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Living with oil and coal : resource politics and militarization in Northeast India / Dolly Kikon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kikon, Dolly, author.
- Series:
- Culture, place, and nature.
- Culture, place, and nature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mineral industries--India, Northeastern.
- Mineral industries.
- Natural resources--Political aspects--India, Northeastern.
- Natural resources.
- Natural resources--Social aspects--India, Northeastern.
- Citizenship--India, Northeastern.
- Citizenship.
- India, Northeastern--Politics and government.
- India, Northeastern.
- India, Northeastern--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, and the scramble for natural resources regulate the lives of Naga, Ahom, and Adivasi people, as well as migrants from elsewhere in the region, as they struggle to find peace and work.Anthropologist Dolly Kikon uses in-depth ethnographic accounts to address the complexity of Northeast India, a region between Southeast Asia and China where boundaries and borders are made, disputed, and maintained. Bringing a fresh and exciting direction to borderland studies, she explores the social bonds established through practices of resource extraction and the tensions these relations generate, focusing on peoples’ love for the landscape and for the state, as well as for family, friends, and neighbors. Living with Oil and Coal illuminates questions of citizenship, social justice, and environmental politics that are shared by communities worldwide.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Storytellers
- Difficult loves
- State loves
- The Haats
- Extractive relations
- Carbon fantasies and aspirations
- Carbon citizenship
- Epilogue: past, present, future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295745022
- 0295745029
- OCLC:
- 1060182616
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