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Unruly Hills : A Political Ecology of India's Northeast / Bengt G. Karlsson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857451040
  • 9780857451057
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.709541 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Illustrations -- Part I Intersections -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Nature and Nation -- Part II Environment -- Chapter 2 Elusive Forests -- Chapter 3 Shifting Land Rights -- Chapter 4 Mining Matters -- Part III Culture -- Chapter 5 Indigenous Governance -- Chapter 6 Political Ecology at the Frontier -- References -- Index
Summary: The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: How does the introduction of a modern, capitalist, resource regime affect the livelihood of indigenous peoples? Can sustainable resource management be achieved in a situation of radical commodification› of land and other aspects of nature? Focusing on conflicts relating to forest management, mining, and land rights, the author offers an insightful account of present-day challenges for indigenous people to accommodate aspirations for ethnic sovereignty and development.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780857451057

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Illustrations -- Part I Intersections -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Nature and Nation -- Part II Environment -- Chapter 2 Elusive Forests -- Chapter 3 Shifting Land Rights -- Chapter 4 Mining Matters -- Part III Culture -- Chapter 5 Indigenous Governance -- Chapter 6 Political Ecology at the Frontier -- References -- Index

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The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: How does the introduction of a modern, capitalist, resource regime affect the livelihood of indigenous peoples? Can sustainable resource management be achieved in a situation of radical commodification› of land and other aspects of nature? Focusing on conflicts relating to forest management, mining, and land rights, the author offers an insightful account of present-day challenges for indigenous people to accommodate aspirations for ethnic sovereignty and development.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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