num_pages: 436
description: An innovative collection of essays on the turmoil spreading across South Asia Contesting Nation sheds light on how violencein wars of direct and indirect conquestmarks the present. Featuring contributions by distinguished South Asian women scholars the book offers inspired gendered and contested histories of the present exploring nation-making and its intersections with projects of militarization and cultural assertion modernization and globalization.The contributors to this volume consider such turbulent events as the Gujarat carnage of 2002 post-9/11 mobilizations and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq shedding light on the force with which brutal events encompass lives and disfigure communities. This powerful book examines the very borders such brutality maintains and its intimate and lasting effects on bodies and memories.
language: None
title: Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia: Notes on the Postcolonial Present
publisher: Zubaan Books