1st Edition
Government of Peace Social Governance, Security and the Problematic of Peace
By Ranabir Samaddar
Copyright 2015
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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Government of Peace addresses a major question in world politics today: how does post-colonial democracy produce a form of governance that copes with conflicts, insurgencies, revolts, and acute dissents? The contributors view social governance as a crucial component in answering this question and their narratives of governance aim to show how certain appropriate governing modes make social... Read more
Introduction; Part I The Problematic of Security; Chapter 1 Government of Peace, RanabirSamaddar; Chapter 2 Disciplining Villages and Restoring Peace in the Countryside, SajalNag; Chapter 3 Tripura, SubirBhaumik; Chapter 4 Ethnic Subject or the Subject of Security?, Samir KumarDas; Part II The Problematic of Society; Chapter 5 Women, Conflict, and Governance in Nagaland, PaulaBanerjee; Chapter 6 Governing Caste and Managing Conflicts, Manish K.Jha, Pushpendra; Chapter 7 Governing Flood, Migration, and Conflict in North Bihar, MithileshKumar;
Biography
Ranabir Samaddar is Director at the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India.
’This collection of essays draws on while extending Foucault’s concept of governmentality to make sense of the governance of peace in postcolonial contexts. Peace, as the book argues and demonstrates, is always a product of governmental strategies aimed at preventing dissent, disorder, and the rise of the unruly. As such it should be required reading for anyone working through the contemporary problematics of peace in a world still dominated by naïve understandings of peace as the absence of war.’ Julian Reid, University of Lapland, Finland
