Securitizing colonial metaphors: Insensitivity or strategic oversight?

Notion of security has undergone transformation from the state-centric focus to non-traditional security areas. In the non-traditional security discourse, ‘people, states and fear’ find added if not equal focus.

The post Securitizing colonial metaphors: Insensitivity or strategic oversight? appeared first on The Sangai Express.

Notion of security has undergone transformation from the state-centric focus to non-traditional security areas. In the non-traditional security discourse, ‘people, states and fear’ find added if not equal focus.

The post Securitizing colonial metaphors: Insensitivity or strategic oversight? appeared first on The Sangai Express.

Read more / Original news source: http://www.thesangaiexpress.com/securitizing-colonial-metaphors-insensitivity-strategic-oversight/

State & social movements: Inter-community agitations in Manipur

(contd from previous issue)
An ILP supporter was killed in June 2015 and this led to escalation of the protests and pressures on the government. The government passed the ILP bills in 2015 but was withheld by the Governor for consideration by the Presi…

(contd from previous issue)
An ILP supporter was killed in June 2015 and this led to escalation of the protests and pressures on the government. The government passed the ILP bills in 2015 but was withheld by the Governor for consideration by the President of India. In June 2016, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh told the all-party delegation led by the Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh that the bills were examined by legal experts implying that the bills have been vetoed.

The post State & social movements: Inter-community agitations in Manipur appeared first on The Sangai Express.

Read more / Original news source: http://www.thesangaiexpress.com/state-social-movements-inter-community-agitations-manipur-2/

State and social movements: Inter-community agitations in Manipur

ILP Movement Socio-political movements are invariably embedded in the power structures of the state. The ongoing Inner Line Permit (ILP) movement and the counter agitations in Manipur have also been erected on the shifting power configurations of the state. ILP protagonists led by a section of the Meiteis, the politically dominant community assert that due […]

The post State and social movements: Inter-community agitations in Manipur appeared first on The Sangai Express.

ILP Movement Socio-political movements are invariably embedded in the power structures of the state. The ongoing Inner Line Permit (ILP) movement and the counter agitations in Manipur have also been erected on the shifting power configurations of the state. ILP protagonists led by a section of the Meiteis, the politically dominant community assert that due […]

The post State and social movements: Inter-community agitations in Manipur appeared first on The Sangai Express.

Read more / Original news source: http://www.thesangaiexpress.com/state-social-movements-inter-community-agitations-manipur/