[meetyeti] Fwd: Fw: Fwd: H-ASIA: CFP State & Society in North East India, New Delhi, Feb 26-28, 2014
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Date: Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:26 AM
Subject: Fw: Fwd: H-ASIA: CFP State & Society in North East India,
New Delhi, Feb 26-28, 2014
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Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Academic and everyday debates on North East India have generally been
dominated by themes on ethnicity, tribe and nation. For many scholars
working on North East India, these themes have been major academic
research areas from around the 1980s. While one may consider this as
the reflection of embeddedness of the people around such categories,
the role of the state with regard to these categories of tribe,
ethnicity, nation, civic institutions and everyday civil society
spaces has been less explored. One such area of exploration could be
the relationship between the state and society. A state-society
analytical framework may help to understand historically the location
of state as a political unit and practices in North East India. This
also opens the scope to investigate state representing society as its
integral part or the society as resisting or autonomous spaces to the
state.
Pre-colonial states of the present North East either had the organic
model of state and society or the model of state where society evaded
state making processes or remained autonomous from the state.
Comprising the state making experiences in both hills and valleys,
while the organic model involved a system of clans and chiefs?
representation in state making, in the latter model, state making was
through military expeditions, mobilisation of labour, classification
of people, etc. These models of state-society were historically
co-existent. However, under the colonial regime the state-society
relations were reframed to construct the empire?s frontier and
territorial enclaves. After Independence, the new nation state of
India then further reconstructed these polities and societies in new
frames of state-society relations.
The conference also seeks to explore how the modern Indian state as
legal-rational authority transforms, develops and governs polities and
societies of North East India. It is equally necessary to explore how
the people of the region experience and interpret the state in this
regard. For this, the discussion on state needs a distinction between
state as the "structure of practices" and the "effects of the
structure of state" on the lives of people. In other words, while one
may look at state as the legal-rational entity, there is further scope
for understanding state through the everyday experiences. The
conference wishes to emphasize on the latter.
An additional focus of the conference would be on state practices and
reactions or resistances of the people to these state-making
practices. While the process of resistant nationalisms in the region
has continued, in recent times, the processes of electoral democracy,
neoliberal economic policies, and rural developmental schemes have
brought different dynamics to the state-society relations. Increasing
demands for reservation, autonomy and alternative arrangements under
the Constitution of India are parts of these changes and
contestations.
The conference invites papers on the following broad themes:
* State formation and society
* Writing histories of state and society
* Social imaginaries and politics of nationalism
* State's classification of people
* Religion and state
* Technology, state and people
* Civil society and state
* Demand for reservation and autonomy
* Electoral politics, developmental schemes and power politics
* Militarism, violence and cultures of impunity
* Art practices
* Media, state and people
* Diary, biography and autobiography as sites of people's experiences
Interested researchers are invited to submit an abstract of 200?300
words along with a brief CV latest by 25 November, 2013. Selected
abstracts will be informed by 5 December 2013. Full papers are to be
submitted by 31 January, 2014.
All communications should be addressed to:
G. Amarjit Sharma, Convener, at neispjnu@xxxxxxxxx or g.amarjit@xxxxxxxxx.
Co-conveners: Lipokmar Dzuvichu, Manjeet Baruah, Kh. Bijoykumar Singh
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