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Being an honourable hindu girl: understanding sexuality, agency, and the city in hindu nationalist disourses

Title of the event Being an honourable hindu girl: understanding sexuality, agency, and the city in hindu nationalist disourses
Organizer Göttinger Centrum für Geschlechterforschung (GCG) und Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS)
Speaker AASTHA TYAGI
Speaker institution CeMIS
Type of event Podiumsdiskussion
Category Campus Leben
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Details The current ruling government in India belongs to the largest Hindu
nationalist coalition in the country. Rashtra Sevika Samiti (hereon,
Samiti) is the parallel women’s organisation to the ideological head of
Hindu nationalism in India, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Together, along with affiliate organisations, they believe in the idea of the
Hindu nation (Akhand Bharat/Hindu Rashtra) devoid of the undesirable
‘other’. This project seeks to understand how young women are sought to
be socialised into a particular idea of nationhood. Based on participant
observation in the organisations‘ camps in 2013 and 2017, this paper uses
the pedagogic narratives used by the Samiti authorities that create the aura
of threat rooted in the city and the body of the ‘other’ (male, Muslim).
The paper argues that by collapsing and combining the threat of sexual
violence into the space embodied by the ‘other’ and vice-versa, Samiti
creates a cautionary ideology against mobility and choice. Secondly, such
a discourse enables the mobilisation and creation of a desired form of
‘Hindu masculinity’. Additionally, through in-depth interviews with young
women attending the camp, it has emerged that young women actively
negotiate and respond to such narratives, and devise strategic methods to
navigate the everyday of the public sphere.
Discussants:
Lalit Vachani, filmmaker (CeMIS)
Dr. Nandagopal R. Menon, anthropologist (CeMIS)
Date Start: 12.12.2017, 18:00 Uhr
Ende: 12.12.2017 , 20:00 Uhr
Location Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14)
2.601
Contact 0551 39 10937
info@gcg.uni-goettingen.de
External link https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/flyer_aastha+t...