The December issue of Seminar magazine on the theme 'Assam:Unstable Peace' is now available on line. You can access the following articles published in that issue. Click the following link. Then click 'Go to Issue.' Then click 2012 and then click the link to the December issue.
http://www.india-seminar.com/ SEMINAR #640 December 2012 ASSAM: UNSTABLE PEACE a symposium on politics, society, culture and the challenges of reconciliation • 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 • '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, Guwahati • 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, University of Delhi • CIVIL SOCIETY POLITICS Nandana Dutta, Professor of English, Gauhati University, Guwahati • 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 • 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 A select and relevant bibliography compiled by Uddipan Dutta, Research Associate, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati • BOOKS Reviewed by S. Mitra Kalita, Abikal Borah, Uddipan Dutta, Gunnel Cederläf, Erik de Maaker, Sanjib Baruah and Mitra Phukan _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
