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Schlagwörter:
Disgust; ghetto; middleclass; Mumbai; Muslim; Qurbani; sacrifice; slaughter
Zusammenfassung:
Hindu nationalist discourse articulates a link between the violenceof slaughter and the notion of a violent, abject Muslim as thecruel‘other’. However, for Muslims in Mumbai, the cruelty ofslaughter is not inherent, and questions of order and proprietyare heavily circumscribed by communal politics. This paperpresents moments during Bakri Id (Qurbani) and everyday lifewhen participants evoke or experience disgust. Drawing on a dis-cursive tradition of slaughter, together with everyday observationson infrastructure, order and marginalisation by middle-classMuslims from various walks of life, focuses attention on the waydisgust is and is not experienced by Muslims in the city. I arguethat these instances of disgust are moments of embodied critiquethat secure the middle-class Muslim as subject by pointing to thehistories of marginalisation, infrastructural neglect and improperreligious practice.
