The Partition Motif in Contemporary Conflicts

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7619-3547-6
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 419 g

This important book is a dialogue on the theme of partition and its far-reaching sociological implications for communal patterns, generational dynamics and individual lives. While the governing imagery of partition is drawn from the context of India and Pakistan, the analysis compares similar processes in the context of Israel and Palestine and East and West Germany. Developing the concept of 'partition-societies', the volume succinctly explains the social, economic and political implications of such divisions.

The lens of partition is used to focus on how societies that have experienced breaks and traumas are organized and constituted and the ways in which they deploy their understanding of the past to reconstruct themselves. The book enquires into ways in which local communities as well as wider national entities use their knowledge of the past. The international contributors to this volume show how this separation was of significance not only in the strict political sense but formed the basis for long-term processes of identity, of memory and inspiration, and the very basis on which different societies were organized.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jassal, Smita Tewari

Ben-Ari, Eyal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Udavastu Jibaner Kabya–The Rhyme of Refugee Life - Namita Chowdhury
The Partition Motif: Concepts, Comparisons, Considerations - Smita Tewari Jassal and Eyal Ben-Ari
PART ONE: BORDERS, SPACES AND MAPS
Partition as a Challenge to the "Homogeneous" German Nation - Ina Dietzch
De-partitioning Society: Contesting Borders of the Mind in Bangladesh and India - Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff and Ellen Bal
The Cartographic Imagination: British Mandate Palestine - Efrat Ben Zeev
Constructing Palestine through Surveillance Practices - Elia Zureik
PART TWO: NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE AND DISPLACEMENT
Partition Violence in Memory and Performance: The Punjabi Dhadi Tradition - Michael Nijhawan
Memories of a Lost Home: Partition in the Fiction of the Subcontinent - Alok Bhalla
A Homeland Torn Apart: Partition in a Palestinian Refugee Camp - Nina Gren
PART THREE: Social Structures, Constructions and Images
Partition and Partings: The Paradox of German Kinship Ties - Tatjana Thelen
Partition of Bengal or Creation of a "Nation"? Memories of Difference - Habibul Haque Khondker
The Surung (Tunnel) of Madanpura: Partition Motif in Benaras - Vasanthi Raman
Living in the Shadow of Emergency in Palestine - Honaida Ghanim
Partition in Contemporary Struggles Over Religious Spaces in Bhopal - Ursula Rao
PART FOUR: HEALING, RECONCILIATION AND COMPARATIVE DIMENSIONS
Collective Memory and Obstacles to Reconciliation Efforts in Israel - Zvi Bekerman
North Korea South Korea: One Korea and the Relevance of German Reunification - John Borneman
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ben-Ari, Eyal
Eyal Ben-Ari was Professor of Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is currently Director of the Kinneret Center for Society, Security and Peace at Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee. He has carried out fieldwork on Japanese white-collar suburbs, institutions of early childhood education and the Japanese community in Singapore. In Israel, he has studied Jewish saint-worship and social and cultural aspects of the Israeli military. He is currently engaged in projects on Special Operations Forces, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, anthropological approaches to civil-military relations and creativity in the creative industries.

Jassal, Smita Tewari
Smita Tewari Jassal, anthropologist, teaches Gender and Development at Columbia University, New York. She has taught at SAIS, John Hopkins University and American University, Washington DC. She was Visiting Fellow at the Truman Institute for Peace, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2003-05) and Senior Fellow at the Center for Women’s Development Studies (1995-2002). Author of Daughters of the Earth: Women and Land in Uttar Pradesh (2001), her forthcoming book explores gender constructs and oral traditions of marginalized castes and communities.