Description
Plurality in International Relations begets a multitude of “narratives within narratives” intertwined with both universal and differentiated experiences. Within a non western IR theory, a decolonial approach to the IR discipline encapsulates an indigenous peoples experience that explains the political world through IR and vis-a-versa.
Nagas, an indigenous tribal community in India experienced a peculiar nationhood, one of which has sub-nationalism and a longest armed conflict with the Indian state. The current protracted peace process assumes certain stability and normalcy however it is ridden with sharp undercurrents. The public memory of a long drawn decade of violence, and a public anxiety around the questions of political rights and peace in the region constitutes everyday life in the region. In between assimilation within the national mainland in political administration, and an ethnic political identity in a neoliberal, and a globalized world merits the attention of it through a theoretical standpoint. Questions of Indigeneity from a community land ownership to the politics of it at both national and international merits analysis in forming the possibilities of Naga international theory.
Through relational theory this paper seeks to explore the question of state and sovereignty within the Naga experience of nationhood, security, of border, of the tribal community across international borders and the everyday experience of ethnic and gender based violence and a peace process.
