Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that is emerging from decades of armed conflict. In the wake of Nagaland’s conflict, liberalization and an ‘opening up’ of the state to new connections and flows take place alongside ongoing militarization, nationalist insurgency, and political unrest. Nagaland’s complex peace-conflict continuum has encouraged a reordering of possibilities for men and for women in the state, but also, attempts to maintain fundamental social roles that are seen as defining an ethnic group, as foundations of identity, and for many as uncompromisable. In exploring the complex dynamics of peace, conflict, and tension in Nagaland, Borderland Anxieties offers a window to understanding how gender, politics and anxiety intersect in a borderland state experiencing rapid social, political, and economic changes.
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- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1 Periphery
- 1 ‘The Nagaland State Co-operative Bank Ltd. Welcome You to Nagaland’
- Borderlands, Anxiety, Gender
- Ethnographic Research in Borderlands
- Outline
- References
- 2 Becoming a Borderland
- ‘ILP Identifies illegal immigrants’
- Hills
- Inner Lines, Backward Tracts
- Independence, Conflict
- Conclusion
- References
- 3 Legacies of Conflict
- Nagaland Republic Day
- Militarization, Exception and Periphery
- Serving Smoked Pork to ‘Thugs’
- ‘There’s a big gap in my life, hard to fill’
- Conclusion
- References
- Part 2 Proximity
- 4 Nagaland Opening Up
- Urbanization
- ‘Opening Up’
- Cosmopolitan Aspirations
- State Stadium, Dimapur
- Timepass Ase
- Small Stain on Your Tooth
- New Marginalities in the Liberalizing Borderland
- Conclusion
- References
- 5 ‘Spinsters and Divorced Women’
- ‘Bad things happened’
- (In)equality as Tradition
- Patriarchal Backlash
- Conclusion
- References
- 6 New Politics of Gender at the Border
- ‘Stop Harbouring IBIs. They are Not Your Family Members’
- Sexual Politics and the IBI Menace
- ‘Like Tripura’
- Conclusion
- References
- Closing
- Index
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