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Author Vandenhelsken, Mélanie, author.

Title Geographies of Difference : Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies / Mélanie Vandenhelsken
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Remembering Bianca Son; Introduction: Northeastern research entanglements; Part I Historical and ethnographic encounters; 1 Reading Fürer-Haimendorf in Northeast India; 2 The role of informants in the construction of the Zo as the Chin, Lushai and the Kuki of Burma and India; 3 Sutured landscapes: making of an imperial frontier in Tripura (1848-1854); 4 Portrait of a place: reflections about fieldwork from the foothills of Northeast India; 5 Ethnographic study and cultural production in Sikkim
Part II Politics of land and material resources6 Hydro-dollar dreams: emergent local politics of large dams and small communities; 7 Violence, agrarian change and the politics of autonomy in Assam; 8 Naga art and their market through time: delocalisation, state control and globalisation; 9 Youth fashion and the identity of resistance in Northeast India; Part III In and out of the state; 10 Decades of 'ethnic massacre' in Bodoland: the state and the framing of conflict in India's Northeast; 11 Diversity and difference: the art of electioneering in Meghalaya
12 From the shackles of tradition: motherhood and women's agitation in Manipur13 Mizo identity: the role of the Young Mizo Association (YMA) in Mizoram; 14 Situating language, recognising multilingualism: linguistic identities and mother tongue attachment in Northeast India and the region; Afterword: contested, vertical, fragmenting: de-partitioning 'Northeast India' studies; Index
Summary "This book rethinks Northeast India as a lived space, a centre of interconnections and unfolding histories, instead of an isolated periphery. Questioning dominant tropes and assumptions around the Northeast, it examines socio-political and historical processes, border issues, the role of the state, displacement and development, debates over natural resources, violence, notions of body and belonging, movements, tensions and relations, and strategies, struggles and narratives that frame discussions on the region. Drawing on current and emerging research in Northeast India studies, this work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, human geography, sociology and social anthropology, history, cultural studies, media studies and South Asian studies."--Provided by publisher
Subject Indians of North America -- Northeastern States.
Indians -- Government relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Indians -- Government relations
Indians of North America
Northeastern States
Form Electronic book
Author Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, Meenaxi, 1965-
Karlsson, B. G.
ISBN 9781315110295
1315110296