Spaces of Conflict in Everyday Life: Perspectives across Asia
Conflicts are everyday situations and experiences with which people have to cope. Focusing on particularly conflict-prone parts of Asia, the contributions to this book analyze the dynamics of conflicts from the perspectives of the actors involved, and pay particular attention to aspects like mobilization, exclusion, segregation, the role of institutions and the construction of antagonistic identities. The book gathers case studies based on long-term fieldwork from conflicts in Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir.
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Spaces of Conflict in Everyday Life: Perspectives across Asia
Conflicts are everyday situations and experiences with which people have to cope. Focusing on particularly conflict-prone parts of Asia, the contributions to this book analyze the dynamics of conflicts from the perspectives of the actors involved, and pay particular attention to aspects like mobilization, exclusion, segregation, the role of institutions and the construction of antagonistic identities. The book gathers case studies based on long-term fieldwork from conflicts in Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir.
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Spaces of Conflict in Everyday Life: Perspectives across Asia

Spaces of Conflict in Everyday Life: Perspectives across Asia

by Martin Sökefeld (Editor)
Spaces of Conflict in Everyday Life: Perspectives across Asia

Spaces of Conflict in Everyday Life: Perspectives across Asia

by Martin Sökefeld (Editor)

Overview

Conflicts are everyday situations and experiences with which people have to cope. Focusing on particularly conflict-prone parts of Asia, the contributions to this book analyze the dynamics of conflicts from the perspectives of the actors involved, and pay particular attention to aspects like mobilization, exclusion, segregation, the role of institutions and the construction of antagonistic identities. The book gathers case studies based on long-term fieldwork from conflicts in Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783837630244
Publication date: 01/26/2016
Series: Culture and Social Practice
Pages: 226
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Martin Sökefeld completed his doctorate at the University of Tübingen and his habilitation at the University of Hamburg. Since 2008, he is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at LMU Munich. He works in South Asia, Europe and Turkey on topics including natural disasters, migration, diaspora, identity and transnational politics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Spaces of Conflict in Everyday Life: An Introduction Martin Sökefeld 9

Shifting Borders: Coping Strategies of Inhabitants in the Aftermath of the Osh Conflict, Kyrgyzstan Aksana Ismailbekova 33

Understanding Mobilisation Processes in Conflict through Framing: The Case of Inter-Communal Conflict in the Batken Province, Kyrgyzstan Khushbakht Hojiev 57

Institution-Centred Conflict Research: A Methodological Approach and its Application in East Afghanistan Jan Koehler 83

Land-based Conflict in Afghanistan: On the Right of Pre-emption (shuf'a) as 'Back-Channel' Diplomacy and a Show of Indignation Nick Miszak 115

Not in the Master Plan: Dimensions of Exclusion in Kabul Katja Miejke 135

Negotiating Space in the Conflict Zone of Kashmir: The Borderlanders' Perspective Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra 163

Exclusionary Infrastructures: Crisis and the Rise of Sectarian Hospitals in Northern Pakistan Emma Varley 187

Notes on the Contributors 221

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