Vernacular Politics in Northeast India (eBook, PDF)

Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
Redaktion: Wouters, Jelle J. P.

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Produktbeschreibung

Perhaps nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of 'the political' as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast India. Vernacular Politics in Northeast India offers penetrating accounts into what guides and animates Northeast India's spirited political sphere, including the categories and values through which its peoples conceive of their 'political' lives. Fourteen essays by anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and geographers think their way afresh into the region's political life and sense. Collectively they show how different communities, instead of adjusting themselves to modern democratic ideals, adjust democracy to themselves, how ethnicity has become a politically pregnant expression of local identities, and how forms and politics of indigeneity assume a life of its own as it is taken on, articulated, reworked, and fought over by peoples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192678256
• Artikelnr.: 63947317

Autorenporträt

Jelle P Wouters is a social anthropologist and teaches in the Department of Social Sciences at Royal Thimphu College. He has written on politics, insurgency, capitalism, and identity in Northeast India, and is the author of In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India (OUP, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and Introduction
* 2: Sean Dowdy: What is a Raij? Translating Counter-Sovereignties in
Twenty-First-Century Assam
* 3: Milinda Banerjee: A Non-Eurocentric Genealogy of Indian Democracy:
Tripura in History of Political Thought
* 4: Swargajyoti Gohain: Monks and Minority Politics in Arunachal
Pradesh
* 5: Joy Pachuau: Ethnic mobilization and the election process: A study
of the contours of identity making in Mizoram
* 7: Thongkholal Haokip: Ethnocracy in Deeply Divided Societies: The
Dynamics of Ethnopolitics in Manipur
* 8: Edward Moon-Little: Like The Fish Follow The Python: Biomoral
Politics Amongst Meitei Revivalists
* 9: Leishipem Khamrang and Jelle J.P Wouters: Prophecy as Politics: Of
Chosenness, Covenant and Cosmos in the Naga Struggle for Sovereignty
* 10: Michael Heneise: Konyak cosmopolitics: feasting kings, fasting
prophets and the state
* 11: Kaustubh Deka: 'A register and a bill' The contentious making of
citizenship in Assam
* 12: Maranatha G.T. Wahlang and Bengt G. Karlsson: The body of the
land: Women, ethnicity and alter-politics
* 13: Sajal Nag: Women as/and Outsiders: Subjectification, Exclusion
and Depoliticisation in North East India
* 14: Mabel Gergan: Designing Indigeneity: Eco-Tourism, State
Benevolence, and 'Entitled' Youth in Dzongu, Sikkim
* Northeast India as a Complex and Compressed Modernity