ABSTRACT

The paper probes the historical and cultural-utopian rationale behind the wide acceptability of “Kiss of Love” (KoL) movement in India that sprang up during 2015 and assesses its theoretical significance as a heterotopic social movement. Heterotopia embodies tensions between place and non-place in public spaces. In the Indian context, streets have been places of extreme social segregation in terms of caste, gender and sexuality. Heterotopia does not mark “liberation” or “confinement,” but produces sites porous with openings so that the possibilities of alternate lives remain open. In this reconstitution of public spaces for resistance, “a passion for improvisation” articulates acts of resistance in the mediated environments of post-civil society social movements that remain absorbent, always in flux, always contested and never predetermined.

摘要

本文探讨了在2015年兴起的印度“爱之吻”（KoL）运动得到广泛接受的背后的历史和文化乌托邦式理论基础，并评估了其作为异位社会运动的理论意义。异视症体现了公共空间中场所与非场所之间的紧张关系。在印度背景下，就种姓，性别和性而言，街道已成为极端的社会隔离之地。异物不标记为“解放”或“限制”，但会产生带有开孔的位置，从而使另类生活的可能性保持开放。在这种公共空间的重建中，“对即兴的热情”明确表明了在后民间社会的社会运动的调解环境中的抵抗行为，这些运动保持吸收，始终在变化中，始终处于竞争状态并且从未预先确定。