Sovereign Atonement

Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvMd Azmeary Ferdoush,Md Azmeary (University of Eastern Finland) Ferdoush,Azmeary Ferdoush

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-11-21
Mått159 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt470 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSouth Asia in the Social Sciences
Antal sidor222
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009423359

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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.

'Sovereign Atonement spans time and borders to tell the fascinating story of the India-Bangladesh enclaves, their exchange, and their afterlives. Addressing the question of what territorial exchange means from the perspective of those most directly affected, Azmeary Ferdoush pushes us to rethink sovereignty, territory, and processes of redress from the ground up.' Jason Cons, author of Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border