Violence in South Asia : contemporary perspectives /

"This volume explores new perspectives on contemporary forms of violence in South Asia. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and case studies, it examines the infiltration of violence at the societal level and affords a comparative regional analysis of its historical, cultural and geopolitical origin...

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Other Authors: Malreddy, Pavan Kumar, 1977- (Editor), Purakayastha, Anindya Sekhar (Editor), Heidemann, Birte (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
New York : 2019.
Edition:First.
Subjects:
Political violence > South Asia.
Violence > South Asia.
South Asia > Social conditions.
South Asia > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Genealogies of Violence in South Asia / Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann
  • Part I. Structural Violence: Ideologies, Hierarchies and Symbolic Acts: 2. Neither War Nor Peace: Political Order and Post-Conflict Violence in Nepal / Julia Strasheim
  • 3. Caste Violence: Hate Speech or Injurious Acts? / K. Satyanarayana
  • 4. The Representational Burden of Ethno-Nationalist Violence in Sri Lanka / Harshana Rambukwella
  • 5. Mapping Extraordinary Measures: Militarisation and Political Resistance in Kashmir / Mohammed Sirajuddeen
  • Part II. Gendered Violence: Rape, Misogyny and Feminist Discourse: 6. Sex, Rape, Representation: Cultures of Sexual Violence in Contemporary India / Karen Gabriel
  • 7. Biographies of Violence and the Violence of Biographies: Writing about Rape in Pakistan / Shazia Sadaf
  • 8. Violence in Public Spaces: Security and Agency of Women in West Bengal / Sanchali Sarkar
  • Part III. Outsourced Violence: Mobs, Insurgents and Private Armies: 9. Violence and Perilous Trans-Borderal Journeys: The Rohingyas as the No-Where-Nation Precariat / Mursed Alam
  • 10. India's Lynchings: Ordinary Crimes, Rough Justice or Command Hate Crimes? / Harsh Mander
  • 11. Violence, Neoliberal State and the Dispossession of Adivasis in Central India / Ashok Kumbamu
  • Part IV. Cultures of Violence: Fractured Histories, Fissured Communities: 12. Afghanistan: Military Occupation, Violence and Ethnocracy / Wahid Razi and James Goodman
  • 13. Social Roots of Insurgency in Kashmir / Idreas Khandy
  • 14. Islamist Attacks against Secular Bloggers in Bangladesh / Ryan Shaffer
  • 15. Democratic Voice and the Paradox of Nepal Bandhas / Sally Carlton
  • Index.

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