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A thousand tiny cuts : mobility and security across the Bangladesh-India borderlands /
Ghosh, Sahana, 1984-
A thousand tiny cuts : mobility and security across the Bangladesh-India borderlands / Sahana Ghosh. - x, 286 pages 22 cm. - Atelier : ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century ; vol. 10 . - Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; 10. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- On and off rangpur road -- Walking through the borderlandscape -- Relative intimacies -- Distinctions : Agrarian commodity chains and the national Economy -- "No risk, no profit" : border violence, masculine becoming, and worth -- Dwelling through mobility and unsettlement -- Epilogue.
"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"--
9789382579915
2023005936
Borderlands--India--Bengal.
Borderlands--Bangladesh.
Border security--India--Bengal.
Border security--Bangladesh.
Boundaries--Anthropological aspects.
DS450.B3
303.25405492
A thousand tiny cuts : mobility and security across the Bangladesh-India borderlands / Sahana Ghosh. - x, 286 pages 22 cm. - Atelier : ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century ; vol. 10 . - Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; 10. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- On and off rangpur road -- Walking through the borderlandscape -- Relative intimacies -- Distinctions : Agrarian commodity chains and the national Economy -- "No risk, no profit" : border violence, masculine becoming, and worth -- Dwelling through mobility and unsettlement -- Epilogue.
"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"--
9789382579915
2023005936
Borderlands--India--Bengal.
Borderlands--Bangladesh.
Border security--India--Bengal.
Border security--Bangladesh.
Boundaries--Anthropological aspects.
DS450.B3
303.25405492
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