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This book is a study of the transformations in Punjab created by
biotechnological revolutions, economic restructuring, persistent
migrations, and political upheaval in the late 20th century. The
sacred centre at Amritsar, the transnational settlement of Southall
and a Doaba village form the terrain for this - three sites that
can seen as metonymic spaces of identity that transcend geographic
boundaries, and form the structure of this book. Relations between
the rural, the sacred and the transnational, fostered through
migration, marriage and material exchange, existed well before
1984. After 1984, however, and through the violent decades of the
militancy period, these three locations became connected via the
circulation of political ideologies, violent deaths, financial aid,
a sense of disaffection, and the migration of men. Analysis of the
linkages between transnational migration and religious revival is a
key theme of this study. Conversely, the enhanced engagements of
the diaspora with homeland politics became a source of support and
created sanctuary spaces for political asylum seekers and
transnational migrant labour. Re-analysing existing material and
drawing on fieldwork-based interviews, as well as local history
archives, the book presents a different framework to analyse the
politics and social history of Punjab.
This book is a study of the transformations in Punjab created by
biotechnological revolutions, economic restructuring, persistent
migrations, and political upheaval in the late 20th century. The
sacred centre at Amritsar, the transnational settlement of Southall
and a Doaba village form the terrain for this - three sites that
can seen as metonymic spaces of identity that transcend geographic
boundaries, and form the structure of this book. Relations between
the rural, the sacred and the transnational, fostered through
migration, marriage and material exchange, existed well before
1984. After 1984, however, and through the violent decades of the
militancy period, these three locations became connected via the
circulation of political ideologies, violent deaths, financial aid,
a sense of disaffection, and the migration of men. Analysis of the
linkages between transnational migration and religious revival is a
key theme of this study. Conversely, the enhanced engagements of
the diaspora with homeland politics became a source of support and
created sanctuary spaces for political asylum seekers and
transnational migrant labour. Re-analysing existing material and
drawing on fieldwork-based interviews, as well as local history
archives, the book presents a different framework to analyse the
politics and social history of Punjab.
This book explores a traumatic event known throughout India as
Operation Bluestar. During the Operation, the Indian army entered
one of Sikhism's most sacred shrines, the Darbar Sahib in the city
of Amritsar, to dislodge militants who had taken shelter within.
Among the many who died during Operation Bluestar was the militant
leader, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who is now remembered and
commemorated as a martyr. Sikhs revere their martyrs. Images and
religious souvenirs of martyrs share space with posters and
portraiture of the ten Sikh Gurus. The visual idiom is a key form
of remembering the modern martyrs of Operation Bluestar. Despite
the emotive imagery, a tension exists between the need to forget
the violence of militancy and remembrance of martyrs. It is this
tension that shapes accounts of "what happened" in the city of
Amritsar in 1984 before and after Operation Bluestar. But "what
happened" is an account that changes over time and between
storytellers. Each account might have a little omission, a small
part that is overlooked, ignored, or sometimes laid to rest. Memory
has the quality of bringing the past into the present, but with
deletions that suit the storyteller and audience. This book
traverses the terrain of memory, hollowed out by little bits of
forgetting.
The theme of the book is visualizing migrant lives and livelihoods.
It is a book of photographs taken in the field by the Principal
Investigators and the researchers in Guwahati and Jalandhar, over
the course of the field based research funded by UK's Economic and
Social Research Council (ESRC) - Indian Council of Social Sciences
Research (ICSSR), for the Collaborative Project "From the Margins:
Exploring Low Income Migrant Workers Access to Basic Services". The
book will also include photographs taken by the migrants about
their own lives and work. These latter images emerged from
workshops conducted with migrants, organized by Dr. Jeevan Sharma
[PI University of Edinburgh] Prof. Anuj Kapilashrami [Co-PI,
University of Essex], and Ms. Anurita Hazarika of NEN, at the two
research sites, Guwahati, Assam and Jalandhar, Punjab.
"Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities" features an
exciting collection of contributions from some of today's leading
thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities, and
development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the
structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current
development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately
engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on
both men's and women's lives. The book calls for renewed engagement
in efforts to challenge and change stereotypes of men, to dismantle
the structural barriers to gender equality, and to mobilize men to
build new alliances with women's movements and other movements for
social and gender justice.
"Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities" features an
exciting collection of contributions from some of today's leading
thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities, and
development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the
structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current
development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately
engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on
both men's and women's lives. The book calls for renewed engagement
in efforts to challenge and change stereotypes of men, to dismantle
the structural barriers to gender equality, and to mobilize men to
build new alliances with women's movements and other movements for
social and gender justice.
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