ABSTRACT In this article, I argue that embodied forms of identity, politics and protests have become critical to South Asian social movements because actors have started identifying ways in which society uses their bodies to oppress them. The fact that “embodied” form of resistance is the prevalent theme of countless contemporary movements like Girls at Dhaba in Pakistan, Women’s March against President Donald Trump in the USA, “Pinjra Tod” in India, etc., proves that it is increasingly becoming urgent to study the way the female body can resist domination and oppressive structures. Discussing the definition of “embodied” resistance, and the gendered idea of “safety” and “peril” in urban spaces, I examine the ways in which recent protest movements such as Pinjra Tod (Break the Cages) in Delhi use embodied forms of politics and identity to subvert the norms that chain and restrict the female body.

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南亚抗议运动中政治和身份的体现形式：Pinjra Tod 和德里

摘要 在这篇文章中，我认为身份认同、政治和抗议的具体形式对南亚社会运动变得至关重要，因为行动者已经开始确定社会如何利用他们的身体来压迫他们。“具身”形式的抵抗是无数当代运动的普遍主题，例如巴基斯坦达巴的女孩、美国反对唐纳德特朗普总统的妇女游行、印度的“Pinjra Tod”等，这证明它越来越成为迫切需要研究女性身体抵抗支配和压迫结构的方式。讨论“具身”抵抗的定义，以及城市空间中“安全”和“危险”的性别观念，