On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity

Arif, Nida (2025) On-going Shaheen Bagh: collective creation, newness and solidarity. Contemporary South Asia. pp. 1-7. ISSN 0958-4935 (In Press)

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Abstract

In his work Now It’s Come to Distances: Notes on Shaheen Bagh, Coronavirus, Association and Isolation (2020), Soumyabrata Choudhury argues that the historical sit-in protest of Shaheen Bagh 2019 was a project of ‘collective creation’ that went beyond the interests of one section of society and made something universally imaginable to anyone. In its ability to form associations across the lines of religion, sex, age, caste, economic activities, and language, Shaheen Bagh inaugurated a project of new avenues of solidarity, especially through the overwhelming participation of women. ‘New’ in Choudhary’s formulation is a threshold that transforms the possibilities of our living histories. ‘New’, then, is historically contextual in the passage of time as all historical situations are. By building on Choudhury’s thesis on the same, this viewpoint article advocates reimagining this solidarity built across disparate lines as something temporal. This is in opposition to governmental practices of containing popular protests into spatial grids. A reimagined solidarity would ensure that Shaheen Bagh’s newness continues to live by channeling itself into new issues. People’s movements in India must be an ongoing Shaheen Bagh.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Solidarity | collective creation | newness | Shaheen Bagh | Soumyabrata Choudhury
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Arts and Humanities > Literature and Literary Theory
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal School of Languages & Literature
Depositing User: Dharmveer Modi
Date Deposited: 20 Jan 2025 09:33
Last Modified: 20 Jan 2025 09:33
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2024.2443170
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/9031

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