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.

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印度洋海啸（2004 年）摧毁了尼科巴群岛，尼科巴群岛是印度洋的一个偏远部落保护区，尼科巴原住民传统上居住于此。这场灾难引起了印度政府 (GoI) 的大规模人道主义响应，导致尼科巴人之间的社会文化危机与尼科巴海啸后的人道主义政府密不可分，这破坏了曾经自给自足的社区。本文利用米歇尔·福柯对治理性的分析，阐明了尼科巴南部的人道主义政府如何在国家安全存在理由的推动下，试图通过在他们中间发展新形式的主体性来约束传统的尼科巴人。