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People's Peace lays a solid foundation for the argument that global
peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects.
Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on
people's daily lives across the world as they struggle to create
peace despite escalating political violence. The volume's focus on
local and ordinary efforts highlights peace as a lived experience
that goes beyond national and international peace efforts. In
addition, the contributors' emphasis on the role of religion as a
catalyst for peace moves away from the usual depiction of religion
as a source of divisiveness and conflict. Spanning a range of
humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume provide case
studies of individuals defying authority or overcoming cultural
stigmas to create peaceful relations in their communities. From
investigating how ancient Jews established communal justice to
exploring how black and white citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, are
working to achieve racial harmony, the contributors find that
people are acting independently of governments and institutions to
identify everyday methods of coexisting with others. In putting
these various approaches in dialogue with each other, this volume
produces a theoretical intervention that shifts the study of peace
away from national and international organizations and institutions
toward locating successful peaceful efforts in the everyday lives
of individuals.
People's Peace lays a solid foundation for the argument that global
peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects.
Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on
people's daily lives across the world as they struggle to create
peace despite escalating political violence. The volume's focus on
local and ordinary efforts highlights peace as a lived experience
that goes beyond national and international peace efforts. In
addition, the contributors' emphasis on the role of religion as a
catalyst for peace moves away from the usual depiction of religion
as a source of divisiveness and conflict. Spanning a range of
humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume provide case
studies of individuals defying authority or overcoming cultural
stigmas to create peaceful relations in their communities. From
investigating how ancient Jews established communal justice to
exploring how black and white citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, are
working to achieve racial harmony, the contributors find that
people are acting independently of governments and institutions to
identify everyday methods of coexisting with others. In putting
these various approaches in dialogue with each other, this volume
produces a theoretical intervention that shifts the study of peace
away from national and international organizations and institutions
toward locating successful peaceful efforts in the everyday lives
of individuals.
How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Muslim world? This
question is the predominant focus for global analysis today, but
its debate frequently ignores the cultural and social complexity of
the Muslim world, reducing it into a system of states and select
actors. This book addresses such a failing by exploring how the
everyday interactions of women, in accordance with Islamic personal
ethics, can offer the world a new interpretation of peace. In
particular, it focuses on the women in Islamic societies, from Aceh
to Bosnia, Morocco to Bangladesh, initiating a dialogue on the role
of these women in peacemaking. This concentration upon the complex
issues of the everyday both enables a detailed exploration of how
people conceptualise peace and opens up new frameworks for conflict
resolution. The discussions that emerge lead to a critical
questioning of assumptions about peace as a state policy and
cessation of violence. Drawing upon original research from
different parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia,
including Iran, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt and
Sudan, the contributors offer a refreshing new look at Muslim women
as peacemakers, challenging any assumptions of Islam as an
inherently violent religion. Such a timely work provides new and
important analyses on the role of Muslim women in forging new
pathways of peace in the contemporary world.
Northeast India: A Place of Relations focuses on encounters and
experiences between people and cultures, the human and the
non-human world, allowing for building of new relationships of
friendship and amity in the region. The twelve essays in this
volume explore the possibility of a new search enabling a
'discovery' of the lived and the loved world of Northeast India
from within. The volume employs a variety of perspectives and
methodological approaches - literary, historical, anthropological,
interpretative politics, and an analytical study of contemporary
issues, engaging the people, cultures, and histories in the
Northeast with a new outlook. In the study, the region emerges as a
place of new happenings in which there is the possibility of
continuous expansion of the horizon of history and issues of
current relevance facilitating new voices and narratives that
circulate and create bonding in the borderland of South, East, and
Southeast Asia.
How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Muslim world? This
question is the predominant focus for global analysis today, but
its debate frequently ignores the cultural and social complexity of
the Muslim world, reducing it into a system of states and select
actors. This book addresses such a failing by exploring how the
everyday interactions of women, in accordance with Islamic personal
ethics, can offer the world a new interpretation of peace. In
particular, it focuses on the women in Islamic societies, from Aceh
to Bosnia, Morocco to Bangladesh, initiating a dialogue on the role
of these women in peacemaking. This concentration upon the complex
issues of the everyday both enables a detailed exploration of how
people conceptualise peace and opens up new frameworks for conflict
resolution. The discussions that emerge lead to a critical
questioning of assumptions about peace as a state policy and
cessation of violence. Drawing upon original research from
different parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia,
including Iran, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt and
Sudan, the contributors offer a refreshing new look at Muslim women
as peacemakers, challenging any assumptions of Islam as an
inherently violent religion. Such a timely work provides new and
important analyses on the role of Muslim women in forging new
pathways of peace in the contemporary world.
Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the
war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is
remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents
a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is
acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act of betrayal by the
Bengalis. None of these nationalist histories convey the human cost
of the war. Pakistani and Indian soldiers and Bengali militiamen
raped and tortured women on a mass scale. In "Women, War, and the
Making of Bangladesh," survivors tell their stories, revealing the
power of speaking that deemed unspeakable. They talk of
victimization--of rape, loss of status and citizenship, and the
"war babies" born after 1971. The women also speak as agents of
change, as social workers, caregivers, and wartime fighters. In the
conclusion, men who terrorized women during the war recollect their
wartime brutality and their postwar efforts to achieve a sense of
humanity. "Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh" sheds new
light on the relationship among nation, history, and gender in
postcolonial South Asia.
Fragmented Memories is a beautifully rendered exploration of how,
during the 1990s, socially and economically marginalized people in
the northeastern Indian state of Assam sought to produce a past on
which to base a distinctive contemporary identity recognized within
late-twentieth-century India. Yasmin Saikia describes how groups of
Assamese identified themselves as Tai-Ahom-a people with a glorious
past stretching back to the invasion of what is now Assam by Ahom
warriors in the thirteenth century. In her account of the 1990s
Tai-Ahom identity movement, Saikia considers the problem of
competing identities in India, the significance of place and
culture, and the outcome of the memory-building project of the
Tai-Ahom.Assamese herself, Saikia lived in several different
Tai-Ahom villages between 1994 and 1996. She spoke with political
activists, intellectuals, militant leaders, shamans, and students
and observed and participated in Tai-Ahom religious, social, and
political events. She read Tai-Ahom sacred texts and did archival
research-looking at colonial documents and government reports-in
Calcutta, New Delhi, and London. In Fragmented Memories, Saikia
reveals the different narratives relating to the Tai-Ahom as told
by the postcolonial Indian government, British colonists, and
various texts reaching back to the thirteenth century. She shows
how Tai-Ahom identity is practiced in Assam and also in Thailand.
Revealing how the "dead" history of Tai-Ahom has been transformed
into living memory to demand rights of citizenship, Fragmented
Memories is a landmark history told from the periphery of the
Indian nation.
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