The Shaheen Bagh Protests (15 December 2019 - 24 March 2020): Coloniality, Epistemic Resistance, and Decoloniality in Present-day BJP-led India

沙欣巴格抗议（2019年12月15日至2020年3月24日）：当今印度人民党领导的印度的殖民性、认知抵抗和非殖民性

• 批准号: 2627664
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2627664
• 关键词: Shaheen; Bagh; Protests; 15; December

This project uses the concept of coloniality (Quijano 2007) to question India's credentials of existing independently of colonialism. Through exploring the recent Shaheen Bagh protests against anti-Muslim citizenship laws, I will investigate the epistemic (knowledge-based) aspects of this resistance to understand broader anti-Muslim injustices in present-day Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led India. The outcomes of this approach will be nuanced understandings about both culpability for coloniality in territorially post-colonial states like India, and present-day resistance against this. Shaheen Bagh began with Muslim women, many of whom were first-time protestors, occupying public spaces in Delhi to protest the BJP's anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act. Protestors perceived the act as the culmination of anti-Muslim injustices which have proliferated since the BJP's 2014 election victory: lynchings, 'freeing' Muslim women from Islamic divorce practices without consulting them, siding with destroyers of a holy Islamic site, and ever-increasing militarisation of Muslim-majority Kashmir. The protests were forced to end on their 101st day by Covid-19 restrictions, accompanied by the government's destruction of the protest site's murals and artworks. Hence, this project offers a timely contribution for documenting the epistemic significance of Shaheen Bagh. Whilst scholarship (Anand 2011) understands the BJP's epistemic commitment to Hindutva ('Hinduness') as Hindu nationalism, the dynamics of a BJP-led 'post-colonial' state often remain unquestioned. I will address this by exploring Hindutva with coloniality, arguing that despite the end of formal British rule in India in1947, the oppressive gendered and religious logics of colonialism - coloniality - remain hegemonic in India and are perpetuated by the BJP. This generates epistemic and material harms - being unjustly stereotyped and thus mistreated. In turn, Shaheen Bagh's resistance to coloniality will be explored as epistemic resistance (Medina 2013): the women protestors subverted oppressive gendered and anti-Muslim Hindutva constructions of Muslim women as submissive and bereft of agency.

这个项目使用殖民主义的概念（Quijano 2007）来质疑印度独立于殖民主义存在的凭据。通过探索最近Shaheen Bagh反对反穆斯林公民法的抗议活动，我将调查这种抵抗的认识论（基于知识的）方面，以了解当今印度人民党（BJP）领导的印度更广泛的反穆斯林不公正。这种方法的结果将是对像印度这样的后殖民国家的殖民罪责和当今对殖民的抵制有细致入微的理解。Shaheen Bagh从穆斯林妇女开始，其中许多人是第一次抗议，她们占领了德里的公共场所，抗议人民党的反穆斯林公民身份修正案。抗议者认为，自2014年印度人民党（BJP）赢得大选以来，反穆斯林的不公正行为激增，这些不公正行为达到了顶点：私刑、在没有征求穆斯林妇女意见的情况下将她们从伊斯兰离婚习俗中“解放”出来、与伊斯兰圣地的破坏者站在一边，以及在穆斯林占多数的克什米尔地区不断增加军事化。由于新冠肺炎限制措施，抗议活动在第101天被迫结束，同时政府还摧毁了抗议地点的壁画和艺术品。因此，该项目为记录Shaheen Bagh的认知意义提供了及时的贡献。虽然学者们（Anand 2011）将人民党对印度教（Hindutva）的认知承诺理解为印度教民族主义，但人民党领导的“后殖民”国家的动态往往是毋庸置疑的。我将通过探索印度教和殖民主义来解决这个问题，认为尽管1947年英国在印度的正式统治结束了，但殖民主义的压迫性性别和宗教逻辑-殖民主义-仍然在印度占据霸权地位，并由人民党延续。这会产生认知上和物质上的伤害——被不公正地定型，从而受到虐待。​