Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India

An epicentre of ethnicity-based identity politics and exclusions, India's northeastern region has long been politically imagined as both a ‘frontier’ and ‘borderland’ for state control, territorialization, extractive economies and (re)developments by colonial and subsequent post-colonial regime...

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Main Authors: DAS, Prerona, MITTAL, Gaurav, SARMA, Jasnea
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spelling sg-smu-ink.cis_research-12292024-12-12T09:08:01Z Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India DAS, Prerona MITTAL, Gaurav SARMA, Jasnea An epicentre of ethnicity-based identity politics and exclusions, India's northeastern region has long been politically imagined as both a ‘frontier’ and ‘borderland’ for state control, territorialization, extractive economies and (re)developments by colonial and subsequent post-colonial regimes. In post-independence India, the region experienced many territorial assertions made on ethnic grounds. With the rise of religio-national and neoliberal politics, new urban ‘developments’ and connectivity projects in the region have deepened exclusions based on class, caste, ethnic and religious borders. These have, in turn, led to further displacement, enclavization, and ghettoization of minority communities who are deemed ‘non-native’ along ethnocentric lines. Taking two cases from Shillong and Guwahati, we introduce the concept of entangled exclusions to analyse the layered, intertwined, multi-scalar nature of divides within these frontier cities. We argue these cities are critical sites for understanding urban geopolitics where concentrated entanglements of exclusions and (re)borderings become manifest as these cities experience new infrastructural investments. 2024-11-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/230 info:doi/10.1111/sjtg.12575 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1229/viewcontent/Entangled_exclusions_India_av.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection College of Integrative Studies eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University borders frontier cities northeast India urban exclusions urban geopolitics Asian Studies Human Geography Urban Studies
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topic borders
frontier cities
northeast India
urban exclusions
urban geopolitics
Asian Studies
Human Geography
Urban Studies
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frontier cities
northeast India
urban exclusions
urban geopolitics
Asian Studies
Human Geography
Urban Studies
DAS, Prerona
MITTAL, Gaurav
SARMA, Jasnea
Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India
description An epicentre of ethnicity-based identity politics and exclusions, India's northeastern region has long been politically imagined as both a ‘frontier’ and ‘borderland’ for state control, territorialization, extractive economies and (re)developments by colonial and subsequent post-colonial regimes. In post-independence India, the region experienced many territorial assertions made on ethnic grounds. With the rise of religio-national and neoliberal politics, new urban ‘developments’ and connectivity projects in the region have deepened exclusions based on class, caste, ethnic and religious borders. These have, in turn, led to further displacement, enclavization, and ghettoization of minority communities who are deemed ‘non-native’ along ethnocentric lines. Taking two cases from Shillong and Guwahati, we introduce the concept of entangled exclusions to analyse the layered, intertwined, multi-scalar nature of divides within these frontier cities. We argue these cities are critical sites for understanding urban geopolitics where concentrated entanglements of exclusions and (re)borderings become manifest as these cities experience new infrastructural investments.
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author DAS, Prerona
MITTAL, Gaurav
SARMA, Jasnea
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SARMA, Jasnea
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title Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India
title_short Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India
title_full Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India
title_fullStr Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India
title_full_unstemmed Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India
title_sort entangled exclusions: borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast india
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2024
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/230
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1229/viewcontent/Entangled_exclusions_India_av.pdf
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