Siting protests: minority rights, everyday state and the city in Mumbai

This paper builds upon a digital ethnography of protests against controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill in India in urban spaces in Mumbai led by working class Muslim women. Situating the engagement with urban spaces of working-class Muslim women within a larger history of feminist solidarities and everyday engagement with the state in predominantly Muslim neighbourhoods in Mumbai, this paper explores how citizenship claims are articulated at the nexus of political violence, spatial practices, and embodied ways of relating to the city. In doing so, I contribute to the literature on minority rights in political theory. I argue that we must understand minority claims by paying close attention to the spatial, embodied, and everyday gendered engagements of minority communities, and not merely reduce minority rights to reified liberal goods