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A Thousand Tiny Cuts
Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands
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This book is essential for readers interested in anthropology, border studies, gender and sexuality, and South Asian postcolonial issues. It offers an in-depth ethnographic perspective ideal for academics, researchers, and students in education and social sciences.
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A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern Bangladesh and eastern India, Sahana Ghosh shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the making and management of threat in relation to mobility.
Rather than focusing solely on border fences and border crossings, she demonstrates that bordering reorders relations of value. The cost of militarisation across this ostensibly "friendly" border is devaluationβof agrarian land and crops, of borderland youth undesirable as brides and grooms in their respective national hinterlands, of regional infrastructures now disconnected, and of social and physical geographies disordered by surveillance.
Through a textured ethnography of the gendered political economy of mobility across postcolonial borderlands in South Asia, this ambitious book challenges anthropological understandings of the violence of bordering, migration and citizenship, and transnational inequalities that are based on Euro-American borders and security regimes.
Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780520395732
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 September 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Illustration: 27 b-w illustrations; 2 maps; 1 table
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 408g
Pages: 296
About the Author
Sahana Ghosh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Singapore.
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