Disciplining the other
The politics of post-tsunami humanitarian government in southern Nicobar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3864994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ajay Saini (0000-0003-3616-0527, Independent researcher and writer based in Delhi, India, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 308-335 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0069966718785961 |
| OpenAlex | W2885494593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
The Indian Ocean tsunami (2004) devastated the Nicobar archipelago, a remote tribal reserve in the Indian Ocean, which the Nicobarese indigenes have traditionally inhabited. The catastrophe attracted a massive humanitarian response from the Government of India (GoI), leading to a sociocultural crisis among the Nicobarese that is inextricably linked to the post-tsunami humanitarian government in the Nicobar, which undermined what was once a self-sustaining community. Using Michel Foucault's analytic of governmentality, this article elucidates how the humanitarian government in the southern Nicobar, motivated by a raison d'état of national security, attempted to discipline the traditional Nicobarese by developing new forms of subjectivities among them
Archaeology · Archipelago · Geography · Government (linguistics · Governmentality · Indian ocean · Indonesian · Indonesian government · Political science · Politics · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Oceanography · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
The Subject and Power
Michel Foucault
Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power
Critical And Effective Histories
The nominalist turn in theorizing power
The Southern Nicobar Islands as Imaginative Geographies
Foucault, Power, and Institutions
Discipline and Punish
Of Other Spaces
The Geographies of Heterotopia
Political power beyond the State
Economics and the Space of Modernity
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |