Description
Drawing from the experiences of the student led resistance in New Delhi and other parts of India against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register for Citizens passed by the Government of India in 2019, this paper proposes to study the reaction of the academic IR community within the domains of foreign policy analysis. The often raised critique of sitting in the ivory towers of the discipline, this paper looks at the responses of the academic community at large and the foreign policy community in particular to resistance led by the young turks of its own creed and investigates the near apathy and the calculated silence and even ignorance on the same. The paper would involve a review of social media responses and newspaper articles to look at the immediate reaction of those with stable position within the discipline and to gauge the response of the disciplinary community on a whole. The questions that it hopes to investigate are; Does academia not care for student movements with no direct connection? Do student movements of the Global south fall behind in gaining visibility? What is and what isn’t the acceptable issue within the disciplinary community worthy of evoking a response and rage? Does the gender of the respondent determine the response to the issues of resistance? In the course the study dwells upon the question of responsibility that lays upon us as an academic community, to speak up when we can.
