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Jellyfishing in the Postcolonial Nation State: Baltistan through the Zomia Lens

Asian ethnology, 2021-01, Vol.80 (1), p.57-92 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Nanzan University Anthropological Institute ;ISSN: 1882-6865

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  • Title:
    Jellyfishing in the Postcolonial Nation State: Baltistan through the Zomia Lens
  • Author: Magnusson, Jan
  • Subjects: Baltistan ; connectivity ; Himalayas ; internal colonialism ; Samhällsvetenskap ; self-rule ; Social Sciences ; Social Work ; Socialt arbete ; Sociologi ; Sociology ; Special Issue: South Asian Nationalisms ; Zomia
  • Is Part Of: Asian ethnology, 2021-01, Vol.80 (1), p.57-92
  • Description: The Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 divided the western Himalayan region of Baltistan in two parts. Being subject to internal colonization and nation-making by the two postcolonial nation states, the Balti community, like many other communities in the Himalayan region, has recently voiced demands for self-rule and experienced a cultural revival. The situation in Baltistan is here seen through a Zomia lens, focusing on what James Scott (2009) terms “jellyfish” strategies of the community’s history, language, and culture to avoid being governed. This strategy allows for the community’s escape from their rulers into a new, “virtual friction of terrain” in the form of ICT (information communications technology) and the internet. This article points out that South Asian minority communities like the Balti often find themselves suspended between demands of self-rule and a politics of development where they compete over access to the resources of the nation state. A preliminary history of connectivity in Baltistan is also included.
  • Publisher: Nanzan University
  • Language: English;Swedish
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1882-6865
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