Author: Jason Keith Fernandes
Jason Keith Fernandes, ‘CONTEMPLATING CITIZENSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA’ Special Lecture at the Tamil Nadu National Law University,13 July 2021
Abstract
Citizenship has been at the heart of many of the more recent controversies within India – be it those linked with the revocation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution and the dismemberments of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, the National Register of Citizens, or the Constitutional Amendment Act. The polemics around these issues have demonstrated with uncomfortable clarity, however, that there is much confusion between the terms nationality and citizenship, with the latter often being understood to mean the same as the former. Drawing on the legal history of the subcontinent, including spaces from outside of British India, particularly Portuguese India, Dr Fernandes suggests that there is a fundamental distinction between the two terms and it is necessary to maintain this distinction if the citizenship rights of Indian nationals are to be preserved.
Para que os subalternos não falem: a oclusão do património português entre os goeses
Por JASON KEITH FERNANDES
Ninguém sabe ao certo como tratar o denominado património português em Goa. A confusão deve-s ao facto de que este património não se refere apenas a alguns monumentos ou práticas do passado, mas é um património vivo e que respira, corporeamente materializado nas pessoas de Goa, como um todo e, particularmente, nos católicos. Isto faz com que se trate de um património volátil e, por isso, muitos esforços académicos têm sido investidos em negá-lo ou rejeitar a sua complexidade.
Jason Keith Fernandes: “Citizenship in a Caste Polity”
Jason Keith Fernandes in conversation with Vivek Menezes, in a webinar organized by the Dogears Bookstore, Margao, Goa.
Jason Keith Fernandes: The Suppression of Romi Konkani and the Shaming of a People
Courtesy: Joao Roque and Malavika Neurekar
The history of the Konkani language has been fraught with conflicts of all shades, including a complex relationship with the colonial Portuguese state, a movement to establish its existence as separate from Marathi in the 1960s, and a widespread controversy around the medium of instruction in state schools in the early 1990s. But its most interesting episode is perhaps also the least talked about.
Jason Keith Fernandes: Interviewed about “Citizenship in a Caste Polity”
Courtesy: Jane Borges, Mid-Day.
LONG after the Portuguese left Goa in 1961, the erstwhile colonisers were still in vogue in the coastal belt. Cars and three-wheelers displaying Portuguese flags, national colours and emblems would amble down the quaint gullies and streets, as if India was not mothership yet. Jason Keith Fernandes, who was pursuing his doctoral research then, remembers being intrigued by this practice, common among the working-class and lower middle-class Goan Catholics. This, he’d learn, was not just their attempt to demonstrate claim to Portuguese citizenship, but also distinguish themselves from the rest of the population in the state. (more…)
Jason Keith Fernandes: “ISHQ | Pride, Politics, Solidarity”
Jason Keith Fernandes was recently invited to participate in a discussion which looks on how the politics of Pride and Gay liberation in India impacts on the larger questions of citizenship of marginalised communities.
Jason Keith Fernandes: “Why Should We Be Critical about the 2018 Supreme Court Judgement Against Section 377?”
From the EPW podcast description: “A 2018 Supreme Court ruling that decriminalised queer sex was widely celebrated. Judges and petitioners framed the move as India “decolonising itself” of British legislation and beliefs. Based on an examination of the 495-pages long judgement, researcher Jason Fernandes shares with us that the court’s framing is simplistic and limited. Rather than rupture the Brahmanical nationalist project, the judgement buttresses an “ideal citizen subject of the Indian nation-state.” The insights he will share are based on an article he published in the EPW on 4 January 2020 titled “Probing into the Freedoms of Queer Liberation in India.”
Narendra Modi and António Costa: A Dangerous Tango in the Times of COVID19
By JASON KEITH FERNANDES
It was somewhat surreal reading one of the Twitter posts of António Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal, on March 5. In his tweet Costa indicated that he had “had an excellent conversation today with Narendra Modi” and whom he “congratulated on the good results achieved in containing the pandemic in a country as large and populous as India.” (more…)