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Borderland City in New India explores contemporary urban life in two cities in India's Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change. Social and economic transformation from India's embrace of neoliberalism and globalisation, often referred to as 'new' India, has become a popular subject for academic analysis in the last decade. This is epitomised by focus on so-called 'mega-cities', reflecting a general trend in scholarship on other parts of Asia. However, far less attention has been afforded to borderland regions and to the provincial cities of 'new' India. Using ethnographic material, this book focuses on two cities in India's Northeast borderland: Aizawl and Imphal. Both cities have been profoundly affected by armed conflict, militarism, displacement, and inter-ethnic tensions. Yet, both are also experiencing intensified flows of goods and people, rapid urban development, and expansion of Indian and foreign capital associated with the opening of the borderland west to the rest of India and east to the rest of Asia

Borderland Cities in New India explores contemporary urban life in two cities in India's Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change. Social and economic transformation from India's embrace of neoliberalism and globalisation, often referred to as 'new' India, has become a popular subject for academic analysis in the last decade. This is epitomised by focus on so-called 'mega-cities', reflecting a general trend in scholarship on other parts of Asia. However, far less attention has been afforded to borderland regions and to the provincial cities of 'new' India. Using ethnographic material, this book focuses on two cities in India's Northeast borderland: Aizawl and Imphal. Both cities have been profoundly affected by armed conflict, militarism, displacement, and inter-ethnic tensions. Yet, both are also experiencing intensified flows of goods and people, rapid urban development, and expansion of Indian and foreign capital associated with the opening of the borderland west to the rest of India and east to the rest of Asia. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps and Images -- Map 1.1 Manipur and surrounding states and territories -- Image 1.1 Shanker Talkies, Lamphelpat -- Image 2.1 Central Imphal facing north -- Image 2.2 Multi-storey houses alongside partially completed houses, Uripok Khumanthem Leikai -- Image 2.3 Manhunt billboard, LIC Point -- Image 3.1 State Police at Thangal Bazaar -- Image 3.2 Bir Tikendrajit Flyover with the Ima Keithel behind -- Image 3.3 PLA Memorial at Cheiraoching -- Image 4.1 Advertisement for 23rd Century, Salam Leikai -- Image 5.1 Billboard featuring Mary Kom, Khoyathong -- Image 5.2 Local clothes shop, New Checkon -- Image 6.1 Shija Hospital, Langol -- Image 6.2 Baptist church under construction, Langol -- Image 7.1 School under construction, Sangaiprou -- Image 7.2 Advertisement for a secondary school, DM campus -- Image 8.1 Start of the rally, Haobam Marak Lourembam Leikai -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Disturbed City, Sensitive Space -- Frontiers to Corridors -- Approaching Imphal -- Structure of the Book -- Terminology and Place Names -- Part 1 - Disturbed City, Sensitive Space -- 2. Belonging -- Small City, Growing City -- Plurality and Polarity -- Neighbourhoods -- Alternative Places -- Conclusion -- 3. Control -- Spatial Control in Imphal -- The Armed Forces -- Civilian Government -- Non-state Actors -- Contesting and Co-opting Memory -- Resistance and Nationalism -- Insurgent Memorials -- Conclusion -- 4. Exclusion -- Ethnic Politics -- Mao Gate -- Sadar Hills -- Belonging and the Blockades -- Indigenous Politics -- Conclusion -- Part 2 - Liberalising the Frontier -- 5. Gateway City -- New India and Its Frontier -- Indigenising Indian Capital -- Gateway Livelihoods -- Closing the Gate -- Conclusion -- 6. Health City -- Building a Health City -- The Decaying Public System.

"Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail is an ethnographic study of migrants from India's north-east border region living and working in Delhi, the nation's capital. Northeast India borders China, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. Despite burgeoning interest in the region, little attention is given to the thousands of migrants leaving the region for Indian cities for refuge, work, and study. The stories of Northeast migrants reveal an everyday Northeast India rarely captured elsewhere and offer an alternative view of contemporary India. Northeast migrants covet the employment opportunities created by India's embrace of globalization; shopping malls, restaurants, and call centres. Yet Northeast migrants also experience high levels of racism, harassment, and violence. Far from simply victims of the city, Northeast migrants have created their own 'map' of Delhi, enabling a sense of belonging, albeit an uneasy one. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to scholars of anthropology, urban studies, geography, migration, and Asian Studies."--Publisher's website

Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail is an ethnographic study of migrants from India's north-east border region living and working in Delhi, the nation's capital. Northeast India borders China, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. Despite burgeoning interest in the region, little attention is given to the thousands of migrants leaving the region for Indian cities for refuge, work, and study. The stories of Northeast migrants reveal an everyday Northeast India rarely captured elsewhere and offer an alternative view of contemporary India. Northeast migrants covet the employment opportunities created by India's embrace of globalization; shopping malls, restaurants, and call centres. Yet Northeast migrants also experience high levels of racism, harassment, and violence. Far from simply victims of the city, Northeast migrants have created their own 'map' of Delhi, enabling a sense of belonging, albeit an uneasy one. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to scholars of anthropology, urban studies, geography, migration, and Asian Studies. - Dit baanbrekende boek is een etnografische studie naar de migranten die in steeds grotere getale van het noordoosten van India naar de hoofdstad Delhi trekken. De sociale, politieke en economische activiteiten van deze etnische minderheden bieden een heel andere kijk op het hedendaagse India. Door de opkomst van het neoliberale globalisme in India vinden deze migranten in Delhi volop werk in restaurants en supermarkten, maar worden zij daar ook geconfronteerd met racisme en geweld. Tegelijkertijd zoeken ze in hun nieuwe omgeving naar een eigen identiteit.

