| Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East Subjects: Military occupation -- Social aspects -- South Asia; Military occupation -- Social aspects -- Middle East; Militarism -- Social aspects -- South Asia; Militarism -- Social aspects -- Middle East; Ethnic conflict -- South Asia; Ethnic conflict -- Middle Ea; Everyday Occupations engages visual culture and the ethnography of space, satire and parody, poetry and political critique to examine militarization as it is wielded as a cultural and political tool, and as it is experienced as a material form of violence and symbolic domination. Kamala Visweswaran is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas-Austin, and author most recently of Un/common Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference and Perspectives on Modern South Asia. |