Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780190129736)

For a city in India's northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia's longest-running separatist conflict, Dimapur remains 'off the map'. With no 'glorious' past or arenas where events of consequence to mainstream India have taken place, Dimapur's essence is experienced in oral histories of events, visual archives of the everyday life, lived reality of military occupation, and anxieties produced in making urban space out of tribal space.
Ceasefire City captures the dynamics of Dimapur. It brings together the fragmented sensibilities granted and contested in particular spaces and illustrates the embodied experiences of the city. The first part explores military presence, capitalist growth, and urban expansion in Dimapur. The second part presents an ethnographic account of lived realities and the meanings that are forged in a frontier city.

Author: Dolly Kikon, Duncan McDuie-Ra
ISBN-10: 0190129735
ISBN-13: 9780190129736
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2021
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90d