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Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya : Gendered Transitions.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dutta, Bitopi.
- Series:
- Transition in Northeastern India
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mineral industries--India--Meghalaya.
- Mineral industries.
- Forced migration--India--Meghalaya.
- Forced migration.
- Matrilineal kinship--India--Meghalaya.
- Matrilineal kinship.
- India--Meghalaya.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 pages).
- polychrome
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge India, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Bitopi Dutta is Assistant Professor at the School for Life at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. She is a former IRC Scholar and has a PhD from Dublin City University, Ireland. She earned her MA in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and her BA Honours in Sociology from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, India. Her research interests include Development Induced Displacement (DID), traditional methods of conflict resolution, gender studies and indigenous people. She has co-authored and edited several book publications on DID and on traditional methods of conflict resolution in Northeast India.
- Contents:
- 1. A Gender Analysis of Development Induced Displacement 2. Reinventing Narratives of Displacement: Methodological Considerations 3. The context of Meghalaya 4. Gender, Mining and Matriliny in the Jaintia Hills 5. "Growing up in a Mining area": Gendering labour, leisure and mobility 6. Intimacies and Violence in the Mines 7. Gendering love, Marriage and Reproductive Health: The Question of Continuity and Change
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781003149460
- 1003149464
- 9781000552638
- 1000552632
- 9781000552553
- 1000552551
- Publisher Number:
- 40031109464
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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