Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories

Gyanendra Pandey

ISBN 10: 0804752648 / ISBN 13: 9780804752640

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2005

Routine Violence focuses on the violence of routine political practices - the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336. . 2005. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9780804752640

Inhaltsangabe:

This book investigates the ideological and political conditions that allow, and sanction, the undisguised political violence of our times. It is concerned with the regnant demands of nationalism and of history writing, and the unity and uniformity upon which these insist.

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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, ...
Verlag: Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New