Reimagining citizenship: The politics of India's amended citizenship laws

印度刚刚修订的公民法、持续不断的反对这些修正案的抗议活动以及政府持续的残酷镇压表明，政治变化迅速，人道主义紧急情况需要得到紧急关注。该项目旨在通过即将到来的公民官方身份识别和对此类机制的持续抗议，从民族志上研究印度公民身份的新兴重新想象。通过民族志研究人们将被列为公民或被排除在NRC之外的机制，该项目是对我们对公民身份的官方想象知识差距的紧急回应，这只能在未来12个月内完成。通过对抗议印度修订公民法的抗议活动进行人种学研究，在抗议活动展开时以及在抗议活动被胁迫屈服之前，该项目是对我们对公民身份的对立想象的理解有限的一种紧急回应，这种理解只有在未来几个月才有可能实现。这个研究项目为长期研究公民身份的未来提供了基础，因为民主国家不仅在印度，而且在世界其他地方“倒退”、“衰退”和“死亡”。

India's just-amended citizenship laws, the groundswell of ongoing protests against these amendments and their continued brutal repression by the state signal rapid political change and the making of a humanitarian emergency that warrants urgent attention. This project aims to ethnographically research the emergent reimaginations of citizenship in India through imminent official identification of citizens and ongoing protests against such mechanisms, By ethnographically researching the mechanisms through which people will be enumerated as citizens or excluded from the NRC, the project is an urgent response to the gap in our knowledge of official imaginations of citizenship that can only be accomplished within the next 12 months. By ethnographically researching the protests against India's amended citizenship laws as they unfold and before they are browbeaten into submission, the project is an urgent response to the limits in our understanding of oppositional imaginations of citizenship that will only be possible to achieve over the next few months. This research project provides the basis for longer-term research on the future of citizenship as democracies 'backslide', 'recede' and 'die' not only in India but elsewhere in the world.