“No city for lovers”: anti-Romeo squads, resistance, and the micro-politics of moral policing in an Indian city
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“No city for lovers” : anti-Romeo squads, resistance, and the micro-politics of moral policing in an Indian city. / Sen, Atreyee.
I: Critical Asian Studies, Bind 54, Nr. 3, 2022, s. 307-326.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - “No city for lovers”
T2 - anti-Romeo squads, resistance, and the micro-politics of moral policing in an Indian city
AU - Sen, Atreyee
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 BCAS, Inc.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article explores the quotidian politics of women’s virtue vigilante groups in Mumbai. It illustrates the multiple ways in which lower class “respectable women,” ranging from members of ladies’ groups to lone-wolf leaders, actively participate in cleansing the cityscape of what they believe is “sexual vulgarity” by daily surveillance over public displays of love in poor and peripheral localities. This militant scrutiny of urban public conduct is intimately related to daily security anxieties about those they label as perverts, sex addicts, and pedophiles occupying urban areas, which are still safe spaces for less affluent women and children. These women’s groups and their resilient/adaptable moral authority in the management of public space offer imperceptible and enduring challenges to the hegemony of police governance over such urban spatial orders.
AB - This article explores the quotidian politics of women’s virtue vigilante groups in Mumbai. It illustrates the multiple ways in which lower class “respectable women,” ranging from members of ladies’ groups to lone-wolf leaders, actively participate in cleansing the cityscape of what they believe is “sexual vulgarity” by daily surveillance over public displays of love in poor and peripheral localities. This militant scrutiny of urban public conduct is intimately related to daily security anxieties about those they label as perverts, sex addicts, and pedophiles occupying urban areas, which are still safe spaces for less affluent women and children. These women’s groups and their resilient/adaptable moral authority in the management of public space offer imperceptible and enduring challenges to the hegemony of police governance over such urban spatial orders.
KW - India
KW - informal policing
KW - Urban life
KW - vigilantism
KW - young lovers
KW - Urban life
KW - India
KW - informal policing
KW - young lovers
KW - vigilantism
U2 - 10.1080/14672715.2022.2078732
DO - 10.1080/14672715.2022.2078732
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85130722355
VL - 54
SP - 307
EP - 326
JO - Critical Asian Studies
JF - Critical Asian Studies
SN - 1467-2715
IS - 3
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