Borderland Anxieties: Shifting Understandings of Gender, Place and Identity at the India-Burma Border

Author:   Matthew Wilkinson ,  Willem van Schendel ,  Tina Harris
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
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Pages:   160
Publication Date:   10 July 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that is emerging from decades of armed conflict. In the wake of Nagaland’s conflict, liberalization and an ‘opening up’ of the state to new connections and flows take place alongside ongoing militarization, nationalist insurgency, and political unrest. Nagaland’s complex peace-conflict continuum has encouraged a reordering of possibilities for men and for women in the state, but also, attempts to maintain fundamental social roles that are seen as defining an ethnic group, as foundations of identity, and for many as uncompromisable. In exploring the complex dynamics of peace, conflict, and tension in Nagaland, Borderland Anxieties offers a window to understanding how gender, politics and anxiety intersect in a borderland state experiencing rapid social, political, and economic changes.

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Author:   Matthew Wilkinson ,  Willem van Schendel ,  Tina Harris
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:  

9789463729789


ISBN 10:   946372978
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   10 July 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Part 1: Periphery 1. ‘The Nagaland State Co-operative Bank Ltd. Welcome You to Nagaland’ 2. Becoming a Borderland 3. Legacies of Conflict Part 2: Proximity 4. Nagaland Opening Up 5. ‘Spinsters and Divorced Women’ 6. New Politics of Gender at the Border Conclusion References Closing

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Dr. Matthew Wilkinson is an ethnographer with a special focus on frontiers, borderlands, and liberalization in Asia and South Asia. His research spans a wide range of specialties, but centres on processes of rupture and disruption in complex and unsettled areas. Dr. Wilkinson has a special interest in unpacking ‘messy’ social and political dynamics associated with peacebuilding, development, and liberalization in India and Bangladesh. Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

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