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Chapter 1 Between Sedition and Seduction: Thinking Censorship in South Asia William Mazzarella and Raminder Kaur Censorship has been getting a lot of publicity in South Asia recently. The mids alone saw a veritable carnival of controversies over the line between the acceptable and the unacceptable in public culture. By way of example, one might point to the uproar in over the alleged obscenity of Madhuri Dixit’s song-and-dance sequence, Choli ke peeche kya hai [What lies behind the blouse?1 And that is just India. In November , Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s State of Emergency suspended the Constitution for a third time. Independent news stations were forced off the air, hundreds of protesting journalists and lawyers were arrested and the Supreme Court was stacked with clients of the regime. But this relatively dramatic move – in some ways reminiscent of the much more extended Emergency imposed by Indira Gand

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International Relations in South Asia: Search for an Alternative Paradigm , , ,

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgements
International Relations in South Asia
Distant Futures and Alternative Presents for South Asia
Identity without Exceptionalism
Our Region Their Theories
Pluralism, Democracy and Ethnic Conflict Resolution
The Westphalian State in South Asia and Future Directions
Nepal
Intra-State/Inter-State Conflicts in South Asia
The Agent-Structure Problem and India’s External Security Policy
Can Non-Provocative Defence Work for Pakistan?
Exploring the Linkages between Rights and Security in South Asia
States in Crisis, Subalternity and Security Stakes
A Critique of Contemporary Liberal IR Theory from a South Asian Standpoint
Stripping Women, Securing the Sovereign ‘National’ Body
About the Editor and Contributors
Index

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International Relations in South Asia

International Relations in South Asia Search for an Alternative Paradigm

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Occupy movement

– protests against socioeconomic inequality

The Occupy movement was an international populistsocio-political movement that expressed motstånd to social and economic inequality and to the perceived lack of real democracy around the world. It aimed primarily to advance social and economic justice and different forms of democracy. The movement has had many different scopes, since local groups often had different focuses, but its prime concerns included how large corporations and the global financial system control the world in a way that disproportionately benefits a minority, undermines democracy and causes instability.^[12]

The first Occupy protest to receive widespread attention, Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park, Lower Manhattan, began on 17 September By 9 October, Occupy protests had taken place or were ongoing in over cities across 82 countries, and in over communities in the United States.^{[13][14][15][16]}