Intro -- CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRATIZATION AND THE SEARCH FOR HUMAN SECURITY: THE POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT, GENDER, AND IDENTITY IN NORTHEAST INDIA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- GLOSSARY OF NON-ENGLISH TERMS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1: BOUNDED SPHERES, BOUNDED IDENTITIES -- CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRATISATION AND HUMAN SECURITY -- THE ASCENDANCY OF THE THIRD SPHERE MODEL -- WHY CIVIL SOCIETY? -- EURO-CENTRISM AND CRITICAL CIVIL SOCIETY -- CIVIL SOCIETY IN INDIA -- HUMAN SECURITY -- APPLYING HUMAN SECURITY -- A CRITICAL STARTING POINT -- COLONIALISM, STATE FORMATION, AND IDENTITY IN NORTHEAST INDIA -- DRIVE-IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- CREATING TRIBES AND HILL TRIBES IN COLONIAL ASSAM -- THE PERSISTENCE OF COLONIAL CATEGORIES: STATE FORMATION AND THE FURTHER POLITICISATION OF IDENTITY -- THE 'OUTSIDERS' DISCOURSE: POLITICAL POWER AND ETHNICITY IN MEGHALAYA -- THE HEGEMONY OF IDENTITY IN MEGHALAYA -- IDENTITY, POWER AND INEQUALITY -- INSECURE IDENTITY -- PART II - MARGINALITY AND VOICE: THE INSECURITY OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- CONSTRUCTING ENVIRONMENTAL INSECURITY: THE POLITICS OF DEGRADATION AND IDENTITY -- APPROACHING ENVIRONMENTAL INSECURITY -- ENVIRONMENTALISM IN NATIONAL AND LOCAL CONTEXTS -- ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN MEGHALAYA -- URANIUM MINING, COAL MINING, AND 'OUTSIDERS' -- COAL MINING -- ETHNICISING THE ENVIRONMENT -- THE MYTH OF EMPOWERMENT: GENDER, INSECURITY, AND IDENTITY -- APPROACHING GENDER AND INSECURITY -- GENDER-BASED INSECURITY IN THE KHASI HILLS -- GENDER POLITICS IN THE KHASI HILLS -- CONTESTING POWER: RECOVERING AGENCY -- TOWARDS TRANSCENDENCE? -- PART III - TRANSCENDENCE: BRINGING BACK THE POLITICAL -- TRANSCENDENCE: RE-THINKING CIVIL SOCIETY, RE-INTERPRETING HUMAN SECURITY, AND RE-IMAGINING MEGHALAYA -- RE-IMAGINING CIVIL SOCIETY -- RE-INTERPRETING HUMAN SECURITY -- RE-IMAGINING MEGHALAYA.

This article explores the centrality of China's cities to skate video; the most popular form for capturing, circulating, and consuming skateboarding. China's urban growth produces endless spots to skate; a spot is assemblage of objects and surfaces that offer the opportunity to perform skateboarding maneuvers (tricks). Skate video is the substance of skate culture, the once quintessentially Californian pastime turned global subculture and industry. After skateboarding left the skatepark for the streets in the 1990s, and once video became easier to circulate digitally through streaming platforms in the mid-2000s, the search for spots to perform and capture unsanctioned street skateboarding spread to China's urban landscapes, beginning with Shenzhen. China's cities are sites of global desire among skateboarders for the perfect surfaces and obstacles created in the built environment and the speed at which they are produced. Using skate video as an archive I make four arguments. First, China's cities imputed with a mythical character; endless spots produced with miraculous speed. Second, skate videos re-map China's cities through the skater's gaze, a form of urban knowledge both unique and widely shared. Third, the search for spots indexes urban development in China, privileging the recent and shunning the past. Fourth, skateboarding in China's cities create spaces for inter-cultural encounter between skateboarders and authority, the public and other skateboarders. The article concludes by discussing the utility of skate video as an alternative visual archive of urban China for foreign audiences and increasingly for skate communities in China itself.

While India has been a popular subject of scholarly analysis in the past decade, the majority of that attention has been focused on its major cities. This volume instead explores contemporary urban life in a smaller city located in India's northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change, showing how this city has been profoundly affected by armed conflict, militarism, displacement, ethnic tensions, and the expansion of neoliberal capitalism.