The Dynamics of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary South Asia: The State, Democracy and Social Movements

ISBN-13: 9780367693220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 24 str.

Mio, Minoru

Opis

This book engages with the concept, true value and function of democracy in South Asia against the background of real social conditions for the promotion of peaceful development in the region.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I Democracy, State and Religion  1. Democracy and Vigilantism in India: Spread of Gau Rakshaks  2. Creating Majoritarian Democracy: Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2017 Legislative Assembly Election in Uttar Pradesh  3. Practicing the Right to Indifference: Secularism, Toleration, and Islamophobia in Indian and American National Subjectivities  4. State and Violence in Burma/Myanmar: The Rohingya Crisis and its Implication for South and Southeast Asia  Part II Democratization and Social Movements  5. Manifestation of Dalit Rights, Justice and Dalit-ness in the Post-Mandal Era  6. Homogenization of Social Movement Dynamics under a "Clever" Nepali State, 2007-2012  7. Abul Sattar Edhi: The Modern Incarnation of a Pacifist Sufi  8. Movements of flats and citizens: Notes on spatial politics in Mumbai  Part III How does a conflict end?  9. Life beyond the paradox: peace, ethnic conflict, and everyday realities of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh  10. Communities and Mediation in Post-conflict Nepal  11. Maps, Migration, Melancholia