Making Kashmir Borderless: RCSS Policy Studies 51 - Softcover

Mahapatra, Debidatta Aurobinda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8173049890 ISBN 13: 9788173049897

Publisher: Manohar Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

In the globalized world, borders have escaped the realist encumbrance of being state-centric and have attained new meanings as lines of contact, commerce, and cooperation. Many argue that Kashmir, involved in one of the most protracted conflicts in the world, cannot escape from an approach that not only refuses to accept violence as a method of resolution but also widens the discourse by focusing on the people at the center stage of conflict transformation. This study is motivated by two objectives. First, it aims to rescue the space inhabited by the borderlanders—people who live on borders and become direct victims of violence—as it views that space not as a piece of territory to be fought over but as a space in which borderlanders’ identity, sociocultural life, and economic livelihood thrived for centuries, even surpassing the lifespan of the current nation-state mechanism. Second, this study scrutinizes the on-going bottom-up peace process in Kashmir, which indicates that methods employing violence have become obsolete.

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About the Author

Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra is an assistant professor at the Centre for South and Central Asian Studies at Central University of Punjab in India. He is the author or editor of numerous works, and his areas of expertise include conflict, terrorism, peace and development, and strategic dimensions of Eurasian politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manohar Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 8173049890
• ISBN 13: 9788173049897
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 84