ABSTRACT
The introduction frames the book’s approach to power, patriarchy, and marginality that is based on a gendered understanding of ethno-nationalist conflicts in geopolitical peripheries of modern Asian nation-states. It familiarizes the reader with the specific location of the book in Assam in Northeast India, where it studies the interactions of power and patriarchy with diverse marginalized entities – gendered, geopolitical, and ethnic – that sustain conflicts. Emerging from conflicts and finding peace in Northeast India is crucial to establishing stability in the contiguous borderlands of South, East, and Southeast Asia. The introduction presents to the reader the methodologies and sources that inform and enrich the study conducted for this book. It also situates the book in the existing literature on feminist research in (and on) Asia.
