Sensitive Space Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border / Jason Cons

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cons, Jason, author.

Series:

Global South Asia.

Global South Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic relations.

India.

Bangladesh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 2016.

Summary:

Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces in which national security, belonging, and control are shown in sharp relief. Through ethnographic and historical analysis, Jason Cons argues that these spaces are key locations for rethinking the production of territory in South Asia today. Sensitive Space examines the ways that these areas mark a range of anxieties over territory, land, and national survival and lead us to consider why certain places emerge as contentious, and often violent, spaces at the margins of nation and state. Offering lessons for the study of enclaves, lines of control, restricted areas, gray spaces, and other geographic anomalies, Sensitive Space develops frameworks for understanding the persistent confusions of land, community, and belonging in border zones. It further provides ways to think past the categories of sovereignty and identity to reimagine territory in South Asia and beyond.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface: Transformations, Exchanges, and Sensitive Space; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Key Terms; Part One. Entering Sensitive Space; Introduction: The Fragments and Their Nation(s); 1 Territorial Anxieties: Uncertain Land, Unstable Territory, and Unsettled Rule at the Border; Part Two. Sensitive Histories; 2 Amplified Territory: Transforming the Enclaves from "Border Problems" into "Sensitive Spaces"; 3 Histories of Belonging(s): Negotiating Dahagram's Political Community; 4 Contesting Boundaries, Claiming Territory: Counter-Narratives of Belonging, Identity, and Power

Part Three. Life and Rule in a Sensitive Place5 Territorial Corrosion: Boundary Surveys, Symbolic Developments, and Border Management in Sensitive Space; 6 Contingent Terrain: Conjuncture, Movement, and Agrarian Change in Dahagram; Conclusion: Whither Sensitive Space?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295806549

0295806540

OCLC:

941997455