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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465867903321

Titolo

Sensitive Space : Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border / / Jason Cons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, Washington ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Washington Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-295-80654-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Collana

Global South Asia

Disciplina

303.4825405492

Soggetti

Diplomatic relations

Electronic books.

India

Bangladesh

Bangladesh Foreign relations India

India Foreign relations Bangladesh

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface: Transformations, Exchanges, and Sensitive Space; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Key Terms; Part One. Entering Sensitive Space; Introduction: The Fragments and Their Nation(s); 1 Territorial Anxieties: Uncertain Land, Unstable Territory, and Unsettled Rule at the Border; Part Two. Sensitive Histories; 2 Amplified Territory: Transforming the Enclaves from "Border Problems" into "Sensitive Spaces"; 3 Histories of Belonging(s): Negotiating Dahagram's Political Community; 4 Contesting Boundaries, Claiming Territory: Counter-Narratives of Belonging, Identity, and Power

Part Three. Life and Rule in a Sensitive Place5 Territorial Corrosion: Boundary Surveys, Symbolic Developments, and Border Management in Sensitive Space; 6 Contingent Terrain: Conjuncture, Movement, and Agrarian Change in Dahagram; Conclusion: Whither Sensitive Space?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z