| Description |
xi, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Nature, culture, and knowledge in the study of social movements in rural India / Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff -- Democratic struggles in the Bhil heartland : historical trajectories and contemporary scenarios / Alf Gunvald Nilsen -- Into the grid : hydropower and subaltern politics in northeast India / Bengt G. Karlsson -- 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 -- Manju Devi's martyrdom: Marxist-Leninist politics and the rural poor in Bihar / Nicolas Jaoul -- Managing 'communities' of resistance : negotiating caste and class in an anti-land acquisition movement in West Bengal / Kenneth Bo Nielsen -- The emergence of Adivasi political subjectivity in late socialist Kerala / Luisa Steur -- Structures and subjectivities : commentary / by Subir Sinha -- Negotiating knowledge and power in indigenous movements and development plans / Felix Padel -- Being indigenous in Adivasi India, or, How to decolonize the postcolonial imagination / Madhuri Karak -- 'Word traps' and the drafting of India's Forest Rights Act / Anand Vaidya -- 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 |
| Summary |
"Staking Claims seeks to understand such heterogeneity in the structures of and support for movements in 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 which shape contemporary claim-making practices as well as political subjectivities in rural India. Third, the way academia situates itself with respect to these movements, their organizations, activists, and participants."--Back cover |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social movements -- India
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Caste -- India
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Caste -- Political aspects -- India
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Caste -- Polical aspects -- India
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Social movements -- India -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Politics and government
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India -- Rural conditions
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India -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
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| Author |
Chandra, Uday, (Political scientist), editor
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Taghioff, Daniel, editor
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| LC no. |
2016362485 |
| ISBN |
9780199467778 |
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0199467773 |
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