Staking claims : the politics of social movements in contemporary rural India / edited by Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chandra, Uday (Political scientist), editor.

Taghioff, Daniel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--India.

Social movements.

India.

Caste--India.

Caste.

India--Rural conditions.

Rural conditions.

India--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xi, 374 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Staking Claims seeks to understand 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 academic situates itself with respect to these movements, their-organizations, activists, and participants. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I Transcending Nature/Culture

1 Democratic Struggles in the Bhil Heartland: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Scenarios / Alf Gunvald Nilsen Nilsen, Alf Gunvald 31

2 Into the Grid: Hydropower and Subaltern Politics in Northeast India / Bengt G. Karlsson Karlsson, Bengt G. 64

3 Everyday Forest Rights: Property, Community, and the State in Kalahandi District / Matthew Shutzer Shutzer, Matthew 84

Space for Social Action in the Politics of Nature: Commentary / K. Sivaramakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, K. 122

Section II Structures and Subjectivities

4 Manju Devi's Martyrdom: Marxist-Leninist Politics and the Rural Poor in Bihar / Nicolas Jaoul Jaoul, Nicolas 135

5 Managing 'Communities' of Resistance: Negotiating Caste and Class in an Anti-land Acquisition Movement in West Bengal / Kenneth Bo Nielsen Nielsen, Kenneth Bo 165

6 The Emergence of Adivasi Political Subjectivity in Late Socialist Kerala / Luisa Steur Steur, Luisa 200

Structures and Subjectivities: Commentary / Subir Sinha Sinha, Subir 225

Section III Power, Knowledge, Action

7 Negotiating Knowledge and Power in Indigenous Movements and Development Plans / Felix Padel Padel, Felix 237

8 Being Indigenous in Adivasi India: Or How to Decolonize the Postcolonial Imagination / Madhuri Karak Karak, Madhuri 259

9 'Word Traps' and the Drafting of India's Forest Rights Act / Anand Vaidya Vaidya, Anand 292

10 Drawing on Experiences from the Forests: The Limits and Possibilities of Resource Struggles in India Today / Shankar Gopalakrishnan Gopalakrishnan, Shankar 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199467778

0199467773

OCLC:

962364002