A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands

Drawing On A Decade Of Fieldwork In The Borderlands Of Northern Bangladesh And Eastern India, A Thousand Tiny Cuts Chronicles The Slow Transformation Of A Connected Region Into National Borderlands And Shows The Foundational Place Of Gender And Sexuality In The Meaning And Management Of Threat In Relation To Mobility. It Recasts A Singular Focus On Border Fences And Border Crossings To Show, Instead, That Bordering Is An Expansive And Accumulative Reordering Of Relations Of Value. Devaluations-of Agrarian Land And Crops, Borderland Youth Undesirable As Brides And Grooms In Their Respective National Hinterlands, Disconnection Of Regional Infrastructures, And Social And Physical Geographies Disordered By Surveillance-proliferate As The Costs Of Militarization Across This Ostensibly Friendly Border. Through A Textured Ethnography Of The Gendered Political Economy Of Mobility Across A Postcolonial Borderlands In South Asia, This Ambitious Book Challenges Anthropological Understanding Of The Violence Of Bordering, Migration And Citizenship, And Transnational Inequalities That Are Based On Euro-american Borders And Security Regimes-- Provided By Publisher.