A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a
connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of
fieldwork in northern Bangladesh and eastern India, Sahana Ghosh
shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the making
and management of threat in relation to mobility. Rather than
focusing solely on border fences and border crossings, she
demonstrates that bordering reorders relations of value. The cost
of militarization across this ostensibly "friendly" border is
devaluation—of agrarian land and crops, of borderland youth
undesirable as brides and grooms in their respective national
hinterlands, of regional infrastructures now disconnected, and of
social and physical geographies disordered by surveillance. Through
a textured ethnography of the gendered political economy of
mobility across postcolonial borderlands in South Asia, this
ambitious book challenges anthropological understandings of the
violence of bordering, migration and citizenship, and transnational
inequalities that are based on Euro-American borders and security
regimes.
General
| Imprint: |
University of California Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century, 10 |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Sahana Ghosh
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
296 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-39572-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-520-39572-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780520395725 |
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