Sensitive Space : Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border

Jason Cons

ISBN 10: 0295744243 / ISBN 13: 9780295744247

Edité par University Of Washington Press Mär 2019, 2019

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Neuware - Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces in which national security, belonging, and control are shown in sharp relief. Through ethnographic and historical analysis, Jason Cons argues that these spaces are key locations for rethinking the production of territory in South Asia today. Sensitive Space examines the ways that these areas mark a range of anxieties over territory, land, and national survival and lead us to consider why certain places emerge as contentious, and often violent, spaces at the margins of nation and state.Offering lessons for the study of enclaves, lines of control, restricted areas, gray spaces, and other geographic anomalies, Sensitive Space develops frameworks for understanding the persistent confusions of land, community, and belonging in border zones. It further provides ways to think past the categories of sovereignty and identity to reimagine territory in South Asia and beyond.

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• Titre: Sensitive Space : Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
• Éditeur: University Of Washington Press Mär 2019
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0295744243
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295744247
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 224 L x 145 H x 18 P (en millimètres) 224 millimètres de largeur par 145 millimètres de hauteur par 18 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 227 grammes

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Synopsis

Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces in which national security, belonging, and control are shown in sharp relief. Through ethnographic and historical analysis, Jason Cons argues that these spaces are key locations for rethinking the production of territory in South Asia today. Sensitive Space examines the ways that these areas mark a range of anxieties over territory, land, and national survival and lead us to consider why certain places emerge as contentious, and often violent, spaces at the margins of nation and state.

Offering lessons for the study of enclaves, lines of control, restricted areas, gray spaces, and other geographic anomalies, Sensitive Space develops frameworks for understanding the persistent confusions of land, community, and belonging in border zones. It further provides ways to think past the categories of sovereignty and identity to reimagine territory in South Asia and beyond.

À propos des auteurs

Jason Cons is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border (Washington, 2016) and co-editor of Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia (Wiley, 2019).

Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.

Padma Kaimal is Batza Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University. She is the author of Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Association for Asian Studies, 2013) and Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space (Washington, 2021).

Anand A. Yang is professor of international studies and history at the University of Washington. He is coeditor of Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (Hawai'i, 2005), coeditor of Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World (Oxford, 2017), and author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (California, 2021).