Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (Cultural Memory in the Present) - Softcover

Buch 82 von 213: Cultural Memory in the Present

Pandey, Gyanendra

 
9780804752640: Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0804752648 ISBN 13: 9780804752640
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Much has been written about the "extraordinary" violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices-the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories.

The book takes its material from the history of twentieth-century India: the land of Gandhi and of effective nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule. It asks questions about how particular histories are claimed as the "real" histories of a nation; how the "sacred" nation, and its ("mainstream") culture and politics, come to be constructed; and how a certain inducement to violence, and a collective amnesia regarding that violence, follow from all of this.

This is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times.

No sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gyanendra Pandey is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History at Emory University; a founder member of "Subaltern Studies"; and author of The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (1990) and Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (2001) among other books.

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Much has been written about the “extraordinary” violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices—the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories.
The book takes its material from the history of twentieth-century India: the land of Gandhi and of effective nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule. It asks questions about how particular histories are claimed as the “real” histories of a nation; how the “sacred” nation, and its (“mainstream”) culture and politics, come to be constructed; and how a certain inducement to violence, and a collective amnesia regarding that violence, follow from all of this.
This is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times.
No sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.

Aus dem Klappentext

Much has been written about the extraordinary violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories.
The book takes its material from the history of twentieth-century India: the land of Gandhi and of effective nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule. It asks questions about how particular histories are claimed as the real histories of a nation; how the sacred nation, and its ( mainstream ) culture and politics, come to be constructed; and how a certain inducement to violence, and a collective amnesia regarding that violence, follow from all of this.
This is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times.
No sales in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804752648
ISBN 13 
9780804752640
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
248
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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Breda
4831 GR
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