Ceasefire City

Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-012973-6
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

For a city in India's northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia's longest-running separatist conflict, Dimapur remains 'off the map'. With no 'glorious' past or arenas where events of consequence to mainstream India have taken place, Dimapur's essence is experienced in oral histories of events, visual archives of the everyday life, lived reality of military occupation, and anxieties produced in making urban space out of
tribal space.
Ceasefire City captures the dynamics of Dimapur. It brings together the fragmented sensibilities granted and contested in particular spaces and illustrates the embodied experiences of the city. The first part explores military presence, capitalist growth, and urban expansion in Dimapur. The second part presents an ethnographic account of lived realities and the meanings that are forged in a frontier city.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kikon, Dolly

McDuie-Ra, Duncan

McDuieRa, Duncan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Über Autor(innen)

Dolly Kikon is senior lecturer of anthropology and development studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Duncan McDuie-Ra is professor of urban sociology at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, the University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.