Rövid leírás:
Ceasefire City aims to capture the dynamics of Dimapur by bringing together the fragmented sensibilities granted and contested in particular spaces in the city and the embodied experiences of the city by its residents. The first part of the book talks about military presence, capitalist growth, and urban expansion in Dimapur through an analysis of its spatial politics, and the second part, through collaborative ethnographic exercises, focuses on the relationship between the lived realities and the meanings that are forged around the city.
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Hosszú leírás:
For a city in India’s northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia’s longest-running separatist conflict, Dimapur remains ‘off the map’. With no ‘glorious’ past or arenas where events of consequence to mainstream India have taken place, Dimapur’s essence is experienced in oral histories of events, visual archives of the everyday life, lived reality of military occupation, and anxieties produced in making urban space out of tribal space.
Ceasefire City captures the dynamics of Dimapur. It brings together the fragmented sensibilities granted and contested in particular spaces and illustrates the embodied experiences of the city. The first part explores military presence, capitalist growth, and urban expansion in Dimapur. The second part presents an ethnographic account of lived realities and the meanings that are forged in a frontier city.
Ceasefire City takes many imaginative leaps to understand the complex and contradictory yet routine rhythm of urbanism in a small frontier city in the Global South. The book presents a new way of reading the city through a multi-sensory methodological paradigm.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
List of Images
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Space
Migrant City, Tribal Territory
Producing Urban Space
Part II: Stories
Audible City
Huntingscape
Dying in Dimapur
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
