Revolting bodies, hysterical state: Women protesting the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (1958)

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 299-311

  Gaikwad, Namrata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Haunting; Manipur; Modernity; State of exception; Violence; Women's political protests

Indexed keywords

ARMED FORCES; AUTONOMY; COMPLEXITY; HYSTERESIS; INDEPENDENCE; MARGINALIZATION; MILITARY GOVERNMENT; MILITARY INTERVENTION; MODERNITY; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; POPULAR PROTEST; POST-COLONIALISM; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MANIPUR; SOUTH ASIA;

MEIRA;

EID: 70449429473     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: 1469364X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09584930903108986     Document Type: Article

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