Framing "South Asia" : whose imagined region?

• Main Author: Sinderpal, Singh
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy::Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90639; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4487
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The framing of regions, and in this case 'South Asia', has often been done in ostensibly objective terms. This article argues that far from being an objective exercise, framing regions in general and 'South Asia' in particular, is actually a normative and inherently normative pol...