Everyday Peace?

<b>Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAG</b><br /><br />Providing important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu-Muslim community.<br /><br /> <ul> <li>Challenges normative understandings of Hindu-Muslim relations as relentlessly violent and the notion of peace as a romantic endpoint occurring only after violence and political maneuverings</li> <li>Examines the ways in which geographical concepts such as space, place, and scale can inform and problematize understandings of peace</li> <li>Redefines the politics of peace, as well as concepts of citizenship, agency, secular politics, and democracy</li> <li>Based on over 14 months of qualitative and archival research in the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India</li> </ul>