Challenging the State by Reproducing its Principles.
Contrary to assumptions about the dualist relationship between region and nation, I propose to understand both as simultaneously emerging. An analysis of the rhetoric of the "Gorkhaland" movement that demands a separate union state in India to be carved out of West Bengal demonstrates that although...
| Publicado en: | Asian Ethnology Vol. 72; no. 2; pp. 199 - 221 |
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Nanzan University
2013
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