A Little Taste of Freedom

Crosby, Emilye

doi:10.5149/uncp/9780807856383

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“…The geographical space embedded in those memories, from being 'merely an area of space', evolved into a 'space with meaning: a territory'. 6 The 'shared memories' became territorial markers that served as 'the classificatory distinction of a "we" in contrast to a "them"', 7 which was unleashed in the 'aspirational maps' of 'Greater Mizoram'.…”

Section: Contours Of Mizo Identity and Their Mental Mapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maps, Mission, Memory and Mizo Identity

Dingluaia

2018

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission St

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This article will examine the role of imperial maps, Christian mission, shared memories and collective consciousness in the formation of Mizo identity. Arguing that imperial maps, supposedly based upon objective European science, were meant to suit specific purposes and were laden with deeper agendas, this article will maintain that other aspiring maps also depicted conflicting claims to territory and overlooked specific details rather than giving factual descriptions. This article will look at how borders and boundaries thus constructed have actual impacts upon the people, places and spaces they divide and include. It will particularly deal with the aspirations of the Mizo Christians who embraced Christianity during the colonial period, and how they are ‘in India’ but often feel ‘not of India’, and will interrogate the Biblical and historical dimensions of their mental maps.

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Section: Contours Of Mizo Identity and Their Mental Mapsmentioning

confidence: 99%