Everyday Peace? Politics, Citizenship and Muslim Lives in India

Providing important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu–Muslim community. Challenges normative understandings of Hindu–Muslim relations as relentlessly violent and the notion of peace as a romantic endpoint occurring only after violence and political maneuverings Examines the ways in which geographical concepts such as space, place, and scale can inform and problematize understandings of peace Redefines the politics of peace, as well as concepts of citizenship, agency, secular politics, and democracy Based on over 14 months of qualitative and archival research in the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India INDICE: Series Editor PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsGlossaryList of Figures and PhotographsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The scalar politics of peace of IndiaChapter 3: Making peace visible in the aftermath of terrorist attacksChapter 4: Political life: lived secularism and the possibility of citizenshipChapter 5: Civic space: playing with peace and spaces of security/insecurityChapter 6: Economic peace and the silk sari marketChapter 7: Becoming visible: citizenship, everyday peace and the limits of injusticeChapter 8: Conclusions. Questioning everyday peaceReferences

• ISBN: 978-1-118-83781-8
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 09/10/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés