Fraught Fields: Doing Sociology in Violent Sites
In this essay, I reflect on how sociology/social anthropology should examine state engendered violence. Resistance to the Indian nation-state project is one of the many conflicts that plague the country. The northeastern region, consisting of the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura, shares international boundaries with Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh, China, and Nepal. This region has experienced the...