Sovereignty and statelessness in the border enclaves of India and Bangladesh

Jones, Reece

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.09.006

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“…Our analysis thereby aligns with a growing number of political geographers who have propagated ethnography in political geography and the study of everyday constructions of boundaries, community and subjectivities (e.g. Bichsel 2009; Featherstone and Korf 2012; Jones 2009a; Korf 2006; Megoran 2006 2007; Nightingale 2011; Oslender 2007). The geographies of violence and purification that are emerging from these antinomies of community also require a more nuanced study of the micro‐geopolitics (or landscapes) of fear (Hyndman 2007; Pain 2009 2010; Pain and Smith 2009; Tuan 1978) as Appadurai's terminology of ‘fear of small numbers’ implies.…”

Section: Geographies Of Violence and Purificationsupporting

confidence: 56%

“…In this paper, we will move back and forth to those four paradoxes of Kattankudy enclave – not simply as the geography of a war‐ridden place, but in order to explore the antinomies of community ‘with a geographer's sensitivity to territory, location, to mapping and to processes of confinement and exclusion’ (Watts 2000, 8) 1 . Enclave spaces are often spaces of exception, marked by a specific territoriality and governmentality (Jones 2009a 2009b; Sidaway 2007). We will show that in the case of Kattankudy, it was the ‘territorial prisonhood’ of the enclave situation in the eastern Sri Lankan warscape that triggered and sustained a specific governmentality of purification.…”

Section: Enclavementioning

confidence: 99%

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Muslim geographies, violence and the antinomies of community in eastern Sri Lanka

Hasbullah

Korf

2012

Geographical Journal

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This paper studies the intricate relations between violence and the politics of community in a Muslim enclave in the east coast of Sri Lanka. The enclave will not only be studied as a war‐ridden place, but more so in order to explore the antinomies of community that stem from an inherent governmentality that was triggered by the territorial prisonhood of the enclave situation. Violence, as we will show, is not an interruption, but an intensified continuation of politics – of the politics of community and its dynamics of unity and friction, which bring to the fore questions of the relationality of politics/religion, the boundaries of the political in Sri Lanka's Muslim community as well as in Sri Lanka's fragmented and violence‐striven polity more broadly. It will be argued that what is at play is a politics of purification, whereby violence becomes a project of community: violence in the name of purity and an imaginary of community produces ‘antinomies of community’, i.e. the paradoxes of unity and friction that transgress political collectives.

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Section: Geographies Of Violence and Purificationsupporting

confidence: 56%

Section: Enclavementioning

confidence: 99%

Muslim geographies, violence and the antinomies of community in eastern Sri Lanka

Hasbullah

Korf

2012

Geographical Journal

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“…In other words, encampment is the process through which a given space becomes a space of exception through different practices such as bordering (Amoore, 2006;Epstein, 2007;Sparke, 2006), systematic annihilation (Gregory, 2004), neglect (Shewly, 2013), or by being heir to a broader conflict (Boano & Mart en, 2013). Encamped spaces can be formed as interstate frontiers (Hagmann & Korf, 2012), borderlands (Jones, 2009a) and enclaves (Jones, 2009b;Shewly, 2013) or urban localities (Schinkel & Van den Berg, 2011). In this sense we can understand the space of exception, not as a concrete location but as an ever-changing site which materializes through an "unlocalizable process of transformation" (Belcher, Martin, Secor, Simon, & Wilson, 2008: 599).…”

Section: Spaces Of Exception Encampment and Domesticationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonial conquests and the politics of normalization: The case of the Golan Heights and Northern Cyprus

Ram

2015

Political Geography

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a b s t r a c tThe space of exception has been extensively discussed as a location in which governing technologies are deployed through the suspension and manipulation of the norm. The scholarship on the subject has underscored the ways in which various localities can be encamped, which alludes to the dynamic in which spaces of exception can be shaped through the application of various means of sovereign violence that produces new and unpredictable norms. Building on this literature, the article analyzes the ways in which the exception is intentionally used in order to spatially construct the norm. Two case studies are discussed: Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights and the Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus. The article's main aim is to show how the state of emergency, which provided the justification for deploying exceptional meansdoccupation and subsequent colonizationdwas domesticated. By domestication I mean a situation whereby the state of emergency is not fully negated, but rather rearticulated and redeployed in order to reshape the space and transform it so that it is concomitantly both threatening and normal. I go on to show, however, how despite the processes of spatial normalization the state of exception always resurfaces.This article examines how occupying forces deploy exceptional means to reconstruct contested territories so as to normalize and in thus way fortify their presence. Analyzing two case studiesdthe Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights and the Turkish occupation of Northern CyprusdI show that the objective of the normalization process has in each case been different. Israel normalized its presence in the Golan in order to incorporate this region into its own territory, while Turkey has been normalizing its presence in Northern Cyprus in order to craft it as Turkish without fully integrating it into its own body politic. However, and despite these differences, a similar rationale has in both cases led the core statesdIsrael and Turkeydto employ a twofold normalization strategy during the conquest and subsequent occupation.On the one hand, the core states accentuated the geostrategic risks (real or constructed) embodied in the territories captured and presented them as constituting a threat that could be dealt with only through the imposition of a state of emergency and the deployment of exceptional means (e.g., ethnic cleansing, widespread destruction). On the other hand, and simultaneously, the core states strove to transform these contested spaces and reproduce them as normal in order to render them non-threatening.In other words, the core states present the spaces they had occupied as both an exception (a threat that needs to be controlled and managed) and simultaneously as normal. Examining how the strategies employed by the occupying states are informed by this tension, I show that the incongruity cannot be fully managed. The fact that these territories are colonized and are therefore constituted as spaces of exception is ultimately re-exposed.Following a brief literature r...

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“…The total area of the Indian enclaves is 69.6 km2 and the total area of the Bangladeshi enclaves is 49.7 km2. The land area that would actually be exchanged is more unequal because there are more enclaves that are Indian in Bangladesh, the large Bangladeshi enclave of Dahagram would not be transferred, and most of the counter enclaves are Bangladeshi enclaves inside Indian enclaves, which also would not be transferred [14]. During the survey, the people of Dohogram-Angorpota enclave expressed without any hesitation that they would prefer to be Bangladeshi.…”

Section: People's Perception On Enclaves Exchange Between India and Bmentioning

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Lives outside the map: the case of Angorpota-Dohogram Enclave, Bangladesh

Rahman¹

2013

IOSR-JHSS

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Sovereignty and statelessness in the border enclaves of India and Bangladesh

Cited by 80 publications

References 16 publications

Muslim geographies, violence and the antinomies of community in eastern Sri Lanka

Muslim geographies, violence and the antinomies of community in eastern Sri Lanka

Colonial conquests and the politics of normalization: The case of the Golan Heights and Northern Cyprus

Lives outside the map: the case of Angorpota-Dohogram Enclave, Bangladesh

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