Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory最新文献

{"title":"Deep Sidhu, Kisan Morcha and the erasure of Sikh suffering in the liberal imagination","authors":"Prabhsharanbir Singh","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2087415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2087415","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the ideological roots of the tension between the Sikhs and the left organizations of Punjab in the context of Kisan Morcha. During the year-long protest movement, Deep Sidhu became the focal point of this tension. This article argues that the roots of this tension are far deeper than is commonly realized. The process of modernization and psychic McDonaldization that resulted from it, are the driving forces behind this tension. Deep Sidhu represented the singularity of Sikhi and Punjab that resisted this global drive towards uniformity. However, his death also sparked a new political consciousness.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"366 1","pages":"219 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74022817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"India's Three farm Laws and the issues they exposed","authors":"J. Rai","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2082142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2082142","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The complex interconnected issues, interests and factors that led the BJP Government in India to introduce the Three Farm Laws in what it claimed were progressive and subsequently repealed following the successful protests by farmers who saw them as threats to their livelihoods and culture and further resistance by states fighting off encroachment on their powers are multifaced. These include persistent political tensions in India's asymmetrical federalism, fears around livelihoods, concerns of cultural annihilation, effects of market orientated World Trade Organization rules and efforts by the CAIRN group of countries to penetrate the Indian market.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"28 1","pages":"113 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88025011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kisan Andolan in India (2020–21): Primacy of the political","authors":"B. Singh","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2082141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2082141","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The farmers unions in Punjab protesting against the Three Agricultural Laws gradually consolidated into an All-India Kisan Andolan when they marched to Delhi and camped at its borders. The farmers stayed put for an year till the Three Laws were repealed. This paper looks into the broad contours of andolan focusing on its seminal feature, the primacy of politics. The Morcha realized the significance of politics in the declaration of these laws and decided to counter the government’s strategy supporting the corporate houses politically. A nonviolent protest involving numerous sections of society, especially women, culminated in the farmers’ success.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"14 1","pages":"150 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86491770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Art of the protest: Portrayal of participation of women in the Kisan Mazdoor Andolan","authors":"Sonia Dhami","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2090766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2090766","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Artists are memorializing the Kisan Mazdoor Andolan in India through visual, spoken and performing arts. This article examines two selected artworks – one a painting and the other a digital piece. Both the works highlight the strong participation of women in this historic farm protest ongoing in India at this time.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"3 1","pages":"231 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88320220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Musicians in protest: A brief summary of musician involvement in the Indian farmers’ protests","authors":"Gurbeer Singh","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2085624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2085624","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Punjabi singers produced music in support of the farmers and took on-the-ground initiatives to join the protests alongside protesters at the Delhi border and in local protests. This paper analyzes Punjabi Sikh uses of music throughout history and compares them to the music that emerged in the Farmers' Protests. This paper uses Serge Denisoff's criteria for protest music to cross-examine Punjabi protest music produced in various time periods. The Farmers' protest music and musician involvement in the protests is then scrutinized to understand its significance to the protests and to understand the relationship between Punjabi singers and their audiences.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"4 1","pages":"186 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78476417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making sense of agrarian distress and peasant struggles in Punjab","authors":"Paramjit Singh, R. Ram","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2082198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2082198","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper situates peasant struggles in a larger context to unravel the consequences of the accumulated agrarian distress in Punjab. The Punjab peasantry has a rich legacy of resistance against the injustice of the statecraft. The all-inclusive character of the present peasant movement, to engage people across castes, classes, creeds, gender, regions, religions and ethnicity is an outcome of this legacy. Beyond these features, the significance of the movement also lies in the understanding of the protesting people about the importance of land, food sovereignty and the responsibility of the democratic state to ensure food security for the marginalized.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"67 1","pages":"5 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88852571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Echoes of protest: The role of art and literature in the Farmers and Laborers Protest","authors":"Amrit Deol","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2082197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2082197","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In August 2020, farmers and laborers arrived in New Delhi, India to protest the repressive farm laws supported by the Modi Administration. Because traditional media refused to cover the protest or provided misinformation, many utilized social media to provide insight into the day-to-day life in protest. However, social media maintained ways disrupt exchanges of political content through censorship. As the protests unfolded, protest art and literature became vital to the adaptability of the movement. Protesters generated unique art and literature that followed long historical traditions of protest in Punjab and created new mediums to distribute knowledge, art, and literature.