Hindu and Muslim women's everyday relations and agency: Gender and the Ganga-Jamni tehzib in Jaipur

Narayanan, Yamini

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2016.04.004

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“…To this end, identity politics is ‘a claim that identities are politically relevant, an irrefutable fact,’ and it is around identities that ‘political structures are played out, mobilized, reinforced, and sometimes challenged’ (Alcoff and Mohanty 2006: 7). Identity helps to politicise myriad areas of marginalised life, such as everyday relations between diverse religious communities (Narayanan 2016), gender (Butcher 2022), sexuality (Krishnan 2017, Dave 2012), and disability (Darling 2013), among others. To this end then, Kauffman (1990: 67) argues that identity's ‘elaboration, expression, or affirmation—is and should be a fundamental focus of political work’.…”

Section: Species Identity and Identification As Speciesmentioning

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Theme issue introduction: The species turn in Indian identity politics

Narayanan

Srinivasan

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Animals are instrumentalised as symbols, objects, and commodities in the construction of diverse subaltern and elite human identities and identity politics in India, through their imposed identification with various human groups, with enduring implications for animal and human (in)justice and wellbeing. Species, as itself as an axis of social difference, and therefore of identity, however, has hitherto rarely been considered as a core facet of identity politics in Indian political life, despite its central role in shaping the inclusions and exclusions that characterise society. This Theme Issue aims to open the space for animal identities to become political, allowing for a critical multispecies politics of identity. To this end, it asks: In what ways can animals be centred as a core part of democratic political life? What are the consequences of doing so? In other words, what opportunities or concerns emerge with the institutionalization of species difference as an identity category? And last, in what ways does a multispecies approach to identity politics impact the analysis of (in)justice in its varied forms in contemporary India and beyond?

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