Abstract:

On December 15, 2019, a group of elderly women from a Muslim ghetto on the outskirts of New Delhi came out in protest of the police brutalities against minority students who were resisting the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Despite the widespread attention it received, the protest eluded attempts to understand it fully within both popular and academic discursive frameworks. Such incomprehensibility, this essay argues, stems from a disavowal of the protest's fundamental organizational principle: care. This essay brings scholarship on political performance in conversation with feminist care studies in order to look at how grandmothers reproduce their quotidian actions of care as radical performance.

 抽象：

2019 年 12 月 15 日，一群来自新德里郊区穆斯林贫民区的老年妇女站出来抗议警察对抵抗最近通过的公民身份修正案 （CAA） 的少数族裔学生的暴行。尽管它受到了广泛的关注，但这场抗议活动未能在大众和学术话语框架中完全理解它。本文认为，这种不可理解性源于对抗议活动的基本组织原则的否定：关怀。本文将政治绩效的学术研究与女权主义护理研究进行对话，以研究祖母们如何将她们的日常护理行为再现为激进的表现。