Everyday Occupations : : Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East / / ed. by Kamala Visweswaran.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Ali, Nosheen,; Chakma, Kabita,; Falk, Richard,; Hewamanne, Sandya,; Hill, Glen,; Junaid, Mohamad,; Kanaaneh, Rhoda,; Ozsoy, Hisyar,; Rudhramoorthy, Cheran,; Sengul, Serap Ruken,; Visweswaran, Kamala,
• HerausgeberIn: Visweswaran, Kamala,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 8 illus.

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, and Turkey) have felt the imprint of socialism; declarations of peace after long periods of conflict in these countries have not improved the conditions of their minority or indigenous peoples but rather have resulted in "violent peace" and remilitarization. Indeed, the existence of standing troops and ongoing state violence against peoples struggling for self-determination in these regions suggests the expanding and everyday nature of military occupation. Such everydayness raises larger issues about the dominant place of the military in society and the social values surrounding militarism.Everyday Occupations examines militarization from the standpoints of both occupier and occupied. With attention to gender, poetics, satire, and popular culture, contributors who have lived and worked in occupied areas in the Middle East and South Asia explore what kinds of society are foreclosed or made possible by militarism. The outcome is a powerful contribution to the ethnography of political violence.Contributors: Nosheen Ali, Kabita Chakma, Richard Falk, Sandya Hewamanne, Mohamad Junaid, Rhoda Kanaaneh, Hisyar Ozsoy, Cheran Rudhramoorthy, Serap Ruken Sengul, Kamala Visweswaran.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Healing the forest -- Introduction: Geographies of Everyday Occupation -- Chapter 1. Qırıx: An ''Inverted Rhapsody'' of Kurdish National Struggle, Gender, and Everyday Life in Diyarbakır -- Chapter 2. The War Zone in My Heart: The Occupation of Southern Sri Lanka -- Chapter 3. Grounding Militarism: Structures of Feeling and Force in Gilgit-Baltistan -- Chapter 4. Stateless Citizens and Menacing Men: Notes on the Occupation of Palestinians Inside Israel -- Chapter 5. Indigenous Women and Culture in the Colonized Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh -- Chapter 6. Death and Life Under Occupation: Space, Violence, and Memory in Kashmir -- Chapter 7. The Missing Grave of Sheikh Said: Kurdish Formations of Memory, Place, and Sovereignty in Turkey -- Afterword: Refining the Optic of Occupation -- Some day -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments