Title Civil society, democratization and the search for human security : the politics of the environment, gender, and identity in northeast India / Duncan McDuie-Ra

Published New York : Nova Science Publishers, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 219 pages) : illustrations Contents CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRATIZATION AND THE SEARCH FOR HUMAN SECURITY: THE POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT, GENDER, AND IDENTITY IN NORTHEAST INDIA; CONTENTS ; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; GLOSSARY OF NON-ENGLISH TERMS ; INTRODUCTION ; PART 1: BOUNDED SPHERES, BOUNDED IDENTITIES ; CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRATISATION AND HUMAN SECURITY ; THE ASCENDANCY OF THE THIRD SPHERE MODEL ; WHY CIVIL SOCIETY? ; EURO-CENTRISM AND CRITICAL CIVIL SOCIETY ; CIVIL SOCIETY IN INDIA ; HUMAN SECURITY ; APPLYING HUMAN SECURITY ; A CRITICAL STARTING POINT COLONIALISM, STATE FORMATION, AND IDENTITY IN NORTHEAST INDIA DRIVE-IN ANTHROPOLOGY ; CREATING TRIBES AND HILL TRIBES IN COLONIAL ASSAM ; THE PERSISTENCE OF COLONIAL CATEGORIES: STATE FORMATION AND THE FURTHER POLITICISATION OF IDENTITY ; THE 'OUTSIDERS' DISCOURSE: POLITICAL POWER AND ETHNICITY IN MEGHALAYA ; THE HEGEMONY OF IDENTITY IN MEGHALAYA ; IDENTITY, POWER AND INEQUALITY ; INSECURE IDENTITY ; PART II -- MARGINALITY AND VOICE: THE INSECURITY OF CIVIL SOCIETY ; CONSTRUCTING ENVIRONMENTAL INSECURITY: THE POLITICS OF DEGRADATION AND IDENTITY APPROACHING ENVIRONMENTAL INSECURITY ENVIRONMENTALISM IN NATIONAL AND LOCAL CONTEXTS ; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN MEGHALAYA ; URANIUM MINING, COAL MINING, AND 'OUTSIDERS' ; COAL MINING ; ETHNICISING THE ENVIRONMENT ; THE MYTH OF EMPOWERMENT: GENDER, INSECURITY, AND IDENTITY ; APPROACHING GENDER AND INSECURITY ; GENDER-BASED INSECURITY IN THE KHASI HILLS ; GENDER POLITICS IN THE KHASI HILLS; CONTESTING POWER: RECOVERING AGENCY ; TOWARDS TRANSCENDENCE? ; PART III -- TRANSCENDENCE: BRINGING BACK THE POLITICAL TRANSCENDENCE: RE-THINKING CIVIL SOCIETY, RE-INTERPRETING HUMAN SECURITY, AND RE-IMAGINING MEGHALAYA RE-IMAGINING CIVIL SOCIETY ; RE-INTERPRETING HUMAN SECURITY ; RE-IMAGINING MEGHALAYA ; TRANSCENDENCE ; RE-POLITICISATION ; CONCLUSION: UNCOVERING NEGLECTED NARRATIVES OF INSECURITY ; APPENDIX 1: LIST OF ORGANISATIONS CONSULTED ; REFERENCES ; INDEX Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-203) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Political participation -- India -- Meghalaya Civil society -- India -- Meghalaya Democratization -- India -- Meghalaya National security -- India -- Meghalaya SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays. Civil society Democratization National security Political participation Politics and government Bürgerliche Gesellschaft Politisches Handeln SUBJECT Meghalaya (India) -- Politics and government Subject India -- Meghalaya Meghalaya Form Electronic book ISBN 9781607414032 1607414031

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