The December issue of the Delhi magazine ‘Seminar’ is just out and it is on: ‘Assam: Unstable Peace: A symposium on politics, society, culture and the challenges of reconciliation.’
Here is the link to the issue: http://www.india-seminar.com/semframe.html But the link will take you only to the cover, the table of contents and to selected articles. The entire issue will become available on line in January. To purchase copies of the magazine please contact: Seminar Publications, F-46 Malhotra Building (1st floor), Janpath, New Delhi 11000. Phone 23316534 and 23316445. Email: [email protected]. The December issue includes the following: THE PROBLEM Posed by Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York CONNECTED HISTORIES Yasmin Saikia, Professor of History, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, ‘RETURNS’ TO THE PAST: VIOLENCE, COUNTER-MEMORY AND ETHICS Amit R. Baishya, Assistant Professor of English, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana ASSAMESE FOOD AND THE POLITICS OF TASTE Zilkia Janer, Associate Professor of Global Studies and Geography, Hofstra University, New York DEMOCRACY, DISSENT, DIVIDES Subir Bhaumik, former BBC correspondent and author THE BODOLAND VIOLENCE AND THE POLITICS OF EXPLANATION Banajit Hussain, researcher and Fellow, Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA), Delhi WHAT’S UP WITH THE TERRITORIAL COUNCIL? Åshild Kolås, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway ASSAM’S LANGUAGE WARRIORS Nabanipa Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi CIVIL SOCIETY POLITICS Nandana Dutta, Professor English, Gauhati University. CHANGING TRENDS OF ELECTORAL POLITICS Sandhya Goswami, Professor of Political Science, Gauhati University AFTER COUNTER-INSURGENCY: POLICING DISSENT IN ASSAM Sanjay Barbora, Associate Professor, TISS North Eastern Regional Centre, Guwahati OF ENDS AND BEGINNINGS: WAR, PEACE AND THE INTERREGNUM Rakhee Kalita, Associate Professor of English, Cotton College, Guwahati THE FICTION OF ASSAMESE AUGUSTS Aruni Kashyap, MFA candidate, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota THE PERSISTENCE OF THE RURAL Amiya Sharma, Executive Director, Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi, Guwahati. HYDROPOWER, MEGA DAMS, AND THE POLITICS OF RISK Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York FURTHER READING Uddipan Dutta, Research Associate, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati BOOKS Jahnavi Barua, REBIRTH (Reviewed by S. Mitra Kalita); Manjeet Baruah, FRONTIER CULTURES: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF ASSAMESE LITERATURE (Reviewed by By Abikal Borah); M.S. Prabhakara, LOOKING BACK INTO THE FUTURE: IDENTITY AND INSURGENCY IN NORTHEAST INDIA (Reviewed by Uddipan Dutta); Arupyoti Saikia, FORESTS AND ECOLOGICAL HISTORY OF ASSAM (Reviewed by Gunnel Cederlöf); Sanghamitra Misra BECOMING A BORDERLAND: THE POLITICS OF SPACE AND IDENTITY IN COLONIAL NORTHEASTERN INDIA (Reviewed by Erik deMaaker); Jayeeta Sharma, EMPIRE’S GARDEN: ASSAM AND THE MAKING OF MODERN INDIA (Reviewed by Sanjib Baruah) and Arupa Patangia Kalita THE STORY OF FELANEE (trans. Deepika Phukan) (Reviewed by Mitra Phukan). COMMENT Kallol Bhattacherjee, journalist, ‘The Week’, Delhi COMMUNICATION Received from Aditya Nigam, CSDS, Delhi BACKPAGE COVER Designed by www.designosis.in _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
