In the Shadows of the State : Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India
Alpa. Shah
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | North Carolina : : Duke University Press, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (290 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. The Dark Side of Indigeneity; 2. Not Just Ghosts: Democracy as Sacral Polity; 3. Shadowy Practices: Development as Corruption; 4. Dangerous Silhouettes: Elephants, Sacrifice, and Alcohol; 5. Night Escape: Eco-incarceration, Purity, and Sex; 6. The Terror Within: Revolution against the State?; Epilogue: Arcadian Spaces beyond the Shadows of the State; Glossary of Terms; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - An argument that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they seek to help, based on extensive ethnographic research in eastern India.
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| Geografisk emneord | Jharkhand : (NO-TrBIB)HUME20385
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| ISBN | 9780822347446. - 9780822347651
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