Geopoetics as contentious politics: strategic relevance of the Miya poetry movement against the NRC-CAA in Assam, India

Abu Sufian

Third World Quarterly, 2025, vol. 46, issue 10, 1190-1209

Abstract: How has the Miya poetry movement shaped the trajectory of contentious politics against the NRC-CAA (National Register of Citizens-Citizenship (Amendment) Act-2019) in Assam? In an attempt to answer this question, this study delves into the nature and dynamics of Miya poetry as one of the influential social movements against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) in Assam. The geo-narratives centring on the Miya poetry movement have expanded their activism space, demanding equal, just and political-legal citizenship in Assam and other Indian states where ethnoreligious minorities and subalterns have long faced systematic exclusion and ethnocratic repression since the independence of India. Based on narrative discourse, this study seeks to locate the strategic relevance of the Miya poetry movement, a peaceful and non-violent way of resisting the authoritarian and exclusionary decisions of the Indian ethnocratic state, as counterstorytelling against the dominant narratives and arrangements of power. The central argument of the study is that Miya poetry has become one of the powerful tools used to refuse Hindutva-based nationalism and territoriality, which have been infused by the geopolitics and geo-narratives of the NRC-CAA in Assam.

Date: 2025
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