Kashmir as a Borderland
Kashmir as a Borderland

Author: Antia Mato Bouzas

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2019-08-14

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 9048543991

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*Kashmir as a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Belonging across the Line of Control* examines the Kashmir dispute from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and within the theoretical frame of border studies. It draws on the experiences of those living in these territories such as divided families, traders, cultural and social activists. Kashmir is a borderland, that is, a context for spatial transformations, where the resulting interactions can be read as a process of 'becoming' rather than of 'being'. The analysis of this borderland shows how the conflict is manifested in territory, in specific locations with a geopolitical meaning, evidencing the discrepancy between 'representation' and the 'living'. The author puts forward the concept of belonging as a useful category for investigating more inclusive political spaces.

Rethinking Conflict at the Margins
Rethinking Conflict at the Margins

Author: Mohita Bhatia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-29

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 110888346X

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This book departs from the conventional academic narration of the conflict situation in Jammu and Kashmir and expands the debate by shifting the focus from Kashmir to Jammu region. Generally, it is the response of Muslim-majority Kashmir region - particularly its contestation of the hegemonic and assimilative temperament of the Indian state - that captures the attention of researchers. The Hindu-majority Jammu region which is affected by the conflict in many ways remains in the shadows. This book seeks to address this crucial academic gap by locating the conflict in Jammu region. Besides explaining the 'Hindu reactionary' and 'ultra-nationalist' responses of some sections of Jammu's society, the book also foregrounds the genuine grievances of its people and their concerns within the dominant 'Kashmir-centric' discourse.

The Human Toll of the Kashmir Conflict
The Human Toll of the Kashmir Conflict

Author: Shubh Mathur

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137509055

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Since 1989, when the movement for Kashmiri independence took the form of an armed insurgency, it has been one of the most highly militarized regions in the world. This book is based on the idea that preserving memory is central to the struggle for justice and to someday rebuild a society shattered by two decades of armed conflict.

South Asian Borderlands
South Asian Borderlands

Author: Farhana Ibrahim

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-10-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1108967574

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This is an interdisciplinary volume exploring a range of historical, anthropological and literary ideas and issues in South Asian Borderlands. Going beyond the territorial and geo-political imaginaries of contemporary borderlands in South Asia, chapters in this book engage with the questions of sovereignty, control, policing as well as continuing affections across politically divided borderlands. Modern conceptions of nationhood have created categories of legality and illegality among historically, socially, economically and emotionally connected residents of South Asian borderlands. This volume provides unique insights into the interconnected lives and histories of these borderland spaces and communities.

Xinjiang
Xinjiang

Author: S. Frederick Starr

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-04

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 1317451376

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Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and reconquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Mongolia, and Tibet, Will Xinjiang participate in twenty-first century ascendancy, or will nascent Islamic radicalism in Xinjiang expand the orbit of instability in a dangerous part of the world? This comprehensive survey of contemporary Xinjiang is the result of a major collaborative research project begun in 1998. The authors have combined their fieldwork experience, linguistic skills, and disciplinary expertise to assemble the first multifaceted introduction to Xinjiang. The volume surveys the region's geography; its history of military and political subjugation to China; economic, social, and commercial conditions; demography, public health, and ecology; and patterns of adaption, resistance, opposition, and evolving identities.

The Defiant Border
The Defiant Border

Author: Elisabeth Leake

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1107126029

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This book explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls throughout the twentieth century.

Women in Indian Borderlands
Women in Indian Borderlands

Author: Paula Banerjee

Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 2011-07-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9789353881641

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Women in Indian Borderlands is an ethnographic compilation on the complex interrelationship between gender and political borders in South Asia. The book focuses on the border regions of West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India. The chapters in the book examine the stories of women whose lives are intertwined with borders, and who resist everyday violence in all its myriad forms. They show how most of the traditional efforts to make geopolitical regions more secure end up privileging a masculine definition of security that only results in feminine insecurities. These essays discuss how women negotiate their differences with a state that, though democratic, denies space to differences based on ethnicity, religion, class or gender. Borders are interpreted as zones where the jurisdiction of one state ends and that of the other begins. What comes out is the startling revelation that women not only live on the borders, but in many ways, form them.

Borderland Infrastructures
Borderland Infrastructures

Author: Alessandro Rippa

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2020-08-06

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9048543568

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Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland infrastructures. Trade, Development, and Control in Western China addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries.

Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderland
Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderland

Author: Green CATHCART

Publisher: Asian Borderlands

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9789462987562

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In the past decade, the Chinese-North Korean border region has undergone a gradual transformation into a site of intensified cooperation, competition, and intrigue. These changes have prompted a significant volume of critical scholarship and media commentary across multiple languages and disciplines. Drawing on existing studies and new data, this volume brings much of this literature into concert by pulling together a wide range of insight on the region's economics, security, social cohesion, and information flows. Drawing from multilingual sources and transnational scholarship, the volume is enhanced by the extensive fieldwork undertaken by the editors and contributors in their quest to decode the borderland. In doing so, the volume emphasizes the link between theory, methodology, and practice in the field of Area Studies and social science more broadly.

The Frontier Complex
The Frontier Complex

Author: Kyle J. Gardner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-01-21

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1108840590

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Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.