Borders, histories, existences : gender and beyond

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Borders, histories, existences : gender and beyond

Paula Banerjee

SAGE, 2010

  • hbk.

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Formerly CIP Uk

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index

収録内容

  • Aliens in the colonial world
  • Borders as unsettled markers : the Sino-Indian border
  • The line of control : Kashmir
  • Circles of insecurity : the border people
  • Negotiating differences : the Indian State and its women in the borderlands
  • Mobile diseases and the border
  • Border laws and conflicts in North-east India

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内容説明

This is an insightful historical work on borders and bordered existences, with special emphasis on the gender dimensions of these existences. The author argues that the experiences of women living on borders and in borderlands are definitive of those of the vulnerable communities who bear the brunt of the complex border and security issues. The conditions of migrant women, women peace campaigners, and victims of human trafficking and mobile diseases are presented as markers of bordered existences. Their history is one of negotiations with structures of control, leading to insecurity, subversion, endurance and a different kind of existence. Thus, this book adopts a critical feminist history angle. Borders, Histories, Existences: Gender and Beyond contends that borders are, by definition, lines of inclusion and exclusion established by the state. It analyses how states construct borders and try to make them static and rigid and how bordered existences, such as women, migrant workers, victims of human trafficking, etc., destabilise the rigid constructs. It explores the political conditions that have made borders problematic in post-colonial South Asia and how these borders have become regions of extreme control or violence. The book contains new research data and original theories and would provide crucial information to those studying colonial and post-colonial history, politics and international relations, South Asia studies and sociology.

目次

Introduction: Histories and Historians of Borders PART ONE: BORDERS AND THEIR PASTS Aliens in the Colonial World Borders as Unsettled Markers: The Sino-Indian Border The Line of Control: Kashmir PART TWO: LIFE ON THE BORDER: CIRCLES OF INSECURITY The Border People Negotiating Differences: The Indian State and its Women in the Borderlands Mobile Diseases and the Border PART THREE: LAW AND THE BORDER Border Laws and Conflicts in North-east India Epilogue Bibliography Index

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