Tropicality’ and wildness

Experiential travel writing and ‘making up’ of land and people in nineteenth century Assam

Bibliographic Data

ID6039705
AuthorsBikash Sarma (0000-0002-4624-6482, Jawaharlal Nehru University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume21
Issue1
Pages58-80
Publication date2020-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Ethnicity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1463-1369 • E-ISSN: 1469-2953
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14631369.2018.1493912
OpenAlexW2830191016
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

The paper attempts to understand the genealogy of certain ‘spatial’ and conceptual dichotomies and categories pertaining to India’s North East. Representation of the geography, climate and simultaneously the dwellers of this space since middle of nineteenth century still reverberates in contemporary knowledge production about the region. These discursive practices for more than two and a half century had been (re)organizing and inscribing space, disciplining subjectivity. This problematic of representation was selectively incorporated into the biography of the ‘modern nation state’ in India that further accentuated the dichotomies and categories. The colonial dichotomy of ‘nature/culture’ staged, performed and articulated by the practices of representation enacted geographically determined social relations. These practices of representation operate not only at the level of discourse but also at the cultural, political, geographical and psychological domains. It would be crucial not only to understand the long sequence of representation but also to understand the material effects

Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Experiential learning · Geography · Literature · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Travel writing · Wildness · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy

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