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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
The volume is an interesting collage of selective borderlands and alerts us to the research vistas that need to be addressed in further studies. -- Contributions to Indian Sociology
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
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ISBN-13
978-81-321-0650-0 (9788132106500)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Paula Banerjee specializes in issues of border and borderlands in South Asia. She has published extensively on issues of gender, forced migration and peace politics. Her recent publications include a volume entitled Borders, Histories, Existences: Gender and Beyond (2010). S he has edited a volume entitled Women in Peace Politics (2008) and co-edited books on Internal Displacement in South Asia (2005), Autonomy beyond Kant and Hermeneutics (2007) and Marginalities and Justice (2009). S he has been working on themes related to women, borders and democracy in South Asia, and has published extensively in journals such as International Studies and Canadian Women's Studies on issues such as histories of borders and women in conflict situations. S he was the former Head of the Department in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, and is currently Associate Professor in the same Department. She is also the Vice President of International Association for Study of Forced Migration.
Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is a Research Associate in the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (CRG) and a Guest Lecturer in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta. S he specializes in issues of violence and displacement, partition refugees and energy diplomacy in South Asia. S he has authored a book entitled SAARC at Crossroads: The Fate of Regional Cooperation in South Asia (2006) including three monographs and journal articles. S he has received the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) Senior Media Fellowship (2007-2008) and the Kodikara Award (1998-99).
Introduction: Resistance in the Borderlands - Paula Banerjee and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury
Part 1: West Bengal
Bengal-Bangladesh Borderland: Chronicles from Nadia, Murshidabad and Malda - Paula Banerjee
Narrated Time and Constructed Space: Remembering the Communal Violence of 1950 in Hooghly - Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury
Part 2: Jammu and Kashmir
Women's Voices: From Jammu and Kashmir - Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal and Suchismita
Renegotiating Internal Boundaries by Women of Jammu and Kashmir - Sumona DasGupta
Part 3: Northeast
Sanitized Society and Dangerous Interlopers: Law and the Chins in Mizoram - Sahana Basavapatna
Engendered Lives: Women in the West Garo Hills - Anjuman Ara Begum
Part 4: Voices
Voices of Women in the Borderlands - Aditi Bhaduri
Voices of Women in a Border Town called Moreh - Chitra Ahanthem
Consolidated Bibliography
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