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Uddipana Goswami, "Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency" (Routledge, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

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The Periphery and the Core of the Assam Movement

Ahum Andalun was a six-year long uprising against the Ahumya speaking political leadership in Assam. The Bora Movement followed and almost all the other communities of Assam rose in revolt against the Ahuuma speaking political leadership. So this is how, you know, the interconnections and the interrelationships between the peripheral communities mutate as much as those between the periphery and the core. For sustainable peace in societies, experiencing intractable conflict, there must be a willingness to break the constant pools of power that exerts itself on others.

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