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Nuclear Desire

Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order

By: Shampa Biswas

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Nuclear Desire

Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order

By: Shampa Biswas

Since its enactment in 1970, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has become one node of a massive, sprawling, multibillion-dollar regime that is considered essential to slowing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons technology. However, according to Shampa Biswas, these well-intentioned efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons deflect attention from a hierarchical global nuclear order dominated by powerful states and capitalist interests that benefit from the status quo. In Nuclear Desire, Biswas proposes that pursuit and production of nuclear power is sustained by this unequal global order whose persistent and daily harmful effects are experienced by some of the most vulnerable bodies around the world. Making a compelling case for nuclear abolition, she shows that the path to nuclear zero is more successfully traversed through the perspective of postcolonialism and the political economy of injustice?rather than through the prism of “security.” In the end, the nonproliferation regime maintains a hierarchy of haves and have-nots, one that reinforces inequalities that run counter to the NPT’s broader goal. Innovative, forcefully argued, and long overdue, Nuclear Desire moves beyond conventional critiques to give scholars and students of international relations new insights into how a more secure world might simultaneously be more peaceful and just.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452943427

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9781452943428

One Hundred Indian Feature Films

An Annotated Filmography

By: Srivastava Banerjee

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One Hundred Indian Feature Films

An Annotated Filmography

By: Srivastava Banerjee

First Published in 1989. One Hundred Indian Films attempts to bring together a representative selection from the first talkies to the present day. The book originated as a project under the National Film Heritage programme at the Centre for Development of Instructional Technology in Delhi, along with the efforts to build up a collection of Indian cinema at the United States Library of Congress.

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226

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Routledge

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1135840989

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9781135840983

Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives

Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

By: Shampa Roy

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Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives

Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

By: Shampa Roy

This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender. It analyses crime-centred fiction and non-fiction in the region to see how actual or imagined crimes related to women were shaped and fashioned into images and narratives for contemporary genteel readers. The writings have been examined within a social-historical context where gender was a fiercely contested terrain for publicly fought debates on law, sexual relations, reform, and identity as moulded by culture, class, and caste. Both canonized literary writings (like those of Bankim Chatterji) as well as non-canonical, popular writings (of writers who have not received sufficient critical attention) are scrutinised in order to examine how criminal offences featuring women (as both victims and offenders) have been narrated in early manifestations of the genre of crime writing in Bangla. An empowered and thought-provoking study, this book will be of special interest to scholars of criminology and social justice, literature, and gender.

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Springer

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1137515988

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True Crime Writings in Colonial India

Offending Bodies and Darogas in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

By: Shampa Roy

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True Crime Writings in Colonial India

Offending Bodies and Darogas in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

By: Shampa Roy

The emergent culture of crime writings in late 19th century colonial Bengal (India) is an interesting testimony to how literature is shaped by various material forces including the market. This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by ‘lowbrow publishing houses’ — infamous for publishing ‘sensational’ and the ‘vulgar’ literature — which had an avid bhadralok (genteel) readership. The volume focuses on select translations of true crime writings by Bakaullah and Priyanath Mukhopadhyay who worked as darogas (Detective Inspectors) in the police department in mid-late nineteenth century colonised Bengal. These published accounts of cases investigated by them are among the very first manifestations of the crime genre in India. The writings reflect their understandings of criminality and guilt, as well as negotiations with colonial law and policing. Further, through a selection of cases in which women make an appearance either as victims or offenders, (or sometimes as both,) this book sheds light on the hidden gendered experiences of the time, often missing in mainstream Bangla literature. Combining a love for suspense with critical readings of a cultural phenomenon, this book will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of comparative literature, translation studies, gender studies, literary theory, cultural studies, modern history, and lovers of crime fiction from all disciplines.

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Taylor & Francis

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100017123X

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9781000171235

Nuclear Desire

Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order

By: Shampa Biswas

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Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order

By: Shampa Biswas

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Nuclear Desire

Nuclear Desire

One Hundred Indian Feature Films

One Hundred Indian Feature Films

Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives

Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives

True Crime Writings in Colonial India

True Crime Writings in Colonial India

Nuclear Desire

Nuclear Desire

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