A thousand tiny cuts : mobility and security across the Bangladesh-India borderlands / Sahana Ghosh.
| Author/creator | Ghosh, Sahana, 1984- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | viii, 286 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Atelier : ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; 10. ^A1461498 |
| Contents | Introduction -- On and off Rangpur road -- Walking through the borderlandscape -- Relative intimacies -- Agrarian commodities and the national economy -- Risk, labor, and masculine becoming -- Dwelling through mobility and unsettlement -- Epilogue. |
| Abstract | "Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in the borderlands of northern Bangladesh and eastern India, A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands and shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the meaning and management of threat in relation to mobility. It recasts a singular focus on border fences and border crossings to show, instead, that bordering is an expansive and accumulative reordering of relations of value. Devaluations-of agrarian land and crops, borderland youth undesirable as brides and grooms in their respective national hinterlands, disconnection of regional infrastructures, and social and physical geographies disordered by surveillance-proliferate as the costs of militarization across this ostensibly "friendly" border. Through a textured ethnography of the gendered political economy of mobility across a postcolonial borderlands in South Asia, this ambitious book challenges anthropological understanding of the violence of bordering, migration and citizenship, and transnational inequalities that are based on Euro-American borders and security regimes"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ghosh, Sahana, 1984- Thousand tiny cuts Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] 9780520395749 |
| LCCN | 2023005935 |
| ISBN | 9780520395732 |
| ISBN | 9780520395725 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0520395727 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0520395735 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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