Staking Claims
The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India
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9780199467778
Publication date:
17/10/2016
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388 pages
216x140mm
Price: 1195.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199467778
Publication date:
17/10/2016
Hardback
388 pages
Uday Chandra, Daniel Taghioff
Its broad interdisciplinary character and its vivid ethnographic accounts of social movements in rural India today.
Rights: World Rights
Uday Chandra, Daniel Taghioff
Description
The contributions to this volume explore movements against capital and the state in contemporary rural India in three complementary ways. First, the simultaneous material and cultural claims of dispossession the movements make in particular rural contexts. Second, the new forms of organization that shape contemporary claim-making practices as well as political subjectivities in rural India. Third, the way the academia situates itself with respect to these movements, their organizations, activists, and participants. By delving into these relatively new and pertinent questions in the study of social movements in contemporary India, the contributors analyze the politics of subaltern agency, translocal activism, and academic knowledge-production in different, albeit interlinked, locations. The volume puts forth the argument that these are modes of political action that share complex relationships with each other, and may complement each other at times and yet contradict or even cancel out another at other times.
About the Authors
Uday Chandra, Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University, and Daniel Taghioff, Independent anthropologist based in Delhi
Uday Chandra is Assistant Professor of Government, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University.
Daniel Taghioff is an independent anthropologist based in Delhi.
Uday Chandra, Daniel Taghioff
Table of contents
Introduction: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Study of Social Movements in Rural India - Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff
Section I: Transcending Nature/Culture
1:Democratic Struggles in the Bhil Heartland: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Scenarios - Alf Gunvald Nilsen
2:Into the Grid: Hydropower and Subaltern Politics in Northeast India - Bengt G. Karlsson
3:Everyday Forest Rights: Property, Community and the State in Kalahandi District- Matthew B. Shutzer
Space for Social Action in the Politics of Nature: Commentary by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Section II: Structures and Subjectivities
4:Manju Devi's Martyrdom: Marxist-Leninist Politics and the Rural Poor in Bihar - Nicolas Jaoul
5:Managing 'Communities' of Resistance: Negotiating Caste and Class in an Anti-land Acquisition Movement in West Bengal - Kenneth Bo Nielsen
5:The Emergence of Adivasi Political Subjectivity in Late Socialist Kerala - Luisa Steur
Structures and subjectivities: Commentary by Subir Sinha
Section III: Power, Knowledge, Action
6:Negotiating Knowledge and Power in Indigenous Movements and Development Plans - Felix Padel
7:Being Indigenous in Adivasi India; Or How to Decolonize the Postcolonial Imagination - Madhuri Karak
8:'Word Traps' and the Drafting of India's Forest Rights Act - Anand Vaidya
9:Drawing on Experiences from the Forests: The Limits and Possibilities of Resource Struggles in India Today - Shankar Gopalakrishnan
Reflections of a (western) Anthropological Elder: Commentary by Judith Whitehead
Index
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Uday Chandra, Daniel Taghioff
Description
The contributions to this volume explore movements against capital and the state in contemporary rural India in three complementary ways. First, the simultaneous material and cultural claims of dispossession the movements make in particular rural contexts. Second, the new forms of organization that shape contemporary claim-making practices as well as political subjectivities in rural India. Third, the way the academia situates itself with respect to these movements, their organizations, activists, and participants. By delving into these relatively new and pertinent questions in the study of social movements in contemporary India, the contributors analyze the politics of subaltern agency, translocal activism, and academic knowledge-production in different, albeit interlinked, locations. The volume puts forth the argument that these are modes of political action that share complex relationships with each other, and may complement each other at times and yet contradict or even cancel out another at other times.
About the Authors
Uday Chandra, Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University, and Daniel Taghioff, Independent anthropologist based in Delhi
Uday Chandra is Assistant Professor of Government, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University.
Daniel Taghioff is an independent anthropologist based in Delhi.
Table of contents
Introduction: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Study of Social Movements in Rural India - Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff
Section I: Transcending Nature/Culture
1:Democratic Struggles in the Bhil Heartland: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Scenarios - Alf Gunvald Nilsen
2:Into the Grid: Hydropower and Subaltern Politics in Northeast India - Bengt G. Karlsson
3:Everyday Forest Rights: Property, Community and the State in Kalahandi District- Matthew B. Shutzer
Space for Social Action in the Politics of Nature: Commentary by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Section II: Structures and Subjectivities
4:Manju Devi's Martyrdom: Marxist-Leninist Politics and the Rural Poor in Bihar - Nicolas Jaoul
5:Managing 'Communities' of Resistance: Negotiating Caste and Class in an Anti-land Acquisition Movement in West Bengal - Kenneth Bo Nielsen
5:The Emergence of Adivasi Political Subjectivity in Late Socialist Kerala - Luisa Steur
Structures and subjectivities: Commentary by Subir Sinha
Section III: Power, Knowledge, Action
6:Negotiating Knowledge and Power in Indigenous Movements and Development Plans - Felix Padel
7:Being Indigenous in Adivasi India; Or How to Decolonize the Postcolonial Imagination - Madhuri Karak
8:'Word Traps' and the Drafting of India's Forest Rights Act - Anand Vaidya
9:Drawing on Experiences from the Forests: The Limits and Possibilities of Resource Struggles in India Today - Shankar Gopalakrishnan
Reflections of a (western) Anthropological Elder: Commentary by Judith Whitehead
Index
Notes on Editors and Contributors
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