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Boundaries Undermined - the Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border (Hardcover)
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Boundaries Undermined - the Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border (Hardcover)
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When anthropologist Delwar Hussain arrived in a remote coal mining
village on the Bangladesh/India border to research the security
fence India is building around its neighbour, he discovered more
about the globalised world than he had expected. The present
narrative of the Bangladesh/ India border is one of increasing
violence. Not so long ago, it was the site of a monumental
modernist master-plan, symbolic of a larger optimism which was to
revolutionise post-colonial nations around the world. Today this
vision and what it gave rise to lies in spectacular ruin; the
innards of the decomposing industrial past are scattered across the
borderlands. The dream of a top- down, organised state and society
has been replaced by a vibrant, market determined, cross-border
coal industry that has little respect for the past, people or the
environment. In keeping with these changes, there are new
opportunities and prospects too. Social and intimate lives have
transformed in unexpected and hopeful ways. While the book explores
the relationship between those with a vision for the future and
those without, it ultimately seeks to shed light on the communities
and places that pay the highest price for the present need to
develop. By focusing on the peripheries, the book at once gets to
the contradictions at the heart of the neoliberal condition.
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