The Politics of Border Abolition: Temsula Ao and the Northeast Borderlands of India

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3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
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Brunei Gallery
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Room B103 (Brunei Gallery Building)

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Speaker: Dr. Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary, University of London); Discussant: Dr. Meera Sabaratnam (SOAS, University of London)

Temsula Ao is one of the most prominent writers of comtemporary Nagaland. Born when the Naga Hills were still administered by the British, Ao grew up when the Indian government drew ever more elaborate schemes to control and taxonomise the region, she has borne witness, in both her lived experienced and her scholarship, to the changing political landscape of the Naga Hills. Through a tarrying with Ao’s work, talk paper interrogates the multiple resonances of intervention – colonial, postcolonial, invasive, and cursory to explore the ways in which intervention is experienced, theorised and resisted in border regions.

 

Dr Nivi Manchanda is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. She is interested in questions of racism, empire, and borders and has published in, among other journals, International Affairs, Security Dialogue, Millennium, Current Sociology, and Third World Quarterly. She is the co-editor of Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line (Routledge, 2014). Her monograph Imagining Afghanistan: the History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2020) was awarded the LHM Ling First Outstanding Book Prize by the British International Studies Association. She sits on the editorial board of International Studies Quarterly, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and Security Dialogue. She was the co-editor in chief of the journal Politics from 2018 to 2021.

Zoom link: https://soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93613669409?pwd=YkJtakNZQ2NJaVNFTlJvSkdtYmZiQT09