‘You Call Us Goons! Have You Seen How Their Women Act?’: Gendering as a Protest Strategy among Hindu Nationalist Students in New Delhi
Founded in 1949, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is the largest political student organisation in the world. ABVP fights university elections, helps students navigate university bureaucracy, and conducts extra-curricular activities for students. It is one of the strongest arms of the large...
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| description | Founded in 1949, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is the largest political student organisation in the world. ABVP fights university elections, helps students navigate university bureaucracy, and conducts extra-curricular activities for students. It is one of the strongest arms of the largest and most influential coalition of Hindu nationalist organisations called the Sangh Family (Sangh Parivar) in promoting Hindu nationalist ideology to an extremely influential demographic: the young, university-educated, and urban populace. As a member of the largest Hindu nationalist organisation in the world, what does it mean to protest in the present political moment – with the knowledge that there is state and institutional support on your side? Ethnographic data and interviews show that gender plays a key role in how protests are organised and performed. In this article, the sites of the ABVP protest are deconstructed to illustrate two objectives: first, to lay out the preparations that go into ‘doing’ protest. Second, the strategies, micro-politics and navigations that show how protests are gendered. Gendering emerges as a strategy of assertion against women of the left and progressive groups. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-84c9ee0675a74344aa9042e896de378f2023-12-26T20:52:08ZengLectito JournalsFeminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics2468-44142023-03-01710710.20897/femenc/12885‘You Call Us Goons! Have You Seen How Their Women Act?’: Gendering as a Protest Strategy among Hindu Nationalist Students in New DelhiAastha Tyagi0The Georg-August Universität Göttingen, GERMANYFounded in 1949, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is the largest political student organisation in the world. ABVP fights university elections, helps students navigate university bureaucracy, and conducts extra-curricular activities for students. It is one of the strongest arms of the largest and most influential coalition of Hindu nationalist organisations called the Sangh Family (Sangh Parivar) in promoting Hindu nationalist ideology to an extremely influential demographic: the young, university-educated, and urban populace. As a member of the largest Hindu nationalist organisation in the world, what does it mean to protest in the present political moment – with the knowledge that there is state and institutional support on your side? Ethnographic data and interviews show that gender plays a key role in how protests are organised and performed. In this article, the sites of the ABVP protest are deconstructed to illustrate two objectives: first, to lay out the preparations that go into ‘doing’ protest. Second, the strategies, micro-politics and navigations that show how protests are gendered. Gendering emerges as a strategy of assertion against women of the left and progressive groups.https://www.lectitopublishing.nl/download/you-call-us-goons-have-you-seen-how-their-women-act-gendering-as-a-protest-strategy-among-hindu-12885.pdfIndiagenderHindu nationalismstudent politicsABVP |
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| title | ‘You Call Us Goons! Have You Seen How Their Women Act?’: Gendering as a Protest Strategy among Hindu Nationalist Students in New Delhi |
| title_full | ‘You Call Us Goons! Have You Seen How Their Women Act?’: Gendering as a Protest Strategy among Hindu Nationalist Students in New Delhi |
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| title_short | ‘You Call Us Goons! Have You Seen How Their Women Act?’: Gendering as a Protest Strategy among Hindu Nationalist Students in New Delhi |
| title_sort | you call us goons have you seen how their women act gendering as a protest strategy among hindu nationalist students in new delhi |
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