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  • Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence

    Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India

    Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of conflicted democracies in the postcolony, calling attention to the urgent need for transformation. Spectacular and quotidian gendered and sexualized violence by states and collectives holds in place fraught and unjust histories and relations between elites and ... Leer más

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    Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict

    The Wheat Fields Still Whisper

    de Mallika Kaur ...
    Narrado por Soneela Nankani ...

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    17 hora 18 minutos

    Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of postcolonial India. During its deadliest decade, as many as 250,000 people were killed. This audiobook makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has been characterized by a fixation on sensational violence—or ignored altogether.Mallika Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of the Governed

    Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
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  • Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal

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    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Identity movements, based on ethnicity, caste, language, religion and regional identity, have become increasingly significant in Nepal, reshaping debates on the definition of the nation, nationalism and the structure of the state. This book analyzes the rapid rise in ethnic and nationalist mobilization and conflict since 1990, the dynamics and trajectories of these movements, and their ... Leer más

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  • The Promise of Power

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    de Maya Tudor ...
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  • Non Traditional Security : State, Society and Democracy in South Asia

    de Lok Raj Baral ...
    This book is the product of a regional seminar on Non-Traditional Security: State, Society and Democracy in South Asia organized by Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies (NCCS). It has tried to reconceptualize security from a democratic perspective because democracy is being interpreted as an overall empowerment of people. Democracy is also a way of life providing psychological, economic, social, ... Leer más

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    In this study of struggles for ethnoterritorial autonomy, Bethany Lacina explains regional elites’ decision whether or not to fight for autonomy, and the central government’s response to this decision. In India, the prime minister’s respective electoral ties to separate, rival regional interests determine whether ethnoterritorial demands occur and whether they are repressed or accommodated.Using ... Leer más

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  • Maoist and other Armed Conflicts

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