Fixes and Flux: Frontier Brokers, Political Settlements and Post-War Politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka. Issue 11 (2nd November 2022)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Fixes and Flux: Frontier Brokers, Political Settlements and Post-War Politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka. Issue 11 (2nd November 2022)
- Main Title:
- Fixes and Flux: Frontier Brokers, Political Settlements and Post-War Politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka
- Authors:
- Goodhand, Jonathan
Walton, Oliver - Abstract:
- Abstract: This article examines post-war politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka through the prism of centre-periphery relations, drawing upon and expanding political settlements analysis. We highlight two key features neglected in existing research on political settlements: first, the spatial dimensions of these settlements – particularly the salience of frontier regions in shaping post-war orders. These 'sensitive spaces' continue as sites of struggle in the post-war period and frontier battles over the reordering of space and the delineation of rights, authority and citizenship are central to the emergence of post-war political settlements. Second, within these post-war frontiers we highlight the role of 'frontier brokers' who mediate between national and local levels of the political system. Post-war frontiers provide an opening and a demand for brokers who act as both gatekeepers and go-betweens, balancing demands from communities at the margins with the need to forge alliances and extract resources from central actors. We argue that questions of space and agency need to be foregrounded in political settlement analysis, and studying the lives of frontier brokers provides a lens for understanding shifts in political settlements and the changing relationship between the national and subnational levels of the political system at war's end.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of development studies. Volume 58:Issue 11(2022)
- Journal:
- Journal of development studies
- Issue:
- Volume 58:Issue 11(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 58, Issue 11 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 11
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0058-0011-0000
- Page Start:
- 2331
- Page End:
- 2348
- Publication Date:
- 2022-11-02
- Subjects:
- Sri Lanka -- political settlement -- Nepal -- conflict -- peace
Economic development -- Periodicals
Economic history -- 1945- -- Periodicals
Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals
Développement économique -- Périodiques
Histoire économique -- 1945- -- Périodiques
Pays en voie de développement -- Conditions économiques -- Périodiques
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http://www.ingenta.com/isis/browsing/AllIssues/ingenta;jsessionid=37pnwd9pl1jxu.crescent?journal=pubinfobike://fcp/jds ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/00220388.2022.2086046 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0022-0388
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