jane
本文关注的是印度北部年轻人的“先兆政治”——体现在当下人对未来的憧憬中。在这样做的过程中，它促进了关于对立政治、暂时性、印度和青年的更广泛的辩论。基于最近在北阿坎德邦（Uttarakhand）和北方邦（Uttar Pradesh）的实地调查，我们强调了在一小部分青年男女中，具有公民意识的日常形式的预言性政治无处不在。我们考察了这种政治的暂时性，它像世界各地最近的其他预示性行动一样，强调在现在采取行动。印度北部的年轻人倾向于将未来视为日常活动的沉淀，而不是地平线上的一个点。通过识别印度国内外年轻人积极参与社会行动的努力，我们也为媒体和一些学术界流传的对年轻人的负面刻板印象提供了一个对比。
This paper focuses on prefigurative politics' - embodying in the present one's vision of the future - among young people in north India. In so doing it contributes to wider debates on oppositional politics, temporality, India and youth. Building on recent fieldwork in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, we highlight the ubiquity of civic-minded everyday forms of prefigurative politics among a subset of young men and young women. We examine the temporality of this politics, which, like other recent prefigurative action across the world, emphasizes acting in the present. Young people in north India tend to view the future not as a point on the horizon but as the precipitate of their daily activities. By identifying the energetic attempts of young people within and beyond India to engage in social action, we also provide a counterpoint to negative stereotypes of youth circulating in the media and some scholarly circles.