Abstract

The Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) in the state of Assam in Northeast India can be described as a landscape of terror since the area has been a stage for recurrent, mostly violent contestations along ethno-religious lines for more than four decades. Over the years, the violence has claimed more than a thousand lives and displaced millions. Using a multi-sited ethnography carried out over more than eleven months of fieldwork in the region, this paper looks at the everyday lives of those affected by the conflict and critiques the notion of spectacular resistance and exceptionalism in the context of Northeast India. This is done by using a phenomenology of lived experience framework to pay closer attention to the distinctly ordinary ways in which populations survive and endure states of dispossession, displacement and abandonment.

摘要

印度东北部阿萨姆邦的博多兰领土自治区 (BTAD) 可以说是一片恐怖景象，因为该地区四十年来一直是沿民族宗教界线经常发生、主要是暴力争论的舞台。多年来，暴力已经夺去了一千多人的生命，数百万人流离失所。本文使用在该地区进行了超过 11 个月的实地调查的多地点人种学研究，审视了受冲突影响的人们的日常生活，并批评了印度东北部背景下壮观的抵抗和例外主义的概念。这是通过使用生活经验的现象学框架来更密切地关注人口生存和忍受剥夺、流离失所和遗弃状态的明显普通方式来完成的。