Spaces of informal militarism: Analysing violence, resistance, and militarism in contemporary India

非正式军国主义的空间：分析当代印度的暴力、抵抗和军国主义

• 批准号: 2717108
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2717108
• 关键词: Spaces; informal; militarism; Analysing; violence

This research has two objectives: (1) To use militarism as a conceptual lens to study contemporary violence in India and (2) To develop a provincialized framework for informal militarism in India. This research explores the informalisation of and resistance to militarism in India under the rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It uses the ongoing protest movement against the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as a case study to analyse this trend. The controversial CAA has been associated with a rise in violence against marginalised populations, especially Muslims, and has given rise to increasingly militarised resistance and counter-resistance movements. However, existing frameworks of militarism, most of which are developed in a narrow set of 'western' contexts are not effective in identifying the full scope of this largely unregulated and informal militarism. These frameworks are drawn from western conceptions of security and military and are based in western socio-political structures, which limits their application in postwestern contexts (Rodriguez, 2018). This research adopts postcolonial and feminist approaches to contextualise militarism and resistance to militarism in the Indian context, focusing on Delhi and Kolkata. It employs rich qualitative methods including participatory observation, focus groups and social media analysis to understand the spatial, material, and discursive impacts of militarism and its resistance in India. It draws from and contributes to critical military studies, critical security studies and feminist geopolitics, bringing these bodies of work together in an important yet underexplored context. The research is timely considering the proliferation of militarised political violence globally.

本研究有两个目标：(1)将军国主义作为研究印度当代暴力的概念镜头；(2)为印度非正式军国主义建立一个省级框架。本研究探讨了在印度人民党（BJP）统治下的印度军国主义的非正式化和抵抗。它以正在进行的反对2019年《公民身份修正案》（CAA）的抗议运动为例，分析了这一趋势。有争议的CAA与针对边缘人群（尤其是穆斯林）的暴力上升有关，并引发了越来越多的军事化抵抗和反抵抗运动。然而，现有的军国主义框架，其中大部分是在一套狭窄的“西方”背景下发展起来的，并不能有效地识别这种基本上不受管制和非正式的军国主义的全部范围。这些框架来自西方的安全和军事概念，并基于西方的社会政治结构，这限制了它们在后西方背景下的应用（Rodriguez, 2018）。本研究采用后殖民主义和女权主义的方法，将军国主义和对军国主义的抵抗置于印度的语境中，重点关注德里和加尔各答。它采用丰富的定性方法，包括参与式观察，焦点小组和社交媒体分析，以了解军国主义及其在印度的抵抗的空间，材料和话语影响。它从重要的军事研究、重要的安全研究和女权主义地缘政治中汲取并作出贡献，将这些工作机构整合在一个重要但未被充分探索的背景下。考虑到军事化政治暴力在全球范围内的扩散，这项研究是及时的。