Talk:Philipp Zehmisch

By Anirudha Patel

Dr. Philipp Johannes Zehmisch is a senior academic staff of Anthropology at the South Asia Institute as of November 2022.. According to his university profile, his research focus is political anthropology, postcolonial and subaltern studies, qualitative research methods, critical migration research, borderland studies, partition studies, anthropology of ethics, globalization, anthropology of anarchy, human-environment relations and indigeneity and his regional focus is India and Pakistan.

He has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government in the context of BJP government.

In 2021, he endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to Indian

1. Zehmisch, Philipp. Can Migrants be Indigenous? Affirmative Action, Space and Belonging in the Andaman Islands. Modern Asian Studies, vol. 56, Special Issue 5 Multiple Worlds of the Adivasi, 2022, pp. 1489-1514. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X2100038X.
2. Zehmisch, Philipp. Bringing Subalterns into Speech? Investigating Anarchic Resistance to Hegemonic Modernity. Revista de Antropología y Sociología: Virajes, vol. 24, no. 2, 2022, pp. 110–131.
3. Zehmisch, Philipp. Bengali Hindu Refugees in the Andaman Islands. In The Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India, edited by S. Irudaya Rajan. London and New York: Routledge, 2022, pp. 545–549.
4. Zehmisch, Philipp. The Conservation of Anarchy: Ethnographic Reflections on Forest Policies and Resource Use. In Energies Beyond the State: Anarchist Political Ecology and the Liberation of Nature, Vol. 3 of Anarchist Political Ecology, edited by Jennifer Mateer, Simon Springer, Martin Locret-Collet, and Maleea Acker. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022, pp. 143–160.
5. Zehmisch, Philipp. Über das Schweigen Sprechen: 100 Jahre Adivasi-Migration auf die Andamanen. Südasien, no. 1, 2021, pp. 88–89.
6. Zehmisch, Philipp. Speaking about Silence: One Hundred Years of Adivasi Migration to the Andamans. Fieldsights, Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), 2020.
7. Zehmisch, Philipp, and Ruhi Deol. Changing Perceptions of Environmental Change, Vulnerability, and Adaptation in the Andaman Islands. International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Newsletter, IIAS no. 85, 2020, pp. 40–41.