Borderland Anxieties: Shifting Understandings of Gender, Place and Identity at the India-Burma Border

Matthew Wilkinson

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2023

Borderland Anxieties

Shifting Understandings of Gender, Place and Identity at the India-Burma Border

Matthew Wilkinson
In collaboration with: Willem Schendel and Tina Harris

Volume 19 in the series Asian Borderlands

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048557035

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About this book

Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that is emerging from decades of armed conflict. In the wake of Nagaland’s conflict, liberalization and an ‘opening up’ of the state to new connections and flows take place alongside ongoing militarization, nationalist insurgency, and political unrest. Nagaland’s complex peace-conflict continuum has encouraged a reordering of possibilities for men and for women in the state, but also, attempts to maintain fundamental social roles that are seen as defining an ethnic group, as foundations of identity, and for many as uncompromisable. In exploring the complex dynamics of peace, conflict, and tension in Nagaland, Borderland Anxieties offers a window to understanding how gender, politics and anxiety intersect in a borderland state experiencing rapid social, political, and economic changes.

Author / Editor information

Wilkinson Matthew :

Dr. Matthew Wilkinson is an ethnographer with a special focus on frontiers, borderlands, and liberalization in Asia and South Asia. His research spans a wide range of specialties, but centres on processes of rupture and disruption in complex and unsettled areas. Dr. Wilkinson has a special interest in unpacking ‘messy’ social and political dynamics associated with peacebuilding, development, and liberalization in India and Bangladesh.Schendel Willem :

Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Part 1: Periphery
1. ‘The Nagaland State Co-operative Bank Ltd. Welcome You to Nagaland’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Becoming a Borderland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. Legacies of Conflict Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Part 2: Proximity
4. Nagaland Opening Up Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. ‘Spinsters and Divorced Women’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
6. New Politics of Gender at the Border Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Closing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 160
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
Keywords: Masculinity; Marginality; Borderland; Frontier; Zomia

eBook

Published: July 10, 2023
ISBN: 9789048557035