Culture, Place, and Nature
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Culture, Place, and Nature

Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India

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Culture, Place, and Nature

Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India

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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.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780295745022
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Human Geography
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter One: Storytellers
  10. Chapter Two: Difficult Loves
  11. Chapter Three: State Loves
  12. Chapter Four: The Haats
  13. Chapter Five: Extractive Relations
  14. Chapter Six: Carbon Fantasies and Aspirations
  15. Chapter Seven: Carbon Citizenship
  16. Epilogue: Past, Present, Future
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index