Debojyoti Das

The Politics of Swidden farming (eBook, ePUB)

Environment and Development in Eastern India

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Politics of Swidden Farming offers a new explanation for the changes taking place in swidden farming practised in the highlands of eastern India through an ethnographic case study. The book traces the story of agroecological change and state intervention to colonial times, and helps understand contemporary agrarian change by contextualizing farming not just in terms of the science and technology of agriculture or conservation and biodiversity but also in terms of technologies of rule. The Politics of Swidden Farming adds a new dimension to the underdeveloped literature on shifting cultivation in South Asia by focusing on the social ecology of farming and agrarian change in the hills. It provides a comparative viewpoint to state-centred and donor-driven development in the frontier region by bringing in different actors and institutions that become the actants and agents of social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783087778
• Artikelnr.: 56826702

Autorenporträt

Debojyoti Das is an AHRC-GCRF postdoctoral associate at Bristol University, UK. He received his PhD in social anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and has held several prestigious fellowships and consultancies at Yale, Sussex and the University of London. Das has published widely in journals such as the European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, Journal of Borderland Studies, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region and Economic and Political Weekly besides contributing to blogs.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Methodology and Fieldwork: Negotiating Hazardous Fields
Chapter 3 Ethnography, Violence and Memory: Telling Violence in the Naga Hills
Chapter 4 Jhum and the 'Science of Empire': Ecological Discourse, Ethnographic Knowledge and Colonial Mediation
Chapter 5 Land and Land-Based Relations in a Yimchunger Naga Village: From a Book View to a Field View
Chapter 6 The Politics of Time: The Missionary Calendar, the Protestant Ethic and Labour Relations among the Eastern Nagas
Chapter 7 The Micro-Politics of Development Intervention: Village Patrons, Community Participation and the NEPED Project
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Notes, Bibliography
Index.