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  • The Politics of Swidden farming

    Environment and Development in Eastern India

    de Debojyoti Das ...
    The Politics of Swidden Farming offers a new explanation for the changes taking place in swidden farming practised in the highlands of eastern India through an ethnographic case study. The book traces the story of agroecological change and state intervention to colonial times, and helps understand contemporary agrarian change by contextualizing farming not just in terms of the science and ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Swidden farming

    Environment and Development in Eastern India

    de Debojyoti Das ...
    ‘The Politics of Swidden farming’ offers a new explanation for the changes taking place in slash-and-burn (jhum or swidden) farming in the highlands of eastern India through an ethnographic case study. Today market-led agriculture is transforming land and labour relations. Jhum cultivators are beneficiaries of state schemes, including internationally funded, community-driven development or ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Swidden farming

    Environment and Development in Eastern India

    de Debojyoti Das ...
    ‘The Politics of Swidden farming’ offers a new explanation for the changes taking place in slash-and-burn (jhum or swidden) farming in the highlands of eastern India through an ethnographic case study. Today market-led agriculture is transforming land and labour relations. Jhum cultivators are beneficiaries of state schemes, including internationally funded, community-driven development or ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Indian Ocean Imaginings

    People, Time, and Space

    de Arjun S, Jackson Black, Debojyoti Das, Ellianna Frame, Matthew Hannaford, Thor Kerr, Jeremy Prestholdt, Peter Ridgway, Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, Sundar Vadlamudi, Augusto Zimmermann ...
    This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from the disciplines of history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. From the earliest exchanges through Sumerian and Harappan trade, to emerging geopolitical alliances in the twenty-first century, this volume demonstrates both the continuity and ... Leer más

    $97.19 USD

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  • In the Shadows of the State

    Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India

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    In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of ... Leer más

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  • Ecology and Equity

    The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

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  • Peasants and Workers in Nepal

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  • Struggle Against the State

    Social Network and Protest Mobilization in India

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  • Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

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  • Hydraulic City

    Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai

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    In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic ... Leer más

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