Contesting Nation – Gendered Violence in South Asia: Notes on the Postcolonial Present - Hardcover

Chatterji, Angana P.; Chaudhry, Lubna Nazir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9381017875 ISBN 13: 9789381017876

Publisher: Zubaan, 2013

Synopsis

An innovative collection of essays on the turmoil spreading across South Asia, "Contesting Nation" sheds light on how violence--in wars of direct and indirect conquest--marks the present. Featuring contributions by distinguished South Asian women scholars, the book offers inspired, gendered, and contested histories of the present, exploring nation-making and its intersections with projects of militarization and cultural assertion, modernization, and globalization. The contributors to this volume consider such turbulent events as the Gujarat carnage of 2002, post-9/11 mobilizations, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, shedding light on the force with which brutal events encompass lives and disfigure communities. This powerful book examines the very borders such brutality maintains and its intimate and lasting effects on bodies and memories.

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Angana Chatterji is a feminist anthropologist and historian of the present. She is author of "Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India s Present."Lubna Nazir Chaudhry is assistant professor of education and human development at the State University of New York, Binghamton.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Zubaan
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9381017875
• ISBN 13: 9789381017876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 436