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Post-colonial and post-partition South Asia, one of the
fastest-growing and yet one of the least integrated regions of the
world, is marked by both optimism and pessimism. This intriguing
dichotomy of strength and weakness, security and insecurity, hope
and fear, connections and disconnects underpins South Asia’s
regionalism conundrum and gives birth to borders and boundaries –
both material and mental – with a complex territoriality. The
Janus-faced nature of South Asian borderlands – the inward
nationalizing impulses entangled with the outward regional
frontier-orientations – is a stark reminder that history of
mobility in this eco-geographical region is much older than the
history of territoriality and colonial cartography and ethnography.
This collection of meticulously researched, theoretically informed,
case studies from South Asia provides useful insights into
bordering, ordering and othering narratives as practices and
performances that are intricately entangled with identity politics
and security discourses. It shows how a sharper focus on
subterranean subregionalism(s), border communities, popular
geopolitics of enmity, and transborder challenges to
sustainability, could open up spaces for new multiple
(re)imaginings of borders at diverse scales and sights including
sub-urban neighbourhoods, school textbooks/cinema and trans-border
conservation initiatives. The chapters in this edited volume have
been contributed by both renowned as well as young emerging
scholars, looking into the borders and boundaries in South Asia.
Each chapter offers new perspectives and insights into themes like
trans-Himalayan borderlands, India-Pakistan physical and mental
borders, Afghanistan-Pakistan border and numerous social boundaries
that we see in everyday South Asia. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Borderlands Studies.
Post-colonial and post-partition South Asia, one of the
fastest-growing and yet one of the least integrated regions of the
world, is marked by both optimism and pessimism. This intriguing
dichotomy of strength and weakness, security and insecurity, hope
and fear, connections and disconnects underpins South Asia's
regionalism conundrum and gives birth to borders and boundaries -
both material and mental - with a complex territoriality. The
Janus-faced nature of South Asian borderlands - the inward
nationalizing impulses entangled with the outward regional
frontier-orientations - is a stark reminder that history of
mobility in this eco-geographical region is much older than the
history of territoriality and colonial cartography and ethnography.
This collection of meticulously researched, theoretically informed,
case studies from South Asia provides useful insights into
bordering, ordering and othering narratives as practices and
performances that are intricately entangled with identity politics
and security discourses. It shows how a sharper focus on
subterranean subregionalism(s), border communities, popular
geopolitics of enmity, and transborder challenges to
sustainability, could open up spaces for new multiple
(re)imaginings of borders at diverse scales and sights including
sub-urban neighbourhoods, school textbooks/cinema and trans-border
conservation initiatives. The chapters in this edited volume have
been contributed by both renowned as well as young emerging
scholars, looking into the borders and boundaries in South Asia.
Each chapter offers new perspectives and insights into themes like
trans-Himalayan borderlands, India-Pakistan physical and mental
borders, Afghanistan-Pakistan border and numerous social boundaries
that we see in everyday South Asia. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Borderlands Studies.
The partition of the Indian subcontinent, the collapse of the
Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the reunification of Germany, the
continuing feud between two Koreas, the Irish peace process, the
case of Israel/Palestine and the lingering division of Cyprus, have
together given rise to a huge body of literature. However, studies
of partitions have usually focused on individual cases. This
innovative volume uses comparative analysis to fill the gap in
partition studies and examines cross-cutting issues such as: *
violence * state formation * union and regional unification *
geopolitics * transition.
The partition of the Indian subcontinent, the collapse of the
Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the reunification of Germany, the
continuing feud between two Koreas, the Irish peace process, the
case of Israel/Palestine and the lingering division of Cyprus, have
together given rise to a huge body of literature. However, studies
of partitions have usually focused on individual cases. This
innovative volume uses comparative analysis to fill the gap in
partition studies and examines cross-cutting issues such as:
* violence
* state formation
* union and regional unification
* geopolitics
* transition.
First published in 2007, this book focuses on the security of sea
lanes of communication. It was a joint publication between the
Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) and the Indian Ocean Research
Group (IORG) and is an important book for three particular reasons.
First, it takes a step forward in identifying key policy themes
that can be applied to interstate cooperation around the Indian
Ocean Region (IOR). Second, the particular theme discussed is not
only central to the economic well-being of Indian Ocean countries,
but also to many of the world's most important trading states, and
finally the various discussions within the book raise a host of
issues to which regional as well as non-regional policy-makers
should give serious consideration.
First published in 2005, this book is the second volume produced by
the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG). The Indian Ocean Region has
become increasingly important to discussions on energy security,
not only because of the critical importance of regional states as
energy suppliers, but also because of the essential role of the
Ocean as an energy route. The main purpose of this volume is to
provide an elaborate and critical evaluation of some of these
issues and their implications for regions outside the Indian Ocean.
First published in 2004, this book is the inaugural volume of the
Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG). The volume emphasizes the
complexity and historical and contemporary geopolitical
significance of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). It also propagates
the necessity for increased intra-regional cooperation.
The 2 volumes include 'Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and
Security in the Indian Ocean' and 'Energy Security and the Indian
Ocean Region'. Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and Security
in the Indian Ocean- First published in 2004, this book is the
inaugural volume of the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG). The
volume emphasizes the complexity and historical and contemporary
geopolitical significance of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). It also
propagates the necessity for increased intra-regional cooperation.
