1st Edition

Re-imagining Border Studies in South Asia

Edited By Dhananjay Tripathi Copyright 2021
264 Pages
by Routledge India

264 Pages
by Routledge India

264 Pages
by Routledge India

This book presents a radical rethinking of Border Studies. Framing the discipline beyond conventional topics of spatiality and territoriality, it presents a distinctly South Asian perspective – a post-colonial and post-partition region where most borders were drawn with political motives, ignoring the socio-cultural realities of the region and economic necessities of the people. The... Read more

1. Introduction Section I: Theorising Borders: The South Asian Perspective  2. The Chinese Concept of Sovereignty and The India-China Border Dispute  3. The Dialectics of mental borders in South Asia: A literary perspective  4. Theorising Borders: An Islamic Alternative  Section II: Borders: Regional Economy and Connectivity  5. India’s Quest for Connectivity with Central and Southeast Asia  6. Sri Lankan Maritime Dynamics: Feasibility of Indo-Sri Lanka Mutually Beneficial Collaboration at the Palk Strait  7. South Asian Trans-border Energy Connectivity and Co-operation: Problems and Prospects  8. The Economic Border: A Lens to Understand Cross Border Trade and Investment (Non)Cooperation in South Asia  Section III: Borderlands 9. Paradox of Development: Emerging changes and contestations among Tawang Monpas in Arunachal Pradesh  10. Borderland People and the Rise of the State: A Case Study of Thar Desert  11. Many Lives of a Border: Mentalities, Subjectivities of the Nation-State at the India-Bangladesh Border Haats  Section IV: Securitisation and Borders  12. Conflicts, Cooperation and Territoriality: Understanding Borders and Security at Regional Level  13. Heterogeneous Security Complex: A Framework for the Analysis of China-India Water Conflict and South Asia  14. Globalisation, Internet and Nation-States: Theoretical exploration of the new Borders of Globalisation

Biography

Dhananjay Tripathi is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, South Asian University, New Delhi, India.

"Overall the book provides interesting insights. Facts, latest developments, and convincing arguments pitch the book beyond traditional India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-centric (b)ordering perspectives. It re-imagines the border as an innovative tool for establishing possible cooperation and place-making activities for regional benefits." - Biswajit Mohanty, Journal of Borderlands Studies