Everyday Occupations - Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Kamala Visweswaran Klappentext Everyday Occupations engages visual culture and the ethnography of space, satire and parody, poetry and political critique to examine militarization as it is wielded as a cultural and political tool, and as it is experienced as a material form of violence and symbolic domination. Zusammenfassung Everyday Occupations engages visual culture and the ethnography of space! satire and parody! poetry and political critique to examine militarization as it is wielded as a cultural and political tool! and as it is experienced as a material form of violence and symbolic domination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Healing the Forest -Cheran Rudhramoorthy Introduction: Everyday Occupations -Kamala Visweswaran Chapter 1. Q¿r¿x: An "Inverted Rhapsody" on Kurdish National Struggle, Gender, and Everyday Life in Diyarbak¿ -Serap Ruken Sengul Chapter 2. The War Zone in My Heart: The Occupation of Southern Sri Lanka -Sandya Hewamanne Chapter 3. Grounding Militarism: Structures of Feeling and Force in Gilgit-Baltistan -Nosheen Ali Chapter 4. Stateless Citizens and Menacing Men: Notes on the Occupation of Palestinians Inside Israel -Rhoda Kanaaneh Chapter 5. Indigenous Women and Culture in the Colonized Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh -Kabita Chakma and Glen Hill Chapter 6. Death and Life Under Occupation: Space, Violence, and Memory in Kashmir -Mohamad Junaid Chapter 7. The Missing Grave of Sheikh Said: Kurdish Formations of Memory, Place, and Sovereignty in Turkey -Hisyar Oszoy Afterword: Refining the Optic of Occupation -Richard Falk Some Day -Kabita Chakma Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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• Authors: Kamala Visweswaran, VISWESWARAN KAMALA EDT
• Assisted by: Kamala Visweswaran (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2013
• EAN: 9780812244878
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4487-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Militärgeschichte, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Politics / Current Events, HISTORY / Military / Strategy