Political Violence in South Asia

Herausgeber: Riaz, Ali; Nasreen, Zobaida; Zaman, Fahmida

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores various dimensions of political violence in South Asia, namely in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Each chapter either speaks to an important aspect of the political violence or provides an overall picture of the nature and scope of political violence in the respective country.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 158mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780815360469
• ISBN-10: 0815360460
• Artikelnr.: 53880612

Autorenporträt

Ali Riaz is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Illinois State University, USA where he served as the Chair of the Department of Politics and Government from 2007 to 2017. His publications include Bangladesh: A Political History since Independence (2016) and the co-edited Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh (2016). Zobaida Nasreen is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Currently she is a Fulbright fellow at the Centre for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University, Texas, USA. Her recent publications include Anthropological Thoughts (2018) and Women's Journey against All Odds (2013). Fahmida Zaman earned her Master's in Global Politics and Culture from Illinois State University, USA, where she received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2017. Her master's thesis examines the memory of 1947 Indian Partition and identity politics in Bangladesh.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Perspectives on Political Violence in South Asia Part 1 1. A
Taxonomy of Political Violence in South Asia 2. Towards a relational view
of political violence 3. Representation of Political Violence in South
Asian English Fiction Part 2 4. Explaining Political Violence in
Contemporary Bangladesh (2000-2017) 5. State Violence and the Everyday -
The Ecology of Suspicion and Distrust 6. Communal violence in India:
strategies for prevention 7. The Politics of Muzaffarnagar Violence in
2013, Uttar Pradesh, India 8. Kashmiri Youth: Redefining the Movement for
Self-determination 9. Maoism and Political Violence of People's War in
Nepal 10. Strategic Logic of Political Violence in Pakistan 11. Island of
Violence: Ethno-Political Conflict in Sri Lanka 12. Political Violence and
Post-Colonial State Building in Sri Lanka