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SUMMARY:Rethinking urban resistance as sites for rebuilding differential s
 olidarities - Papia Sen Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
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DESCRIPTION:Citizens' movements resisting an authoritarian\, unjust and hi
 gh-handed states have faced immense coercion and police violence across th
 e globe. State narratives of these protests term them as 'dissenting'\, 'a
 nti-national' and 'anti-people'. Most protests fizzle away due to policing
 \, surveillance\, and state-action or fall into than the trap of 'state-me
 dia constructed narratives' posing one community against the other. In suc
 h times how can scholars\, citizen-activists\, and people start a process 
 of negation of such allegations through a process of initiation of re-buil
 ding solidarity. \n\nThe study addresses these questions by:\n\n(i) Invest
 igating whether and how these sites of 'resistance' in their spatial-tempo
 rality be transformed into spaces of inception of 'differential-solidarity
 ' cutting across but accepting differences. \n\n(ii) Developing the concep
 t of 'differential solidarity' by deploying the intersectionality approach
  to probe the urban resistance focusing on Muslim women anti-CAA protest i
 n India 2019-2020.\n\n(iii) Is it an illusion to seek violence-free sustai
 nable life for humans and non-humans when we are on the brink of 'polycris
 is'? \n\nPapia Sen Gupta (Sengupta) teaches in Centre for Political Studie
 s at India's Jawaharlal Nehru University. At present she is affiliated wit
 h the Urban Institute at Sheffield as British Academy International Fellow
 . She has published extensively on South Asian politics particularly on li
 nguistic and education policies\, minority accommodation and multicultural
 ism\, federal democratization\, including her monograph on Language as Ide
 ntity (2018) and Critical Sites of Inclusion in India's Higher Education (
 2022)\, and numerous journals in Economic and Political Weekly\, Geoforum\
 , International Journal of Multilingualism\, Social Change\, Droit et Cult
 ure and Social Action. She recently completed her second monograph on Ling
 uistic sub-nationalism and democratization in India (forthcoming 2024) and
  is currently working on her monograph titled Rethinking urban resistance 
 and democracy: Towards building 'differential solidarities'.\n\nSpeakers:\
 nPapia Sen Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
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