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Kamala Visweswaran - Everyday Occupations - 9780812244878 - V9780812244878
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Everyday Occupations

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Description for Everyday Occupations Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Visweswaran, Kamala. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; JPVH; JWK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 622.

In the twenty-first century, political conflict and militarization have come to constitute a global social condition rather than a political exception. Military occupation increasingly informs the politics of both democracies and dictatorships, capitalist and formerly socialist regimes, raising questions about its relationship to sovereignty and the nation-state form. Israel and India are two of the world's most powerful postwar democracies yet have long-standing military occupations. Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Turkey have passed through periods of military dictatorship, but democracy has yielded little for their ethnic minorities who have been incorporated into the electoral process. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (like India, Pakistan, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812244878
SKU
V9780812244878
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About Kamala Visweswaran
Kamala Visweswaran is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas-Austin, and author most recently of Un/common Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference and Perspectives on Modern South Asia.

Reviews for Everyday Occupations
"Colonial-style occupations, counter-insurgencies and militarized zones scar the face of much of South Asia and the Middle East. But what specific forms does such everyday violence assume in the postcolonial reality of sovereign nation-states? This indispensable volume offers some brilliant and disturbing answers."
Pankaj Mishra, author of From the Ruins of Empire
"In questioning and subverting conventional definitions ... Read more

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