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Sensitive space : fragmented territory at the India-Bangladesh border / Jason Cons.
Van Pelt Library DS450.B3 C66 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cons, Jason, author.
- Series:
- Global South Asia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- India--Foreign relations--Bangladesh.
- India.
- Bangladesh--Foreign relations--India.
- Bangladesh.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Entering Sensitive Space
- Introduction: The Fragments and Their Nation(s) 5
- 1 Territorial Anxieties: Uncertain Land, Unstable Territory, and Unsettled Rule at the Border 24
- Part 2 Sensitive Histories
- 2 Amplified Territory: Transforming the Enclaves from "Border Problems" into "Sensitive Spaces" 45
- 3 Histories of Belonging(s): Negotiating Dahagram's Political Community 68
- 4 Contesting Boundaries, Claiming Territory: Counter-Narratives of Belonging, Identity, and Power 88
- Part 3 Life and Rule in a Sensitive Place
- 5 Territorial Corrosion: Boundary Surveys, Symbolic Developments, and Border Management in Sensitive Space 109
- 6 Contingent Terrain: Conjuncture, Movement, and Agrarian Change in Dahagram 132.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295995526
- 0295995521
- OCLC:
- 946051063
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