Jagannathan Srinath, Rai Rajnish, Jaffrelot Christophe
Indian Institute of Management, Indore, Indore, India.
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad, 380015 India.
J Bus Ethics. 2022;175(3):465-484. doi: 10.1007/s10551-020-04655-6. Epub 2020 Oct 20.
Governments and majoritarian political formations often present police violence as nationalist media spectacles, which marginalize the rights of the accused and normalize the discourse of majoritarian nationalism. In this study, we explore the public discourse of how the State and political actors repeatedly labeled a college-going student Ishrat Jahan, who died in a stage-managed police killing in India in 2004, as a terrorist. We draw from Derrida's ethics of unconditional hospitality to show that while police violence is aimed at constructing safety for the cultural majority, in reality, it reveals discourses of anxiety and precariousness. The unethicality of police violence lies in the enlargement of recognition in vicariously blaming the person who has been killed for being involved in several terror attacks. We show that police violence is premised on the temporal structure of majoritarian nationalism, the prevalence of gender inequity, and the call to breach the secular framework of law.
政府和多数主义政治组织常常将警察暴力呈现为民族主义的媒体奇观，这使得被指控者的权利被边缘化，并使多数主义民族主义的话语常态化。在本研究中，我们探讨了一种公共话语，即国家和政治行为者如何反复将一名2004年在印度一场精心策划的警察杀戮中死亡的大学生伊什拉特·贾汉（Ishrat Jahan）贴上恐怖分子的标签。我们借鉴德里达的无条件好客伦理，以表明虽然警察暴力旨在为文化多数群体构建安全，但实际上，它揭示了焦虑和不稳定的话语。警察暴力的不道德之处在于，通过间接指责被杀害者参与多起恐怖袭击来扩大认可范围。我们表明，警察暴力的前提是多数主义民族主义的时间结构、性别不平等的普遍存在以及对违反世俗法律框架的呼吁。
