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Author Wilkinson, Matthew, author

Title Borderland anxieties : shifting understandings of gender, place and identity at the India-Burma border / Matthew Wilkinson
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations
Series Asian borderlands
Asian borderlands.
Contents 1. "The Nagaland State Co-operative Bank Ltd. welcome you to Nagaland" -- 2. Becoming a borderland -- 3. Legacies of conflict -- 4. Nagaland opening up -- 5. "Spinsters and divorced women" -- 6. New politics of gender at the border -- Closing
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Asian Studies
AS
Conflict and Peace
CONFL & PEACE
Development Studies
DEVEL
Gender and Sexuality Studies
GEND & SEXU
South Asia
SASIA
Sociology and Social History
SOC & HIS
Masculinity, Marginality, Borderland, Frontier, Zomia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Dr. Matthew Wilkinson is an ethnographer with a special focus on frontiers, borderlands, and liberalization in Asia and South Asia
Print version record
Subject Sex role -- Social aspects -- India -- Nāgāland
Peace studies and conflict resolution.
Gender studies: men.
HISTORY / Social History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries.
Sex role -- Social aspects
Social conditions
Development studies.
Peace studies and conflict resolution.
Gender studies: men and boys.
SUBJECT Nāgāland (India) -- Social conditions
Subject India -- Nāgāland
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789048557035
9048557038