Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East

In the twenty—first century, political conflict and militarization have come to constitute a global social condition rather than a political exception. Military occupation increasingly informs the politics of both democracies and dictatorships, capitalist and formerly socialist regimes, raising questions about its relationship to sovereignty and the nation—state form. Israel and India are two of the world's most powerful postwar democracies yet have long—standing military occupations. Pakis...