Coloniality, political subjectivation and the gendered politics of protest in a ‘state of exception’

Madhok, Sumi ORCID: 0000-0002-3192-6098 (2018) Coloniality, political subjectivation and the gendered politics of protest in a ‘state of exception’. Feminist Review, 119 (1). pp. 56-71. ISSN 0141-7789

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In this paper, I shall make the following propositions: In order to conceptually capture and represent acts of political protest in a state of exception, we will need to reorient and supplement our representational apparatuses and also our theoretical frameworks for thinking about the gendered modes of protest under emergency laws and political abandonment. Through an analysis of the ‘naked protest’ of the Meira Peibis in Manipur, a ‘state of exception’ in democratic India, I shall argue for a series of supplementations to our current thinking on intersectionality, bare life and political subjectivation, if we are to make sense of political acts of resistance, refusal and disavowal of the law of exception.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.feminist-review.com/
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Author
Divisions:	Gender Studies
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited:	06 Dec 2017 14:26
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 21:32
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/85974

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