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This book forwards Assam (and Northeast India) as a specific
location for studying operations of gendered power in multi-ethnic,
conflict-habituated geopolitical peripheries globally. In the
shifting and relational margins of such peripheral societies, power
and agency are constantly negotiated and in flux. Notions of
masculinity are redefined in an interlaced environment of
militarization, hyper-masculinization, and gendered violence. These
interconnections inform victimhood and agency among the most
vulnerable marginalized constituencies - namely, women and
migrants. By centering the marginalized in its inquiry, the book
analyzes obstacles to achieving positive, organic peace based on
cooperation and mutual healing. The tools used to perpetuate an
endless cycle of violence that makes conflict a habit - a way of
life - are identified in order to enable resistance against them
from within the margins. Such resistance must be based on
reflexivity and strategic, cautious radicalism. This involves
critically interrogating the inherent connections between
engendered pasts and feminist futures, local changes and global
contexts, as well as between small, incremental changes and big
shifts impacting entire societies, nations, and global orders. This
book will be of much interest to students of ethnic conflict,
conflict resolution, feminist peace, and Asian/South Asian
politics.
Diverging from reductionist studies of Northeast India and its
multifarious conflicts, this book presents an exclusive and
intricate, empirical and theoretical study of Assam as a conflict
zone. It traces the genesis and evolution of the ethnic and
nationalistic politics in the state, and explores how this gave
birth to nativist and militant movements. It further discusses how
the State's responses seem to have exacerbated rather than
mitigated the conflict situation. The author proposes ethnic
reconciliation as an effective way out of the current chaos, and
finds the key in examining the relations between three communities
(Axamiya, Bodo and Koch) from Bodoland, the most violent region of
Assam. She stresses upon the need to redefine 'Axamiya', an issue
of much discord in Assam's ethnic politics since the modern-day
formulation of the Axamiya nation. The book will prove essential to
scholars and students of peace and conflict studies, sociology,
political science, and history, as also to policy-makers and those
interested in Northeast India.
Diverging from reductionist studies of Northeast India and its
multifarious conflicts, this book presents an exclusive and
intricate, empirical and theoretical study of Assam as a conflict
zone. It traces the genesis and evolution of the ethnic and
nationalistic politics in the state, and explores how this gave
birth to nativist and militant movements. It further discusses how
the State's responses seem to have exacerbated rather than
mitigated the conflict situation. The author proposes ethnic
reconciliation as an effective way out of the current chaos, and
finds the key in examining the relations between three communities
(Axamiya, Bodo and Koch) from Bodoland, the most violent region of
Assam. She stresses upon the need to redefine 'Axamiya', an issue
of much discord in Assam's ethnic politics since the modern-day
formulation of the Axamiya nation. The book will prove essential to
scholars and students of peace and conflict studies, sociology,
political science, and history, as also to policy-makers and those
interested in Northeast India.
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