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Requesting circulation:
Call for Papers to an edited volume on Democracy and Development in the Himalayas
Co-editors: Dr Vibha Arora (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) and Prof. N.Jayaram (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)
Geographically, the Himalayas extend from the modern nation states of Afghanistan and Pakistan in the west towards Nepal, Bhutan, parts of Bangladesh and the Tibet Autonomous region, and Myanamar/Burma in the east. In the middle of this vast mountainous expanse lie the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttranchal, Sikkim, parts of West Bengal, together with the ‘historic seven sisters’ of Northeast India namely Assam, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Nagaland. Political developments in the Himalayan expanse region deeply impact South Asia and it will be erroneous to dismiss them as a ‘borderland’ of insignificance. All ideas of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ are relative given the constant negotiations of boundaries and shifting borders and emergent conflicts within the states of the Indian Union and the other nation-states of this Himalayan region. There can be no ‘centre’ unless the border
is territorially defined and secured. It goes without saying that insurgency and counter-insurgency, boundary conflicts, secessionism and ethnic-nationalism, terrorism, political movements, and factionalism dominate debates on Northern South Asia. The region has been the locus of intense political engagement in the post-colonial period with people forcefully expressing ‘democratic’ aspirations by employing a combination of and either civil protest, non-violent resistance and sometimes engaging in violent confrontations with the government and the power elites to demand cultural rights, citizenship rights, ethnic-territories, political autonomy, and participatory development. The culture and history of the various groups and the region as a whole intersects these political developments to uniquely give direction to their political expressions and democratic aspirations. The aim of this volume is to highlight ongoing political negotiations, understand
the process of democratization, explain the shifting relationship between macro and micro perspectives, discuss the reworking of centre-periphery relations and acknowledge the strategic importance of the Himalayan region for South Asian studies, Sociology and Social Anthropology.
Confirmed Contributors include:
Gerard Toffin (CNRS Paris, France)
Martin Gaenszle (University of Vienna, Austria)
Renske Doorenspleet (University of Warwick) & Bal Gopal Shrestha (University of Leiden)
MonaBhan (DePauw University)
Duncan McDuie-Ra (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Saloni Gupta (University of London, England)
Nayana Bibile (University of Berne, Switzerland)
Nel Vandekerckhove (Ghent University, Belgium)
Fiona McConnell (Univ of London)
Vibha Arora (IIT Delhi)
We are seeking 1-2 other papers to complete this volume. Interested contributors should email abstracts of 250 words with name and affiliation to [log in to unmask] 15th June 2009. Full papers need to be submitted by 1st July 2009.
Many Thanks and looking forward to a good response
Vibha Arora and N.Jayaram (co-editors)
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Vibha Arora, DPhil (Oxon)
http://web.iitd.ac.in/~aurora/
Assistant Professor in Sociology
Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Indian Institute of Technology,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
INDIA
aurora@hss.iitd.ac..in; [log in to unmask]
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