About the Book: Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur
For a city in Indias northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday
militarization and violence of Asias longest-running separatist conflict,
Dimapur remains off the map. With no glorious past or arenas where events of
consequence to mainstream India have taken place, Dimapurs essence is
experienced in oral histories of events, visual archives of the everyday life,
lived reality of military occupation, and anxieties produced in making urban
space out of tribal space. Ceasefire City captures the dynamics of Dimapur. It
brings together the fragmented sensibilities granted and contested in particular
spaces and illustrates the embodied