Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border (South Asia in the Social Sciences) - Hardcover

Ferdoush, Md Azmeary

 
9781009423359: Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border (South Asia in the Social Sciences)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1009423355 ISBN 13: 9781009423359
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host state territories in 2015. Sovereign Atonement focuses on the protracted territorial exchange and experiences of the newly accepted Bangladeshi citizens. It grapples with one broad question: why did the state assume an active role in smoothing the once excluded population's experiences into their inclusion within the sovereign project? The book dives deep into an ethnographic and historical reading of the everyday state, land and territory, informality, (non)state actors, and performance of sovereignty. Furthermore, it troubles the often taken-for-granted understanding of exception, governance, and citizenship. As such, Ferdoush offers a retake on the two seemingly contradictory concepts -'sovereign' and 'atonement'- to demonstrate that bridged together these concepts as sovereign atonement enables a novel way of appreciating geopolitical narratives, political geographies, and nationalistic discourse in South Asia and beyond.

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About the Author

Md Azmeary Ferdoush is Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher based in the Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland. Before taking up his position at the Karelian Institute, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland and explored the way regional changes and transformation processes take place in Arctic Finland and its adjacent regions due to state and supra-state organizations. He was awarded the prestigious East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009423355
ISBN 13 
9781009423359
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
222