Erscheint: September 2026
Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
Remaking the State
Women, Development and Counterinsurgency in India
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Cambridge Academic Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35180577
EAN: 9781009671002
Erscheint: September 2026
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Beschreibung
Remaking the State examines how development becomes a tool of governance in India's counterinsurgency efforts, with a particular focus on women's experiences in the Jungle Mahals of West Bengal. Through a rich ethnography of the state's non-military response to Maoist insurgency, the book explores how policies designed to win "hearts and minds" intersect with gendered assumptions of empowerment and pacification. Kamra shows how programmes like Muktidhara, a microcredit initiative for rural women, function as mechanisms of both governance and negotiation, as women respond not with resistance, but with strategic engagement. Situating these dynamics within broader histories of colonial and postcolonial state-making in insurgent margins, the book develops a compelling framework for understanding how states are remade from both above and below. Bridging political science, feminist development studies, and critical security studies, this volume offers a timely intervention in debates on democracy, sovereignty, and gendered governance in South Asia.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Lipika Kamra
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 300