Maisnam Arnapal
Biographic Data
| ID | 6736653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maisnam Arnapal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maisnam |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnapal |
| SIGNATURE | ARNAPAL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California System |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3569-0358 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Resisting Militarized and Ethnonationalist Violence
The ongoing ethnic conflict in the Indian state of Manipur that began in May 2023 has raised the highly contentious question: Who counts as Indigenous in Manipur? Political and public discourse alike have conjured a reductive and divisive iteration of Indigeneity during the ethnic violence. It is not incidental that this resonates with the global right-wing playbook of the day in which various forms of ethnonationalism and subnationalism frame ce…
Between ‘Cheeni’ and ‘Nupi Maanbi’
The 2020 crime thriller web series Paatal Lok featured a Nepali trans woman by the name of Mary Lyngdoh who is referred to as ‘Cheeni’ (a racial epithet for persons from India’s Northeast region and East Asia). The series has been lauded for its inclusive representation of a transgender actor, Henthoi Mairembam from Manipur, yet the choice of a Khasi name, ‘Mary Lyngdoh’, for a Nepali character as well as the use of ‘Cheeni’ as an alias raise mul…
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Between ‘Cheeni’ and ‘Nupi Maanbi’
The 2020 crime thriller web series Paatal Lok featured a Nepali trans woman by the name of Mary Lyngdoh who is referred to as ‘Cheeni’ (a racial epithet for persons from India’s Northeast region and East Asia). The series has been lauded for its inclusive representation of a transgender actor, Henthoi Mairembam from Manipur, yet the choice of a Khasi name, ‘Mary Lyngdoh’, for a Nepali character as well as the use of ‘Cheeni’ as an alias raise mul…
Resisting Militarized and Ethnonationalist Violence
The ongoing ethnic conflict in the Indian state of Manipur that began in May 2023 has raised the highly contentious question: Who counts as Indigenous in Manipur? Political and public discourse alike have conjured a reductive and divisive iteration of Indigeneity during the ethnic violence. It is not incidental that this resonates with the global right-wing playbook of the day in which various forms of ethnonationalism and subnationalism frame ce…
Gender, Security, and Conflict (2 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works) · collective care (1 work) · Cultural assimilation (1 work) · Ethnic nationalism (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · Hindu nationalism (1 work) · Hindutva (1 work)