Staking Claims
The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India
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9780199467778
Publication date:
16/10/2016
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388 pages
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ISBN:
9780199467778
Publication date:
16/10/2016
Hardback
388 pages
Edited by Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff
Staking Claims seeks to understand such heterogeneity in the structures of and support for movements in rural India in three complementary ways. First, the simultaneous material and cultural claims of dispossession the movements make in particular rural contexts. Second, the new forms of organization which shape contemporary claim-making practices as well as political subjectivities in rural India. Third, the way academia situates itself with respect to these movements, their organizations, activists, and participants.
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Edited by Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff
Description
Contemporary social activism in India manifests itself in disparate ways. While displacement of tribals in one location in India could trigger protest agitations in London, natives of a remote rural area may keep struggling for their rights without any support even from local non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Some movements succeed with significant global coverage while some fade away without any recognition from the institutions local to them. Staking Claims seeks to understand such heterogeneity in the structures of and support for movements in rural India in three complementary ways. First, the simultaneous material and cultural claims of dispossession the movements make in particular rural contexts. Second, the new forms of organization which shape contemporary claim-making practices as well as political subjectivities in rural India. Third, the way academia situates itself with respect to these movements, their organizations, activists, and participants.
By delving into these relatively new and pertinent questions, the contributors analyse the politics of subaltern agency, translocal activism, and academic knowledge production in different, albeit interlinked, locations. What makes this volume distinctive is its recognition that nature, culture, and knowledge crisscross and interpenetrate each other in social movements.
About the Editors
Uday Chandra is Assistant Professor of Government, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, Doha.
Daniel Taghioff is an independent anthropologist based in Bengaluru, India.
Edited by Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff
Table of contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Introduction: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Study of Social Movements in Rural India
Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff
SECTION I TRANSCENDING NATURE/CULTURE
1 Democratic Struggles in the Bhil Heartland: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Scenarios
Alf Gunvald Nilsen
2 Into the Grid: Hydropower and Subaltern Politics in Northeast India
Bengt G. Karlsson
3 Everyday Forest Rights: Property, Community, and the State in Kalahandi District
Matthew Shutzer
Space for Social Action in the Politics of Nature
Commentary by K. Sivaramakrishnan
SECTION II STRUCTURES AND SUBJECTIVITIES
4 Manju Devi’s Martyrdom: Marxist–Leninist Politics and the Rural Poor in Bihar
Nicolas Jaoul
5 Managing ‘Communities’ of Resistance: Negotiating Caste and Class in an Anti-land Acquisition Movement in West Bengal
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
6 The Emergence of Adivasi Political Subjectivity in Late Socialist Kerala
Luisa Steur
Structures and Subjectivities
Commentary by Subir Sinha
SECTION III POWER, KNOWLEDGE, ACTION
7 Negotiating Knowledge and Power in Indigenous Movements and Development Plans
Felix Padel
8 Being Indigenous in Adivasi India: Or How to Decolonize the Postcolonial Imagination
Madhuri Karak
9 ‘Word Traps’ and the Drafting of India’s Forest Rights Act
Anand Vaidya
10 Drawing on Experiences from the Forests: Th e Limits and Possibilities of Resource Struggles in India Today
Shankar Gopalakrishnan
Reflections of a (Western) Anthropological Elder
Commentary by Judith Whitehead
Editors, Contributors, and Commentators
Index
Edited by Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff
Edited by Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff
Description
Contemporary social activism in India manifests itself in disparate ways. While displacement of tribals in one location in India could trigger protest agitations in London, natives of a remote rural area may keep struggling for their rights without any support even from local non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Some movements succeed with significant global coverage while some fade away without any recognition from the institutions local to them. Staking Claims seeks to understand such heterogeneity in the structures of and support for movements in rural India in three complementary ways. First, the simultaneous material and cultural claims of dispossession the movements make in particular rural contexts. Second, the new forms of organization which shape contemporary claim-making practices as well as political subjectivities in rural India. Third, the way academia situates itself with respect to these movements, their organizations, activists, and participants.
By delving into these relatively new and pertinent questions, the contributors analyse the politics of subaltern agency, translocal activism, and academic knowledge production in different, albeit interlinked, locations. What makes this volume distinctive is its recognition that nature, culture, and knowledge crisscross and interpenetrate each other in social movements.
About the Editors
Uday Chandra is Assistant Professor of Government, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University, Doha.
Daniel Taghioff is an independent anthropologist based in Bengaluru, India.
Table of contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Introduction: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Study of Social Movements in Rural India
Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff
SECTION I TRANSCENDING NATURE/CULTURE
1 Democratic Struggles in the Bhil Heartland: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Scenarios
Alf Gunvald Nilsen
2 Into the Grid: Hydropower and Subaltern Politics in Northeast India
Bengt G. Karlsson
3 Everyday Forest Rights: Property, Community, and the State in Kalahandi District
Matthew Shutzer
Space for Social Action in the Politics of Nature
Commentary by K. Sivaramakrishnan
SECTION II STRUCTURES AND SUBJECTIVITIES
4 Manju Devi’s Martyrdom: Marxist–Leninist Politics and the Rural Poor in Bihar
Nicolas Jaoul
5 Managing ‘Communities’ of Resistance: Negotiating Caste and Class in an Anti-land Acquisition Movement in West Bengal
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
6 The Emergence of Adivasi Political Subjectivity in Late Socialist Kerala
Luisa Steur
Structures and Subjectivities
Commentary by Subir Sinha
SECTION III POWER, KNOWLEDGE, ACTION
7 Negotiating Knowledge and Power in Indigenous Movements and Development Plans
Felix Padel
8 Being Indigenous in Adivasi India: Or How to Decolonize the Postcolonial Imagination
Madhuri Karak
9 ‘Word Traps’ and the Drafting of India’s Forest Rights Act
Anand Vaidya
10 Drawing on Experiences from the Forests: Th e Limits and Possibilities of Resource Struggles in India Today
Shankar Gopalakrishnan
Reflections of a (Western) Anthropological Elder
Commentary by Judith Whitehead
Editors, Contributors, and Commentators
Index
