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- Title
Jungle passports: Fences, mobility and citizenship at the Northeast India‐Bangladesh borderlands by Malini Sur.
- Authors
Cons, Jason; Maunaguru, Sidharthan; Moral, Radhika; Gohain, Swargajyoti; Sur, Malini
- Abstract
In this respect, I Jungle Passports i contributes to scholarly discussions on sovereignty beyond the state (Hansen & Stepputat, [7]) and outside Judeo-Christian political theology and Eurocentric understandings of sovereignty (Maunaguru, [12]; Singh, [17]). I Jungle Passports i shows border societies are not just in a state of bare life despite heavy militarization and state violence. Sur proposes a rethinking of life and force beyond the shadows of Agamben's ([1]) idea of sovereignty as one that emerges through the idea of "state of exception", the performance of violence and the notion of "bare life" that dominates studies of violent borders. Through rice, export surplus garments and other commodities that move across borders, Sur demonstrates effectively that while mobility is integral to the social and economic lives of those who are part of cross-border networks, borders themselves are by no means obsolete, and state presence is felt acutely by individuals in different situations.
- Subjects
BANGLADESH; PASSPORTS; BORDERLANDS; CITIZENSHIP; KINSHIP; POLITICAL theology; FENCES; JUNGLES
- Publication
Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2023, Vol 34, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
1035-8811
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/taja.12479