
The Rohingya
An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life
Nasir Uddin(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 14. October 2020
Book
Hardback
259 pages
978-0-19-948935-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Rohingya are known as the most persecuted minority population in the world. They do not belong to any state as Myanmar striped of the citizenship rendering them stateless and Bangladesh does not recognise them even as refugees. With the case of Rohingya people, the book offers a comprehensive portrait of the hidden transcript of statelessness, non-citizenship, transborder movements and refugee-hood in the legal structure of modern nation-state. It illuminates pains, sufferings, and struggle of carrying out the state of statelessness and refugee-hood at home-state and host-state across the world in general and the Rohingya people in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar in particular. The book with ethnographically informed analysis critically engages with the existing scholarship on migration and refugee studies, asylum seekers and camp-people, and citizenship and human-rights issue with proposing a new theoretical perspective called "subhuman" life. It could be used for a better understanding of an extreme vulnerability and deep uncertainty of human life apart from the broad spectrum of genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing, homicide and domicide. The idea of "subhuman life" offers a new frame of thought towards an understanding of the life in the struggle for existence and the process of extinction. The book thus offers both an appealing theoretical potential and a solid piece of ethnography regarding refugee situation, stateless people, asylum seekers, transborder movements, and camp people with the case of Rohingya.
Reviews / Votes
Nasir Uddin takes a bold step with the groundbreaking new 'subhuman theory' in this book, which is based on his ethnographic research ... The book provides startling theoretical contributions to the social sciences, including political anthropology and International Relations. * Shuva Das and Leo S. F. Lin, International Affairs * This book is...a good source of understanding the ongoing Rohingya humanitarian crisis from the affected people's own lived experiences, and the way in which the ethnography has been presented makes this study appealing for researchers. * Md Niamot Ali, South Asia Research *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-948935-0 (9780199489350)
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Person
The author is a professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong. He is also the visiting Research Felow at the Department of Refugee Studies, University of Oxford, UK.
Author
Professor of AnthropologyProfessor of Anthropology, University of Chittagong
Content
- Content
- Acknowledgment
- Glossary
- Abbreviation
- List of tables
- List of photographs
- Chapter-one
- Introduction: The Rohingya, their Textual (Re) presentation, and A Contextual Framing
- Chapter-Two
- Who are the Rohingyas? Life through Roshang, Arakan and Rakhine state
- Chapter-Three
- Of Hurting and Hosting: The Rohingyas in the Place of Migration
- Chapter-Four
- State of Stateless People: The struggle for Existence and the Cry for Survival
- Chapter-Five
- The (Re) production of Vulnerability: State in Everyday life of Stateless Rohingyas
- Chapter-Six
- The Story of the 'Subhuman' Life: Untold Pains and Miseries, and Uncertain Futures
- Chapter-Seven
- Theorising 'Subhuman': Treatments of Rohingyas as if lesser than human being
- Chapter-Eight
- Conclusion: Looking forward
- Bibliography
- Appendix
- Index