A thousand tiny cuts : mobility and security across the Bangladesh-India borderlands / Sahana Ghosh
"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...
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Superior document: | Atelier: ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century 10 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] ©2023 |
Utgivningsår: | 2023 |
Språk: | English |
Serie: | Atelier: ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century
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Classification: | 15.77 - Indischer Subkontinent 73.00 - Ethnologie: Allgemeines |
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Fysisk beskrivning: | viii, 286 Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten |
Anmärkningar: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 255-280; Index |
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Sammanfattning: | "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"-- |
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ISBN: | 9780520395725 9780520395732 |
ac_no: | AC17053739 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Sahana Ghosh |