Violence in South Asia : contemporary perspectives /: contemporary perspectives. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Birte Heidemann.
• Editors: Malreddy, Pavan Kumar, 1977-; Purakayastha, Anindya Sekhar; Heidemann, Birte
• Contents: List of contributors. Acknowledgements. ; 1. Introduction: genealogies of violence in South Asia. Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann Part I: Structural violence: ideologies, hierarchies and symbolic acts ; 2. Neither war nor peace: political order and post-conflict violence in Nepal. Julia Strasheim 3. Caste violence: free speech or atrocity? K. Satyanarayana 4. The representational burden of ethno-nationalist violence in Sri Lanka. Harshana Rambukwella 5. Mapping extraordinary measures: militarisation and political resistance in Kashmir. Mohammed Sirajuddeen Part II: Gendered violence: rape, misogyny and feminist discourse ; 6. Sex, rape, representation: cultures of sexual violence in contemporary India. Karen Gabriel 7. Biographies of violence and the violence of biographies: writing about rape in Pakistan. Shazia Sadaf 8. Violence in public spaces: security and agency of women in West Bengal. Sanchali Sarkar Part III: Outsourced violence: mobs, insurgents and private armies ; 9. Violence and perilous trans-borderal journeys: the Rohingyas as the nowhere-nation precariat. Mursed Alam 10. India’s lynchings: ordinary crimes, rough justice or command hate crimes? Harsh Mander 11. Violence, neoliberal state and the dispossession of adivasis in Central India. Ashok Kumbamu Part IV: Cultures of violence: fractured histories, fissured communities ; 12. Afghanistan: military occupation, violence and ethnocracy. Wahid Razi and James Goodman 13. Social roots of insurgency in Kashmir. Idreas Khandy 14. Islamist attacks against secular bloggers in Bangladesh. Ryan Shaffer 15. Democratic voice and the paradox of Nepal bandhas . Sally Carlton ; Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 303.60954; Political violence -- South Asia; Violence -- South Asia; South Asia -- Social conditions; South Asia -- Politics and government
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000733402; 9781000733020; 9781000733211; 9780429316845
• Related ISBNs: 9780367135119; 9780367321321
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