The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

Chopra, Deepta

doi:10.1080/13552074.2021.1981698

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“…For details, see Sarkar (2018). 6 Although see Chopra (2021), who argues in relation to retaliatory action against protestors at Shaheen Bagh that there continue to be cycles of repression of dissent and that there is a longer-term arc to the repression of dissent. While we agree with this assessment, we also argue that the drivers of backlash have a much longer-term arc going back to mythologised time and that they are not just proximate to Shaheen Bagh.…”

Section: Ids Bulletinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virulent Hindutva, Vigilante State: Situating Backlash and its Implications for Women’s Rights in India

Chigateri,

Kundu

2024

IDS Bulletin

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India is facing a period of seismic backlash against feminist and progressive politics and the pace of change, particularly over the last ten years, has been breakneck with serious consequences for women’s equality and human rights. Drawing on an examination of the reversals and pushbacks against women’s rights in three areas – the citizenship rights of Muslim women, the rights of domestic workers, and the impacts of restrictions on foreign funding on women’s rights organising – this article seeks to contribute not just to an understanding of the nature of the backlash faced by women’s rights in India, but also to the wider debates on backlash from global South feminist perspectives.

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Section: Ids Bulletinmentioning

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Virulent Hindutva, Vigilante State: Situating Backlash and its Implications for Women’s Rights in India

Chigateri,

Kundu

2024

IDS Bulletin

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“…Problematically, this shrinking of civic space often intersects with and intensifies the gender backlash, which is particularly impactful for women's rights and gender justice activism (Chopra 2021).…”

Section: The Challenge Of Constrained Civic Spacementioning

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Participação social para transições justas: Sumário executivo

Gaventa,

McGee,

Newell

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Para enfrentar o desafio premente das alterações climáticas, há uma necessidade urgente de transições nos sistemas de energia, alimentação, transportes e outros. Entretanto, há certos grupos da população, como por exemplo trabalhadores de sectores que fazem uso intensivo de carbono, que ficam a perder no processo de transição pois são afectados de forma negativa, socialmente e economicamente. No seu cerne, a ideia de uma transição justa é que as transições devem considerar plenamente as necessidades destes grupos, incluindo a criação de novas oportunidades nas economias mais ecológicamente sustentáveis e com menor teor de carbono são construídas para substituir os sectores com elevada intensidade de carbono.

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“…While there is much scholarly attention on youth pro‐democracy and environmental movements in Southeast Asia (Sangkhamanee 2021), generation remains “neglected” in analyses of resistance and environmental transformation in the region (Park and White 2017:1104). While Bhattacharjya (2021) draws out intergenerational tensions between feminist activists in India, Chopra (2021) shows how older and younger women strategically built an “ethos of care” so that women could balance domestic and waged labour and participate in multi‐month, women‐led sit‐in protests in Delhi. She argues that whilst older people are generally overlooked as resistance actors, “who a protestor could be was opened up” by these intergenerational protests (Chopra 2021:479–480; see also Nazneen and Okech 2021).…”

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“…While Bhattacharjya (2021) draws out intergenerational tensions between feminist activists in India, Chopra (2021) shows how older and younger women strategically built an “ethos of care” so that women could balance domestic and waged labour and participate in multi‐month, women‐led sit‐in protests in Delhi. She argues that whilst older people are generally overlooked as resistance actors, “who a protestor could be was opened up” by these intergenerational protests (Chopra 2021:479–480; see also Nazneen and Okech 2021). Similarly, we show how different generations strategically work together to resist dams and diversions over time, and highlight the strategies of older people.…”

Section: Conceptual Approach: Expanding Temporal‐political Strategies...mentioning

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Dams, Diversions, and Development: Slow Resistance and Authoritarian Rule in the Salween River Basin

Fung

Lamb

2023

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We engage geography's longstanding debate on what “counts” as resistance by introducing slow resistance to account for temporal‐political strategies against unjust developments, particularly under authoritarian conditions. We draw on over a decade of fieldwork in the Salween River Basin where dams and diversions have been proposed since 1979, including the most recent iteration, the Yuam River water diversion project in Northwest Thailand. We find that resistance by impacted communities and civil society encompasses slow, strategic, and considered actions over time and generations. Such resistance is necessarily protracted to contest developments (re)proposed over decades. By foregrounding the strategic use of time and temporality, we highlight often overlooked actions and strategies of resistance by a diverse range of actors, showing how resistance movements are incremental and interconnected over time, even when “under the radar”. These strategies are key to contesting and (re)shaping the conditions of development in the Basin.

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The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Virulent Hindutva, Vigilante State: Situating Backlash and its Implications for Women’s Rights in India

Virulent Hindutva, Vigilante State: Situating Backlash and its Implications for Women’s Rights in India

Participação social para transições justas: Sumário executivo

Dams, Diversions, and Development: Slow Resistance and Authoritarian Rule in the Salween River Basin

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