Monopolizing violence before and after 1984

Bhogal, Balbinder Singh

doi:10.1080/17448727.2011.561611

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“…Newer scholarship disrupts these tropes of assimilated and educated south Asians through the experiences of working‐class south Asians (Mitra, 2020), but most scholarly depictions of Sikh subject formation still place the community within incorporation frameworks of thriving American life (Judge & Brar, 2021). Most contemporary scholarship on US‐based Sikhs falls within three realms: post‐9/11 surveillance and anti‐Sikh hate crimes (Joshi, 2006; Sian, 2017; B. K. Singh, 2019), attempts for recognition within popular culture despite exclusion based on hypervisible markers of Sikh identity (Gibson, 1988; K. D. Hall, 2004), and grappling with ongoing anti‐Sikh violence in Punjab as a diasporic subject (Bhogal, 2011; Devgan, 2018; Thandi, 2014). While acknowledging the continued struggle Sikhs have with racist exclusion, studies on US‐based Sikhs still center incorporation where the state has and will continue to dictate viable Sikh subject formation.…”

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The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

Kaur

Tran

2023

Sociology Compass

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This paper argues existing scholarship on Asian American communities is limited by an assumption that incorporation into the US can productively address racial and economic precarity. As an alternative, we offer "Extinguishing Asian (American) Insurgency", a theoretical framework that incorporates histories of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonial politics of incorporation into contemporary sociological analyses of Asian subject formation. Applying Du Boisian sociology alongside Frantz Fanon and Joy James, the framework adopts a global, relational analysis of Asian Americans and the US state. We demonstrate the framework's utility through two case studies: anti-colonial Sikh diasporic politics through the Gadar Party and US state efforts to tie diasporic South Vietnamese identity to an anti-communist politic. As such, we encourage the study of alternative possibilities of Asian subject formation that are extinguished by state incorporation, particularly through imperialism and military serivce. Specifically, we address sociologists who extinguish the insurgent Asian American subject in their scholarship by assuming incorporation and pro-state politics as a natural end goal of migration, or those who simply do not name the US as the institutional force extinguishing possibilities of Asian Americans' insurgency.

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“…K. Singh, 2019), attempts for recognition within popular culture despite exclusion based on hypervisible markers of Sikh identity (Gibson, 1988;K. D. Hall, 2004), and grappling with ongoing anti-Sikh violence in Punjab as a diasporic subject (Bhogal, 2011;Devgan, 2018;Thandi, 2014).…”

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The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

Kaur

Tran

2023

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“…As elaborated in exegesis (e.g., see Murphy 2004, 343–44), martyrdom emerges from a perpetual remembrance of the interconnectedness of all things ( nām simarān ), which emancipates the self from its self‐individuation (Mandair 2009, 215), or ego ( haumai ), in a new becoming (the gurmukh ) given to universal compassion, spontaneous love, and relentless sovereignty (Bhogal 2012a, 861; Mandair 2009, 373, 377). Moreover, martyr(dom)s also contour collective memory, disclosing a “history of the Sikh people [that] has been one of marginalization and struggle at the periphery of three imperial hegemons: Mughal, British and Indian/Hindu.” (Bhogal 2011, 64). In an intertextuality (Silverstein 2005, 7) or “becoming‐comparable” characteristic of martyr(dom)s (Bernal 2017; Thiranagama 2014), dis/similarities between instances thereof can index (Silverstein 2013), or “point to,” dis/similarities between the respective contexts of their occurrence, in this case, regimes imperial, colonial, postcolonial, and liberal multicultural.…”

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The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek

Hothi

2024

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article concerns how competing investments in the real motivate political disagreement. The ethnography focuses on face-to-face debate in the wake of spectacular white supremacist violence against Sikhs in the United States. Young activists relate their struggle against racial supremacy to martyrs from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, motivating their call for a politics that would defy empire, cultivate coalitional alliances, and refuse well-worn performances of multicultural docility. However, for institutional decision-makers of rank, who ground their authority in having witnessed majoritarian state terror first-hand, such agonism risks decades of partial but hard-won respectability, legibility, and safety. This article argues that the in/comparability of evental violence is staked by a global “economy of agonism,” which mobilizes in this case at least two political forms distinctive of the late-twentieth century in each the politics of recognition and ethnonationalism. The article probes the competing investments motivating political disjuncture by tracking what is here called the “problem of diaspora,” the seeming untenability of calibrations to and between home(land) and sites of dispersion. An ethnographic pursuit of psycho-social cleavages consequently reveals the “extimacy” of, or mutual co-implication of internal and external in, “collective relation-making,” i.e., in making solidarity, alliance, or coalition amongst seemingly similarly situated others.

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“Give In, Cut Your Hair … Or It Makes You a Very Strong Person”: Diasporic Sikhs, Transnational Racialization, and Embodied Identity

Devgan

2022

Sociology of South Asia

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Monopolizing violence before and after 1984

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek

“Give In, Cut Your Hair … Or It Makes You a Very Strong Person”: Diasporic Sikhs, Transnational Racialization, and Embodied Identity

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