{"product_id":"sovereign-atonement-citizenship-territory-and-the-state-at-the-bangladesh-india-border-hardback-9781009423359","title":"Sovereign Atonement; Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border (Hardback) 9781009423359","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSovereign Atonement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCitizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStudies political geographies, geopolitics, and nationalistic discourse by bridging two paradoxes - 'sovereign' and 'atonement.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMd Azmeary Ferdoush (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009423359, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e222 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Azmeary Ferdoush's inquiry into contentious territorialities is an innovative intervention into a variety of disciplinary issues: theories of sovereignty, alternative cartographies, global temporalities, and contemporary South Asian politics. It is essential reading for political theorists, geographers, international relations scholars, and area specialists.' Michael J. Shapiro, author of Punctuations: How the Arts Think the Political\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host state territories in 2015. Sovereign Atonement focuses on the protracted territorial exchange and experiences of the newly accepted Bangladeshi citizens. It grapples with one broad question: why did the state assume an active role in smoothing the once excluded population's experiences into their inclusion within the sovereign project? The book dives deep into an ethnographic and historical reading of the everyday state, land and territory, informality, (non)state actors, and performance of sovereignty. Furthermore, it troubles the often taken-for-granted understanding of exception, governance, and citizenship. As such, Ferdoush offers a retake on the two seemingly contradictory concepts -'sovereign' and 'atonement'- to demonstrate that bridged together these concepts as sovereign atonement enables a novel way of appreciating geopolitical narratives, political geographies, and nationalistic discourse in South Asia and beyond.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: remnants, nations, and the sovereign\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sovereign atonement\u003cbr\u003e 2. From 'sensitive' to 'symbolic spaces'\u003cbr\u003e 3. Land and citizenship as technologies of territory\u003cbr\u003e 4. Everyday governance: ambiguity, accountability, and abundance\u003cbr\u003e 5. Infrastructure, belonging, and the state\u003cbr\u003e 6. Refusal and tolerance\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: A note on methods\u003cbr\u003e References.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20%5BJHB%5D%22\"\u003eJHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52502956015896,"sku":"9781009423359","price":68.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009423359i.jpg?v=1786321239","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sovereign-atonement-citizenship-territory-and-the-state-at-the-bangladesh-india-border-hardback-9781009423359","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}