Everyday Peace? Politics, Citizenship and Muslim Lives in India

• 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
• Examines the ways in which geographical concepts such as space, place, and scale can inform and problematize understandings of peace
• Redefines the politics of peace, as well as concepts of citizenship, agency, secular politics, and democracy
• Based on over 14 months of qualitative and archival research in the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India

Philippa Williams is Lecturer in Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Her research and teaching intersect political, economic, and development geography, with a focus on everyday life in India and its transnational community. Her work investigates citizenship, development and justice, economic transformations, and the political economy of violence and non-violence. She is currently working on research projects in New Delhi and London funded by the British Academy, Royal Geographical Society, and Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme. Her work has been published in leading journals, including Annals of the Association of American Geographers and Citizenship Studies. She is co-editor of Geographies of Peace (2014) and Secretary for the British Association for South Asian Studies.

Series Editors’ Preface viii

Acknowledgements ix

List of Abbreviations xii

Glossary xiv

List of Figures xix

1 Introduction 1

2 The Scalar Politics of Peace in India 35

3 Making Peace Visible in the Aftermath of Terrorist Attacks 67

4 Political life: Lived Secularism and the Possibility of Citizenship 90

5 Civic Space: Playing with Peace and Security/Insecurity 109

6 Economic Peace and the Silk Sari Market 138

7 Becoming Visible: Citizenship, Everyday Peace and the Limits of Injustice 159

8 Conclusions: Questioning Everyday Peace 176

References 191

Index 213

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