Jelle J.P. Wouters

Jelle J.P. Wouters
Jelle J.P. Wouters

Jelle J.P. Wouters teaches at Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan. He is the author of In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India (Oxford University Press, 2018). 

Colonial Lines and Postcolonial Conflicts in North East India

The incorporation of the North East into the Indian Union replicated the colonial order of administrating tribe and territory. The history of the region since has been of shots fired, initially…
▶31-Oct-2023
Jelle J.P. Wouters

The Legal and the Lethal

AFSPA keeps apart ideas of law and justice; a separation that makes the Nagas 'killable', as in Oting. The law incorporates them into the Indian nation-state as rights-deprived subjects —…
▶22-Dec-2021
Jelle J.P. Wouters

The Cultural Politics of Proxy-Voting in Nagaland

Nagaland’s voter turnouts are often the highest in the country, and it may be so this time around as well. But why was the citizenry of Nagaland so keen to vote for their lone, largely ineffectual…
▶15-May-2019
Jelle J.P. Wouters, Roderick Wijunamai