The Rohingya
An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life
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ISBN:
9780199489350
Publication date:
09/09/2020
Hardback
268 pages
216x140mm
Price: 1495.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199489350
Publication date:
09/09/2020
Hardback
268 pages
Nasir Uddin
This book is good for academics and scholars working on Political Anthropology. It is a detailed enthnographic research on the Rohingyas . Given the emerging South Asis focus among the academic world, it is only imperative, if not obvious, for such book to be more available in the market.,It deals with violence and forced migration studies, human rights and civil war studies which is a very popular and topical area of studies in the market.
Rights: World Rights
Nasir Uddin
Description
The Rohingya are known as the most persecuted minority population in the world. They do not belong to any state as Myanmar striped of the citizenship rendering them stateless and Bangladesh does not recognise them even as refugees. With the case of Rohingya people, the book offers a comprehensive portrait of the hidden transcript of statelessness, non-citizenship, transborder movements and refugee-hood in the legal structure of modern nation-state. It illuminates pains, sufferings, and struggle of carrying out the state of statelessness and refugee-hood at home-state and host-state across the world in general and the Rohingya people in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar in particular. The book with ethnographically informed analysis critically engages with the existing scholarship on migration and refugee studies, asylum seekers and camp-people, and citizenship and human-rights issue with proposing a new theoretical perspective called “subhuman” life. It could be used for a better understanding of an extreme vulnerability and deep uncertainty of human life apart from the broad spectrum of genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing, homicide and domicide. The idea of "subhuman life" offers a new frame of thought towards an understanding of the life in the struggle for existence and the process of extinction. The book thus offers both an appealing theoretical potential and a solid piece of ethnography regarding refugee situation, stateless people, asylum seekers, transborder movements, and camp people with the case of Rohingya.
About the Author
Author Professor Nasir Uddin, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chittagong
The author is a professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong. He is also the visiting Research Felow at the Department of Refugee Studies, University of Oxford, UK.
Nasir Uddin
Table of contents
Content
Acknowledgment
Glossary
Abbreviation
List of tables
List of photographs
Chapter-one
Introduction: The Rohingya, their Textual (Re) presentation, and A Contextual Framing
Chapter-Two
Who are the Rohingyas? Life through Roshang, Arakan and Rakhine state
Chapter-Three
Of Hurting and Hosting: The Rohingyas in the Place of Migration
Chapter-Four
State of Stateless People: The struggle for Existence and the Cry for Survival
Chapter-Five
The (Re) production of Vulnerability: State in Everyday life of Stateless Rohingyas
Chapter-Six
The Story of the 'Subhuman' Life: Untold Pains and Miseries, and Uncertain Futures
Chapter-Seven
Theorising 'Subhuman': Treatments of Rohingyas as if lesser than human being
Chapter-Eight
Conclusion: Looking forward
Bibliography
Appendix
Index
Nasir Uddin
Review
"Nasir Uddin takes a bold step with the groundbreaking new 'subhuman theory' in this book, which is based on his ethnographic research ... The book provides startling theoretical contributions to the social sciences, including political anthropology and International Relations." - Shuva Das and Leo S. F. Lin, International Affairs ,"This book is...a good source of understanding the ongoing Rohingya humanitarian crisis from the affected people's own lived experiences, and the way in which the ethnography has been presented makes this study appealing for researchers." - Md Niamot Ali, South Asia Research
Nasir Uddin
Description
The Rohingya are known as the most persecuted minority population in the world. They do not belong to any state as Myanmar striped of the citizenship rendering them stateless and Bangladesh does not recognise them even as refugees. With the case of Rohingya people, the book offers a comprehensive portrait of the hidden transcript of statelessness, non-citizenship, transborder movements and refugee-hood in the legal structure of modern nation-state. It illuminates pains, sufferings, and struggle of carrying out the state of statelessness and refugee-hood at home-state and host-state across the world in general and the Rohingya people in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar in particular. The book with ethnographically informed analysis critically engages with the existing scholarship on migration and refugee studies, asylum seekers and camp-people, and citizenship and human-rights issue with proposing a new theoretical perspective called “subhuman” life. It could be used for a better understanding of an extreme vulnerability and deep uncertainty of human life apart from the broad spectrum of genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing, homicide and domicide. The idea of "subhuman life" offers a new frame of thought towards an understanding of the life in the struggle for existence and the process of extinction. The book thus offers both an appealing theoretical potential and a solid piece of ethnography regarding refugee situation, stateless people, asylum seekers, transborder movements, and camp people with the case of Rohingya.
About the Author
Author Professor Nasir Uddin, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chittagong
The author is a professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong. He is also the visiting Research Felow at the Department of Refugee Studies, University of Oxford, UK.
Table of contents
Content
Acknowledgment
Glossary
Abbreviation
List of tables
List of photographs
Chapter-one
Introduction: The Rohingya, their Textual (Re) presentation, and A Contextual Framing
Chapter-Two
Who are the Rohingyas? Life through Roshang, Arakan and Rakhine state
Chapter-Three
Of Hurting and Hosting: The Rohingyas in the Place of Migration
Chapter-Four
State of Stateless People: The struggle for Existence and the Cry for Survival
Chapter-Five
The (Re) production of Vulnerability: State in Everyday life of Stateless Rohingyas
Chapter-Six
The Story of the 'Subhuman' Life: Untold Pains and Miseries, and Uncertain Futures
Chapter-Seven
Theorising 'Subhuman': Treatments of Rohingyas as if lesser than human being
Chapter-Eight
Conclusion: Looking forward
Bibliography
Appendix
Index
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