Peace and Conflict Studies Volume 27 Number 3 Article 4 2021 Kiss of Love Campaign: Contesting Public Morality to Counter Collective Violence Sonia Krishna Kurup Miss Savitribai Phule Pune University,
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[email protected]. Kiss of Love Campaign: Contesting Public Morality to Counter Collective Violence Abstract The paper studies the immense opposition to a nonviolent campaign against the practice of moral policing in Kerala to understand the dominant spaces, collective identities, and discourses that give shape to the outrage of public morality in India.