Energy Security and the Indian Ocean Region- First published in
2005, this book is the second volume produced by the Indian Ocean
Research Group (IORG). The Indian Ocean Region has become
increasingly important to discussions on energy security, not only
because of the critical importance of regional states as energy
suppliers, but also because of the essential role of the Ocean as
an energy route. The main purpose of this volume is to provide an
elaborate and critical evaluation of some of these issues and their
implications for regions outside the Indian Ocean.
First published in 2005, this book is the second volume produced by
the Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG). The Indian Ocean Region has
become increasingly important to discussions on energy security,
not only because of the critical importance of regional states as
energy suppliers, but also because of the essential role of the
Ocean as an energy route. The main purpose of this volume is to
provide an elaborate and critical evaluation of some of these
issues and their implications for regions outside the Indian Ocean.
The book is written in the backdrop of the environmental impacts of
and future requirements from the natural environment for rapid
economic growth that has characterized recent economic history of
China and India, especially over the past few decades. The
environmental impacts of such rapid economic changes have been,
more frequently than otherwise, degrading in character.
Environmental impacts of economic activities create degraded
natural ecosystems by over utilization of nature's provisioning
ecosystem services (from Himalaya to the Ocean), as well, by the
use of the natural environment as sink for dumping of unmarketable
products or unused inputs of economic activities. Such processes
affect wide range of ecosystem processes on which the natural
environment including human population depend on. Critical
perspectives cast by various chapters in this book draw attention
to the various ways in which space and power interact to produce
diverse geographies of sustainability in a globalizing world. They
also address the questions such as who decides what kind of a
spatial arrangement of political power is needed for sustaining the
environment. Who stands to gain (or lose) what, when, where, and
why from certain geographical areas being demarcated as
ecologically unique, fragile and vulnerable environments? Whose
needs and values are being catered to by a given ecosystem service?
What is the scope for critical inquiry into the ways in which the
environment is imagined, represented and resisted in both
geopolitical struggles and everyday life? The book provides
insights to both academics from diverse disciplines and policy
makers, civil society actors interested in mutual exchange of
knowledge between China and India.
The book is written in the backdrop of the environmental impacts of
and future requirements from the natural environment for rapid
economic growth that has characterized recent economic history of
China and India, especially over the past few decades. The
environmental impacts of such rapid economic changes have been,
more frequently than otherwise, degrading in character.
Environmental impacts of economic activities create degraded
natural ecosystems by over utilization of nature's provisioning
ecosystem services (from Himalaya to the Ocean), as well, by the
use of the natural environment as sink for dumping of unmarketable
products or unused inputs of economic activities. Such processes
affect wide range of ecosystem processes on which the natural
environment including human population depend on. Critical
perspectives cast by various chapters in this book draw attention
to the various ways in which space and power interact to produce
diverse geographies of sustainability in a globalizing world. They
also address the questions such as who decides what kind of a
spatial arrangement of political power is needed for sustaining the
environment. Who stands to gain (or lose) what, when, where, and
why from certain geographical areas being demarcated as
ecologically unique, fragile and vulnerable environments? Whose
needs and values are being catered to by a given ecosystem service?
What is the scope for critical inquiry into the ways in which the
environment is imagined, represented and resisted in both
geopolitical struggles and everyday life? The book provides
insights to both academics from diverse disciplines and policy
makers, civil society actors interested in mutual exchange of
knowledge between China and India.
First published in 2007, this book focuses on the security of sea
lanes of communication. It was a joint publication between the
Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) and the Indian Ocean Research
Group (IORG) and is an important book for three particular reasons.
First, it takes a step forward in identifying key policy themes
that can be applied to interstate cooperation around the Indian
Ocean Region (IOR). Second, the particular theme discussed is not
only central to the economic well-being of Indian Ocean countries,
but also to many of the world's most important trading states, and
finally the various discussions within the book raise a host of
issues to which regional as well as non-regional policy-makers
should give serious consideration.
Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical
politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate
change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies,
domination and militarised 'climate security'.
Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical
politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate
change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies,
domination and militarised 'climate security'.
First published in 2004, this book is the inaugural volume of the
Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG) and is based on a selection of
papers presented at the IORG launch in Chandigarh in November 2002.
The volume emphasizes the complexity and historical and
contemporary geopolitical significance of the Indian Ocean Region
(IOR). It also propagates the necessity for increased
intra-regional cooperation, especially in terms of economic and
environmental security, maritime boundaries, sea lane security and
ocean management, in the spirit of open regionalism, in order to
ensure a more secure IOR. In addition, the volume initiates an
agenda for future social science policy-orientated research. The
book should be of particular interest to policy-makers, business
people and academics, as well as citizens of the IOR.
The book aims to further the debate on the impacts of fisheries
policies in the Indian Ocean Region in order to facilitate a new
regional policy direction. A key argument of the volume is that
ecologically sustainable and socially just development and
management of Indian Ocean fisheries require a paradigm shift in
the perceptions and policies of major stakeholders. A central
policy challenge is to identify a collective regional interest for
fisheries and accordingly the development of integrated management
policies that link ecology and society and which incorporate
individuals, communities, agencies, states and regimes into a
holistic cooperative endeavour. Successful ocean governance
therefore requires greater inter-state and inter-agency
consultation and cooperation, an improvement in linking national
initiatives to local action, increased participation of local
government and local communities and the enhancement of local
capability. In order to achieve this overall goal requires either
the enhancement of existing regional institutions or the creation
of a new regional body.
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