Politics and the beyond: Communication in a transformative praxis

Abstract

addhi bottle tod do, daaru peena chhod do. (break the bottle of alcohol, stop drinking) Kya he faayda hua ye rally karna ka, ab hum man ko koi mand nahi dega. (what is the use of doing the rally, we will not get intoxicating drinks now) - Women of the village, Kuwapani These narrative statements show a journey; a journey from resistance throughressentiment driven outbursts to a patient reflection towards identifying the inner fascist; a journey which is not linear, but involves moving back and forth between the two positions and sometimes tangentially touching them and strolling on its own path; a journey which shows a different possibility of relating and communicating with the other. This chapter builds on an “action research” work in the village of Kuwapani, located in Bhanupratappur block of Uttar Bastar Kanker District in Chhattisgarh, India. The chapter does not only operate on the dyad between theory and practice, but also shows a movement between two specific kinds of practices, one guided by governance feminism and the other guided by schizopolitical becomings.