| Description |
1 online resource (360 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I Growth Epistemology and Environmental Conjunctures -- Chapter 1 Money, Capital, Power and Nature -- Chapter 2 Economic Growth and Ecological Conundrum -- Chapter 3 Conflict over Climate: Trajectory of Environmental Historiography in Northeast India -- Chapter 4 Hardwoods and the British Empire in Assam: Sal and Teak in the Age of Colonialism, 1850s-1940s -- Section II Developmentalism, Extractive Economy and Ecomasculinity |
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Chapter 5 Ecological Ruptures in the Eastern Himalayas: The Political Economy of Hydropower Development in Arunachal Pradesh -- Chapter 6 'Why the Caged Bird Sings': Resource Capture and Resistance in the China-Myanmar Borderlands -- Chapter 7 Ecomasculinity in the Neoliberal Era: Case of the Eastern Himalayas and Its Degrading Ecology -- Section III Capital, Subjectivities and Human/Non-human Responses -- Chapter 8 Subjective Capital, Adaptive Capitalism and the Enduring Human-Nature Response |
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Chapter 9 Where Is the 'Geo'-political?: More-Than-Human Politics, Polities, and Poetics in the Bhutan Highlands -- Chapter 10 Sacred Landscapes, Capitalist Encroachments and the Wrath of the Gods -- Chapter 11 Buddhism, Animal Ethics and Environmentalism -- Chapter 12 Ethno-Ecologism and the Politics of New Citizenship in India's Northeast -- Chapter 13 Work, Women and Landscape in the Himalayas -- Section IV Rights, Regulations and Alternatives -- Chapter 14 Nature's Rights: Alternatives to the Conventional Frame -- Chapter 15 Advancing People's Development Alternatives in Asia |
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Chapter 16 Traditional Livelihoods, Diversifications and Sustainable Alternatives -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume studies the intersection of capital and ecology primarily in one of the most sensitive geographies of the world, the Eastern Himalayan region |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Energy industries -- Environmental aspects -- India, Northeastern
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Energy industries -- Social aspects -- India, Northeastern
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Sustainable development -- India, Northeastern
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Ecology.
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Energy industries -- Environmental aspects.
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Energy industries -- Social aspects.
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Sustainable development.
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| SUBJECT |
India, Northeastern -- Environmental conditions
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| Subject |
Northeastern India.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sharma, G. Amarjit
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| ISBN |
9781000923278 |
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1000923274 |
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