The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life

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Professor Nasir Uddin (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chittagong)

The Rohingya

An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life

Professor Nasir Uddin (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chittagong)

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English

OUP India
14 October 2020

Social & cultural anthropology; Human rights; Early man

"The Rohingya are known as the most persecuted minority population in the world. They do not belong to any state as Myanmar striped of the citizenship rendering them stateless and Bangladesh does not recognise them even as refugees. With the case of Rohingya people, the book offers a comprehensive portrait of the hidden transcript of statelessness, non-citizenship, transborder movements and refugee-hood in the legal structure of modern nation-state. It illuminates pains, sufferings, and struggle of carrying out the state of statelessness and refugee-hood at home-state and host-state across the world in general and the Rohingya people in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar in particular. The book with ethnographically informed analysis critically engages with the existing scholarship on migration and refugee studies, asylum seekers and camp-people, and citizenship and human-rights issue with proposing a new theoretical perspective called “subhuman” life. It could be used for a better understanding of an extreme vulnerability and deep uncertainty of human life apart from the broad spectrum of genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing, homicide and domicide. The idea of ""subhuman life"" offers a new frame of thought towards an understanding of the life in the struggle for existence and the process of extinction. The book thus offers both an appealing theoretical potential and a solid piece of ethnography regarding refugee situation, stateless people, asylum seekers, transborder movements, and camp people with the case of Rohingya."

By: Professor Nasir Uddin (Professor of Anthropology Professor of Anthropology University of Chittagong)
Imprint: OUP India
Dimensions: Height: 221mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 404g
ISBN: 9780199489350
ISBN 10: 0199489351
Pages: 259
Publication Date: 14 October 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The author is a professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Chittagong. He is also the visiting Research Felow at the Department of Refugee Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

Reviews for The Rohingya: An Ethnography of 'Subhuman' Life

Nasir Uddin takes a bold step with the groundbreaking new 'subhuman theory' in this book, which is based on his ethnographic research ... The book provides startling theoretical contributions to the social sciences, including political anthropology and International Relations. * Shuva Das and Leo S. F. Lin, International Affairs *