A thousand tiny cuts : mobility and security across the Bangladesh-India borderlands / Sahana Ghosh

• Superior document: Atelier: ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century 10
• VerfasserIn: Ghosh, Sahana 1984-
• Place / Publishing House: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Atelier: ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century 10
• Classification: 15.77 - Indischer Subkontinent; 73.00 - Ethnologie: Allgemeines
• Physical Description: viii, 286 Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
• Notes: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 255-280; Index

"Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in the borderlands of northern Bangladesh and eastern India, A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands and shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the meaning and management of threat in relation to mobility. It recasts a singular focus on border fences and border crossings to show, instead, that bordering is an expansive and accumulative reordering of relations of value. Devaluations-of agrarian land and crops, borderland youth undesirable as brides and grooms in their respective national hinterlands, disconnection of regional infrastructures, and social and physical geographies disordered by surveillance-proliferate as the costs of militarization across this ostensibly "friendly" border. Through a textured ethnography of the gendered political economy of mobility across a postcolonial borderlands in South Asia, this ambitious book challenges anthropological understanding of the violence of bordering, migration and citizenship, and transnational inequalities that are based on Euro-American borders and security regimes"--