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"42 1","pages":"225 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76965419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Undercurrents: Activism & the Arts","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2097518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2097518","url":null,"abstract":"Concurrently with the special issue on the Farmers’ Protests, we are also marking the creation of a new section in Sikh Formations with this issue we are calling, Undercurrents: Activism and the Arts. Undercurrents is a new section created in recognition of the importance of activism, the arts, and engaged scholarship in Sikh and Punjabi life-worlds. This new section aims to further the original scope of the journal to “open alternative horizons,” “provide a venue for the emergence of new perspectives,” and remain \"open to multiple ways in which cultural production creates zones of profound expressive possibilities”. In this vein, the “Undercurrents” section provides a forum for thought and creativity that expresses new oppositional solidarities in light of current events as well as events that remain hidden under or counter the dissemination of current events. This section seeks to highlight alternate engagements with prevailing scholarly, social, and cultural trends by embracing sentiments and experiences of exclusion and marginalization that are too often submerged by the tide of majoritarian idealized approaches. We are particularly interested in publishing articles, artwork, photoessays and video-essays on topics that defy easy categorization, and forms of expression that resist professionalization and rigidification of the knowledge system. Artists, activists and members of the public are encouraged to submit essays that inquire critically yet creatively into processes of subjective, social, ethico-political significance as they emerge in contemporary local and global affairs.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"6 1","pages":"ii - ii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88019076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking protest, religion, and democracy considering the Delhi farmers’s protest, or Kisan Morcha","authors":"H. Grewal, Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2087416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2087416","url":null,"abstract":"Farmers from Punjab and Haryana began a march to India’s capital, Delhi, in late November 2020. The central government had unilaterally passed three controversial Farm Bill on 20 September 2020, but concerns about the bills had been building prior to this, with a Farmers Union representative stating that the government had not done any consultation. The unions had organized to raise awareness about the bill and had staged a protest to the three ordinances on 16 September 2020. On 25th September, farmers’ leaders called a Bharat bandh, or All-India general strike, in protest of the newly passed farm laws. Shortly after announcing this strike, the farmers’ leaders realized their authority as protest organizers might be contested when Punjab’s political parties – the Shiromani Akali Dal Badal, the Congress Party, and the Aam Aadmi Party – began to use their sphere of influence to stir up popular sentiment. Punjab’s actors and singers, many of whom are from farmer and labourer families, tried to assist leaders of the unions like Joginder Singh Ugraha and Ruldu Singh by using their platforms to spread awareness of the issues with the laws. These attempts to rally support for the issue were met with resistance by union leaders who claimed the protest would be diluted, or overrun, by entities with less genuine commitment to supporting a prolonged protest against the farm laws. From the initial stage of organizing there were shared concerns about the impact of the legislation from a variety of economic, political, and cultural factors which, at critical stages, would threaten the frail alliances that slowly developed after protesters arrived at the border of Delhi. Since partition, Punjab’s governments have diligently invested in agriculture by increasing the amount of arable land, investment in irrigation, seed, fertilizer, and pesticide technologies. This strategy, not without its pitfalls, was able to ensure the state’s GDP growth year after year until about the 1990s. The economic liberalization of the 1990s in India coincided with political destabilization within Punjab. Since then, there has been a marked shift in Punjab’s prosperity. During these years, the Punjab state government invested comparatively less in its economy than other Indian states. This lack of capital investment caused Punjab’s economy to suffer a deep decline. At the same time, a number of sociocultural and health issues had been plaguing farmers and labourers for decades. The central government claimed to have penned the farm laws to address some of the challenges facing the entire agricultural sector, not just Punjab’s economy. Nonetheless, the stipulations around creating a free market led many to question whether the government was liberalizing the agricultural industry and exposing farmers directly to global market pricing. This created a sense of existential threat and anxiety around indebtedness as well as land insecurity, especially in Punjab and Haryana where government","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"30 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84902984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Historicizing and preserving the present: The role of music during the Farmers’ Protest","authors":"Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal","doi":"10.1080/17448727.2022.2084905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2022.2084905","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With the passing of three farm bills by the Parliament of India in September 2020, farmers and laborers from several different states marched to Delhi. The state used violence to dissuade protestors from entering the capital as government-sponsored media downplayed the situation. However, Punjabi artists came out strongly in support of the Farmers’ Protest by releasing dozens of songs of revolution. This article focuses on five songs which preserve the movement and highlight broader topics surrounding the protest including: the question of violence, the role of government-sponsored media censoring details, Sikh sovereignty, and the ongoing battle between Punjab and Delhi.","PeriodicalId":44201,"journal":{"name":"Sikh Formations-Religion Culture Theory","volume":"39 1","pages":"193 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78840461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}