The India–Bangladesh Border Fence: Narratives and Political Possibilities

摘要: AbstractThe fencing of the India–Bangladesh border mirrors Scott's understanding “final enclosure” wherein “distance-demolishing technologies” and “modern conceptions sovereignty” converge to demarcate firm boundaries territory from previously ambiguous space (Scott, J. 2009. The Art Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History Southeast Asia, 11. New Haven: Yale University Press). This paper examines different narratives surrounding fence at national level in India borderland itself, focussing on state Meghalaya. These reveal ways is discussed understood political positions taken these spaces. In examining I present two key findings. first that narrated politicized differently borderland. second within borderlands there not a singular “borderland narrative” but several, reflecting dominant polit...