Borderland Anxieties

Dr. Matthew Wilkinson is an ethnographer with a special focus on frontiers, borderlands, and liberalization in Asia and South Asia. His research spans a wide range of specialties, but centres on processes of rupture and disruption in complex and unsettled areas. Dr. Wilkinson has a special interest in unpacking ‘messy’ social and political dynamics associated with peacebuilding, development, and liberalization in India and Bangladesh. Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

• Part 1: Periphery, 1. 'The Nagaland State Co-operative Bank Ltd. Welcome You to Nagaland', 2. Becoming a Borderland, 3. Legacies of Conflict, Part 2: Proximity, 4. Nagaland Opening Up, 5. 'Spinsters and Divorced Women', 6. New Politics of Gender at the Border, Conclusion, References, Closing