Sovereign Atonement : Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border / Azmeary Ferdoush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferdoush, Md. Azmeary, author.

Series:

South Asia in the social sciences

South Asia in the Social Sciences Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--India.

Citizenship.

Bangladesh--Foreign relations--India.

Bangladesh.

India--Foreign relations--Bangladesh.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Drawing on the experiences in the former border enclaves of India inside Bangladesh, Sovereign Atonement provides a rich ethnographic reading of the role of the state and the sovereign in excluding and including the same population and spaces within its mandate. It focuses on the aspects of (non-)citizenship, sovereign exclusion and resistance, territory, nationalism, land and property relations, rules of governance, and (post-colonial) state-making in Bangladesh. It demonstrates that enclaves remain key locations to (re)think sovereign violence. It focuses on the crucial moment of enclave exchange in 2015 and subsequent periods when numerous acts of sovereign in/exclusion and production of legible state spaces were at their peak. The unique temporality of the work allows glimpses into a rare contrast of experiences of "bare lives" residing in a "state of exception." Through its analysis, the book emerges not only as a temporal analysis of sovereignty and citizenship, but also as a lens to explain why and how the sovereign chose a specific category of citizens over others for extraordinary treatments, both in projecting violence and in extending exceptional privileges. The book addresses territorial exchange, sovereign rule, and state-making in the border enclaves by crossing boundaries between geography, anthropology, sociology, and area studies"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction : remnants, nations, and the sovereign

Sovereign atonement

From "sensitive" to "symbolic" spaces

Land and citizenship as technologies of territory

Everyday governance : ambiguity, accountability, and abundance

Infrastructure, belonging, and the state

Refusal and tolerance

Epilogue

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009423335

1009423339

9781009423342

1009423347