In an age where essentialisms and reductionisms appear to drive the politics of hate in most parts of the world, this essay seeks to explore the insight, hope and room for manoeuvre offered by situated local knowledges. Counterposing the “white working class” category in public discourse in the United States with the newly emergent political category of Muslim women protestors in India, the article questions the assumption that all essentialisms necessarily contain exclusionary potentialities.

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歌颂美国和印度的黑暗时代：关于我们本质主义时代的情境理解的笔记

在这个时代，在世界上大部分地区，本质主义和还原主义似乎推动了仇恨政治的发展，本文试图探索本地知识所提供的见解，希望和回旋余地。该文章将美国公共话语中的“白人工人阶级”类别与印度穆斯林妇女示威者的新出现的政治类别相对立，提出质疑所有基本主义必定具有排他性潜力的假设。