Violence in South Asia : contemporary perspectives /
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Genealogies of Violence in South Asia / Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann
- Part I. Structural Violence: Ideologies, Hierarchies and Symbolic Acts: 2. Neither War Nor Peace: Political Order and Post-Conflict Violence in Nepal / Julia Strasheim
- 3. Caste Violence: Hate Speech or Injurious Acts? / K. Satyanarayana
- 4. The Representational Burden of Ethno-Nationalist Violence in Sri Lanka / Harshana Rambukwella
- 5. Mapping Extraordinary Measures: Militarisation and Political Resistance in Kashmir / Mohammed Sirajuddeen
- Part II. Gendered Violence: Rape, Misogyny and Feminist Discourse: 6. Sex, Rape, Representation: Cultures of Sexual Violence in Contemporary India / Karen Gabriel
- 7. Biographies of Violence and the Violence of Biographies: Writing about Rape in Pakistan / Shazia Sadaf
- 8. Violence in Public Spaces: Security and Agency of Women in West Bengal / Sanchali Sarkar
- Part III. Outsourced Violence: Mobs, Insurgents and Private Armies: 9. Violence and Perilous Trans-Borderal Journeys: The Rohingyas as the No-Where-Nation Precariat / Mursed Alam
- 10. India's Lynchings: Ordinary Crimes, Rough Justice or Command Hate Crimes? / Harsh Mander
- 11. Violence, Neoliberal State and the Dispossession of Adivasis in Central India / Ashok Kumbamu
- Part IV. Cultures of Violence: Fractured Histories, Fissured Communities: 12. Afghanistan: Military Occupation, Violence and Ethnocracy / Wahid Razi and James Goodman
- 13. Social Roots of Insurgency in Kashmir / Idreas Khandy
- 14. Islamist Attacks against Secular Bloggers in Bangladesh / Ryan Shaffer
- 15. Democratic Voice and the Paradox of Nepal Bandhas / Sally Carlton
- Index.