Epilatorer og rødvin

I dag skal jeg ut å kjøpe epilator. Dette skal bli interessant merker jeg. Jeg skal også kjøpe noe rødvin som skal konsumeres før jeg skal gå til verks med selvpininga. Men som Gandhi sier, det er kun gjennom egen smerte man kan forstå andres. Jeg tror ikke han mente grundig hårfjernng var veien til satyagraha, men det er er jo lov til å håpe.

I går var det lang forelesning, et noe mislykket gruppemøte og drink på Le Space.

Men om det skulle interessere handler gruppeoppgava vår om kort sagt (kopiert fra prosjektbeskrivelsen):

State Violence and its tools as manifested in North East India
The following are some of the different aspects/themes of the conflict that we are going to focus on in the paper:

• Introduce the subject- dwell on the formation of State, post-colonial state and zero down to India and three states in Northeast India, namely Assam, Manipur and Nagaland. What is the historical context and present conflicts in these three states?

- Divide between valley and hills
- Inter state conflicts
- History as a frontier of the Indian State
• How is state violence affecting different indigenous groups/ peoples?

- Cultural violence: The oppressive discourse regarding the way people talk/think/act towards "tribal people" and how this might serve to legitimize direct (state)violence towards them). = a kind of "discursive violence" which can be seen as a specific form of cultural violence. This leads to direct violence

- Concept of borders and relations with South Asia and South East Asia
- Clash between Indian nationalism and ethnic nationalism (“the other”)
-Problems due to independence
-Structural violence.
-Direct violence (eg- AFSPA, militarization- will elaborate on these in the form of chapters)
-Territorial claims of the State and non-state combatants/insurgents
-Abuse of natural resources in the North East (like the building of big dams, Development vs peoples?, dynamite blasts in the river bed that lead to erosion, etc.)

- Structural violence: The economical interests that the Indian state/ institutions/peoples outside the north-east have in maintaining things the way they are in the region. How the resources in the region not benefits the people in the north-east, which is one of the poorest in India. = a kind of structural violence, because these economical interests serves to keep people down, leads to the maintenance of poverty, and also direct violences e.t.c

• What is Armed Forces Special Powers Act’s (AFSPA) role in these conflicts?

• What are the consequences of militarization of India in the North East?

• How is state violence affecting different groups of women?
-Militarization of women
(Women joining armed militias, rapes by the Indian army, taking Manorama’s example as a case study)

-Link between the government and the surrendered militia (eg- Surrendered United Liberation Front of Asom)+ the arming of villagers in Manipur as counter-insurgency measure.

• How are non-violent movements manifesting themselves?
-Non violence resistance (eg- mass protests against the army by women after Manorama’s death, civil society groups, media involvement)
-Hunger strikes etc

• Potential solutions/Problems to be addressed for bringing peace.

I tillegg til dette vil vi se på en del teori og metode fra Galtung og Gandhi..

Her er kart over nordøst, merk dere hva disse statene grenser til... Ikke rart det blir tension...



I kveld er vi invitert på fest til en av servitørene på Satsanga. Føler meg en del skeptisk til å gå på lokalfest uten lommekniv… så man får se.