BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201124T170000 RDATE:20210328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211031T020000 RDATE:20220327T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221030T020000 RDATE:20230326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231029T020000 RDATE:20240331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210328T030000 RDATE:20211031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220327T030000 RDATE:20221030T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T030000 RDATE:20231029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T030000 RDATE:20241027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:91bf27bf0495b05101a4dbfd3e86068b CATEGORIES:Atelier « Asie du Sud-Himalaya – Sud-Est asiatique » CREATED:20211108T174836 SUMMARY:Global war, fragmented worlds: culture, coercion and co-option in a ‘political vaccum’ after WWII (Indo-Myanmar frontiers), Aditya Kiran Kakati (IIAS, Leiden) LOCATION:Lesc – salle 308F (3e étage) - 21\, allée de l’Université\, Nanterre\, \, 9 2000\, France DESCRIPTION:

The Second World War (WWII) was a globalising force which fomented new discourses of belonging and modes of political leverage in the imagined national futures of borderland minorities like the ‘hill’ tribes across In do-Myanmar (Burma) frontiers. Competing political loyalties were represente d under different labels – both by state actors, former colonial officials and the various local collaborators and competitors to negotiate political futures for ‘tribal’ groups such as the Nagas spread across India and Burma . Cultural metaphors (like head-hunting) and competition for sovereignty of ten came together to create a peculiar premium on violence as leverage. Sta te and nation-building occurred through selective developmentalism and bord ering to accommodate or exclude minorities in new nation-states.

Such ambiguous policies securitized border-zones and created exclusionary spati al enclosures where conditions for armed resistance could emerge. Both ‘coe rcion’ and ‘development-like’ activities resembled characteristic features of state-making though negotiations with borderland societies, and resistan ce to this has resulted in uneven relations of intimacy with the state. Ult imately, these reified some geographical spaces as ‘dangerous’ and ‘remote’ on the map after a global war, while over-looking the negotiated nature of the production of closures at a time when new international borders emerge d around India’s Eastern Himalayan fringe. The Naga political insurrection also indicates modes of seeking legitimacy through mimetic competition in o rder to be represented and resemble, a sovereign nation-state. Rather than resistance to states, what emerges are alternate claims that sought to fill ‘non-state’ spaces and ended up becoming subsumed within minoritisation pr ocesses.

Articles conseillés :

Bodhisattva Kar, “Head s in the Naga Hills,” in New Cultural Histories of India, ed. Partha Chatterjee and Tapati Guha-Thakurta (Oxford, New York: Oxford University P ress, 2014), 335–69.
Tarak Barkawi, “Peop les, Homelands, and Wars? Ethnicity, the Military, and Battle among British Imperial Forces in the War against Japan,” Comparative Studies in Socie ty and History 46, no. 1 (January 2004): 134–63, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417504000076.
Aditya Kiran Kakati, “Guns, Gifts, and Guerrillas: Knowledge and Objects during World War II in the Indo–Myanmar (Burma) Frontier,” in Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia: Between the Mekong and the Indus, ed. Lipokmar Dzüvichü and Manjeet Baruah (Abingdo n, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019), 132–53.

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The Second World War (WWII) was a globalising force which fomented new discourses of belonging and modes of political lev erage in the imagined national futures of borderland minorities like the ‘h ill’ tribes across Indo-Myanmar (Burma) frontiers. Competing political loya lties were represented under different labels – both by state actors, forme r colonial officials and the various local collaborators and competitors to negotiate political futures for ‘tribal’ groups such as the Nagas spread a cross India and Burma. Cultural metaphors (like head-hunting) and competiti on for sovereignty often came together to create a peculiar premium on viol ence as leverage. State and nation-building occurred through selective deve lopmentalism and bordering to accommodate or exclude minorities in new nati on-states.

Such ambiguous policies securitized border-zones and creat ed exclusionary spatial enclosures where conditions for armed resistance co uld emerge. Both ‘coercion’ and ‘development-like’ activities resembled cha racteristic features of state-making though negotiations with borderland so cieties, and resistance to this has resulted in uneven relations of intimac y with the state. Ultimately, these reified some geographical spaces as ‘da ngerous’ and ‘remote’ on the map after a global war, while over-looking the negotiated nature of the production of closures at a time when new interna tional borders emerged around India’s Eastern Himalayan fringe. The Naga po litical insurrection also indicates modes of seeking legitimacy through mim etic competition in order to be represented and resemble, a sovereign natio n-state. Rather than resistance to states, what emerges are alternate claim s that sought to fill ‘non-state’ spaces and ended up becoming subsumed wit hin minoritisation processes.

Articles conseillés :

B odhisattva Kar, “Heads in the Naga Hills,” in New Cultural Histories of India, ed. Partha Chatterjee and Tapati Guha-Thakurta (Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014), 335–69.
Tarak Barkawi, “Peoples, Homelands, and Wars? Ethnicity, the Military, and Battle among British Imperial Forces in the War against Japan,” Compara tive Studies in Society and History 46, no. 1 (January 2004): 134–63, < a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="htt ps://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417504000076">https://doi.org/10.1017 /S0010417504000076.
Aditya Kiran Kaka ti, “Guns, Gifts, and Guerrillas: Knowledge and Objects during World War II in the Indo–Myanmar (Burma) Frontier,” in Objects and Frontiers in Mode rn Asia: Between the Mekong and the Indus, ed. Lipokmar Dzüvichü and Ma njeet Baruah (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019), 132–53.

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