The Struggle against the Citizenship Amendment Act in India: Recovering the Insurrectionary Praxis of Critical Pedagogy

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      Institute for Education Policy Studies. University of Northampton, School of Education, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, NN2 7AL, UK. Tel: +44-1273-270943; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.jceps.com
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      Y
    • Source:
      25
    • Subject Terms:
      Foreign Countries; Citizenship; Legislation; Criticism; Muslims; Critical Theory; Teaching Methods; Activism; Laws; Religious Cultural Groups; Buddhism; Christianity; Immigrants; Undocumented Immigrants; Political Attitudes; Social Influences; Organizations (Groups); History
    • Subject Terms:
      India; Afghanistan; Pakistan; Bangladesh
    • ISSN:
      1740-2743
    • Abstract:
      This paper locates the emergence of critical pedagogy (CP) as praxis in the protest movements in New Delhi, India, against the new citizenship amendment laws that were brought about by the Indian government. The ruling government in India brought amendments to the existing provisions for citizenship, such that persons from Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian religious communities from neighbouring Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan were allowed Indian citizenship. Muslims, however, were excluded from this. This exclusion, coupled with the national project established for finding illegal immigrants in India -- called the National Citizenship Registry project -- affects the Muslim communities in South-Asia and has been widely resisted across India, by Muslims and other social and political organisations. This paper traces the development of such a struggle in Shaheen Bagh, New Delhi, and proposes that CP as a critique of the social, emerged from the specificity of the Shaheen Bagh movement. Shaheen Bagh gives critical insights into rethinking CP whenever its foundational tenets seem to have been lost or are merely subsumed by disciplinary compartments within academia. This struggle offers us insights toward returning to the insurrectionary character of CP, by locating CP within the context of such struggles. At the same time, this study of Shaheen Bagh and the specific form of CP that emerged in thatcontext, also shows us the limitations of contemporary social movements to take CP to its logical conclusion where oppressive class relations are undermined.
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    • Publication Date:
      2022
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1340434