Jessica Namakkal

Unsettling Utopia

The Making and Unmaking of French India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization.

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Produktdetails

• Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780231197694
• ISBN-10: 0231197691
• Artikelnr.: 60697652

Autorenporträt

Jessica Namakkal is associate professor of the practice in international comparative studies; gender, sexuality, and feminist studies; and history at Duke University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction: On Minor Borders and Colonial Time
Part 1: Making
1. Carceral Borders: Exile, Surveillance, and Subversion
2. The Future of French India: Decolonization and Settlement at the Borders
3. Making the Postcolonial Subject: Goondas, Refugees, and Citizens
Part 2: Unmaking
4. Decolonial Crossings: Settlers, Migrants, Tourists
5. From the Ashram to Auroville: Utopia as Settlement
Conclusion: The Messiness of Colonialism
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index