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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823762603321

Autore

Cons Jason

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

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