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In mid-December 2019 a nationwide protest movement took to the streets in India against the new xenophobic, Islamophobic, and casteist citizenship laws instated by the Bharatiya Janata party-led central government. Months-long sit-ins, marches, and spontaneous gatherings carried on early into 2020, halted only by the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. By late March, a national lockdown was declared, and multiple protest sites across the country were razed to the ground, their visible traces slowly vanished. In the year that has followed since, the energy, vigor and steadfast resolve of the movement has been subject to a state-led campaign that seeks to tarnish its premise: a simple call for a return to the secular and democratic foundations of the Indian Constitution. This essay will write the story of the protest movement as the cultural moment that it was, and look at the afterlife of images, footage, and artworks that were made both during, and as a direct result of it.

Art Theory

Remember the Details

by Skye Arundhati Thomas

Publisher
Release Place Berlin, Germany
Edition 1st edition
Release Date October 2021
Credits
Printrun 800
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-3-9819108-6-5
Work  
Topics India, Protest Movements
Language English
Format Softcover
Dimensions 12.0 × 17.0 cm
Pages 48

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