Hi everyone,
I am a PhD candidate at the Department of English, McGill University. My research is focused on the representation of militarised environments in the Eastern Himalayan region. I am looking for a Chair, discussant and participants in a panel on frontiers and the idea of constructing homelands.
The panel will discuss inter-disciplinary imagination of homelands by examining the legacies of colonial regimes, postcolonial state, and capitalism. By examining the production and consolidation of post-1940 cartography, the panel explores how frontiers and borderlands amplify the tensions of regional, national and transnational encounters. Through military, cultural, economic or religious influences, the frontier intensifies asymmetric relations of power heightened by anxieties of globalization and coercive nationalization. As a continent replete with intense ethnic, linguistic, racial, and religious diversity, the frontier complicates notions of sovereignty and re-territorialization. Questions of indigeneity, national identity and territory therefore, are crucial to the imagination of belonging and unbelonging to a place. This panel foregrounds how are frontiers or borderlands produced, narrated, resisted or reclaimed.
If you are interested to Chair the panel, or would like further details, please send me an email at, sainico.ningthoujam@mail.mcgill.ca
Additionally, if you would like to present a paper, please send me an abstract of 250 words and your bio note.
Excited for thoughtful collaborations!
Best,
Sainico
Sainico Ningthoujam, McGill University
sainico.ningthoujam@mail.mcgill.ca
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Sainico Ningthoujam
McGill University
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