Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur

Dolly Kikon (Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Melbourne),Duncan McDuie-Ra (Professor of Urban Sociology, Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Newcastle)

Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur
Format
Hardback
Publisher
OUP India
Country
India
Published
17 February 2021
Pages
284
ISBN
9780190129736

Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur

Dolly Kikon (Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Melbourne),Duncan McDuie-Ra (Professor of Urban Sociology, Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Newcastle)

For a city in India’s northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia’s longest-running separatist conflict, Dimapur remains ‘off the map’. With no ‘glorious’ past or arenas where events of consequence to mainstream India have taken place, Dimapur’s essence is experienced in oral histories of events, visual archives of the everyday life, lived reality of military occupation, and anxieties produced in making urban space out of tribal space. Ceasefire City captures the dynamics of Dimapur. It brings together the fragmented sensibilities granted and contested in particular spaces and illustrates the embodied experiences of the city. The first part explores military presence, capitalist growth, and urban expansion in Dimapur. The second part presents an ethnographic account of lived realities and the meanings that are forged in a frontier city.

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