Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability : Perspectives from Northeast India

• Autore: Chakrabarti Anjan
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (429 pages)
• Altri autori: ChakrabortyGorky ChakrabortyAnup Shekhar
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 An Introduction to Indigeneity, Development, and Sustainability -- Introduction: Northeast India -- Indigeneity in Northeast India -- Indigenous People, Ecology, and Sustainability -- Are Indigenous Practices Always Sustainable? -- Indigenous Patriarchies, Access, and Allocation-Dissemination of Resources -- Indigenous Women and Development -- Gendering Development -- Local Autonomy and "Sons/Daughters of Soil Theory" -- Indigeneity and Development -- The Layout of the Volume -- References -- Part I Northeast: Then and Now -- 2 The Idea of Northeast India: Contesting the Construct -- Introduction -- New Developmental Construct and India's Northeastern Region -- Contesting the Construct: Moving Beyond Developmental Geography -- Concluding Annotations -- References -- 3 Society, Culture, and Tribal Development in Northeast India -- Introducing the Region -- Tribal Development in Northeast India -- Tribal Panchsheel -- Reciprocity, Surplus, and Tribal Development in Northeast India -- Conclusion: Act East Policy and Northeast India -- References -- 4 Historicising Development: Colonialisation, Cartography and Explorations in India's Northeast -- Introduction -- Colonial Cartography and Explorations -- Knowing the Brahmaputra -- The Wilcox Exploration -- The Williamson Exploration -- The Lambert Exploration -- Surveys as Machinery of Rule -- Official Tours as a Colonial Tool of Governance -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II Vexed Geopolitics and Geoeconomics: Lessons from the Borderlands -- 5 Tracing Northeast Region Amidst the Tangle of Geopolitics between India and China -- Introduction -- Neoliberal View on Northeast and Changing Responses Through Look East/Act East. ; BIMSTEC, ASEAN, and Creation of Infrastructural Web: China and India Entanglement -- Unrest in Thailand and Myanmar: India's Geoeconomic Labyrinth -- The Maritime Silk Route and Indo-Pacific Region on Browl -- Inside the Northeast -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Economics of Borderland and Lives: Empirical Understanding from Northeast India -- Introduction -- Borderland Economy, Livelihoods and Labour Markets -- Traditional Trade Practices of Northeast -- Contemporary Development of Trade Practices of Northeast -- Trade Between India and Bangladesh -- Trade Between India and Nepal -- Trade Between India and China -- Trade Between India and Bhutan -- Trade Between India and Myanmar -- Trade Through Northeast via Land Ports -- Performance Development of Broder Districts Development of Social Infrastructure -- Development of Psychical Infrastructure -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Disgruntled Geographies and Contested Connectivity in NorthEast India: Between Wireless and Wiremore -- Introduction -- Understanding the "Disgruntled Geographies" -- Political Economy of These "Disgruntled Geographies": to Wire or not to Wire -- Digital Economy, Digital Democracy and Techno-Nationalism: Wireless -- Making Northeastern Cities and Spaces Smart: Wireless Versus Wiremore -- Closing Observations -- References -- 8 Arunachal as Gateway and Arunachal as Frontier -- Introduction -- Arunachal as Gateway -- Road Connectivity -- Securing the Gates -- Arunachal as Frontier -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Understanding Underdevelopment: A Study on Select Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- Conceptual Clarifications -- Statement of the Problem -- Significance of the Study -- Objectives of the Study -- Methodology and Database -- Profile of the Select Tribes -- Puroik. ; Inter-Regional and Inter-Tribal Variations in the Development of Kurung Kumey District -- Education -- Health Care Accessibility -- Development Initiatives and People's Experiences -- Beneficiaries Under Development Programmes -- Problems and Difficulties Faced by the Beneficiaries -- Underdevelopment in Kurung Kumey District -- Causes of Underdevelopment in Kurung Kumey District -- Suggestions to Address Existing Realities -- Conclusions -- References -- Part III Between Leaving and Living: People in Motion -- 10 Ambiguous Sexualities and Pink Migrations: Politics of Sexualities, Regimentation and Control Among Gorkhas in Northeast India -- Introduction -- Finding Gulabi Asmaan (Pink Sky): Chal Ghar Chale (Let's Go Home) -- Our Sky: Dreams, Hopes and Exasperations -- Indrajaal: The Webbed in Real and Virtual -- Some Closing Comments -- References -- 11 Analyzing Out-Migration: The Unfolding Saga of NEI Out-Migrants in Delhi -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Migration Scenario of NEI: Census 1991-2011 -- Destination -- Reasons -- NEI Out-Migration to Delhi: Primary Field Results -- Reasons for Out-Migration: Exploratory Factor Analysis -- Discussion -- Employment Reasons -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Absolute Number of "In-Migrants", "Out-Migrants", and Net Migrants Among the States of NEI (1991-2001) -- Appendix 2: Percentage Distribution of Different Migration Streams of NEI Out-Migration to the Different Destinations in the Country (1991-2011) -- Appendix 3: Percentage Distribution of Reasons for Migration for NE Out-Migrants Across the Census Periods of 1991-2011 -- Appendix 4: Percentage Distribution of the Preferred Destinations for NEI Out-Migrants Across the Census Period of 1991-2011 -- Appendix 5: Results of Exploratory Factor Analysis -- Appendix 5.1: KMO and Bartlett's Test. ; Appendix 5.2: Scree Plot of Factors and Eigen Values -- Appendix 5.3: Initial Communalities and Communalities After Extraction -- Appendix 5.4: Total Variance Explained -- Appendix 5.5: Component Matrix of the Variables -- Appendix 5.6: Rotated Factor Matrix of the Variables -- Appendix 5.7: Naming of Factors Loaded Under Each Factor -- Appendix 6: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Between the Age Group of 15-34 years: India's Scenario (Census 1991-2011) -- Appendix 7: Percentage Distribution Workers and Non-workers Between the Age Group of 15-34 years: NEI Scenario (Census 1991-2011) -- Appendix 8: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2001 India Scenario -- Appendix 9: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2001 NEI Scenario -- Appendix 10: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2011 India's Scenario -- Appendix 11: Percentage Distribution of Workers and Non-workers Classified by Education Level and Sex: Census 2011 NEI Scenario -- References -- 12 Missing Fluvio-Social Dynamics of a Braided River: A Study on a Select Stretch of the Brahmaputra in Assam -- Introduction -- Review of Literature -- Study Areas -- Data and Methodology -- Materials -- Methods for River Bank Erosion and Accretion -- CMZ -- HMZ -- Erosion Buffer (EB) -- Land Use Land Cover (LULC) -- Field Survey -- Results and Discussions -- Variation in the Course of the Brahmaputra -- Erosion and Accretion -- Between 1972 and 1980 -- Between 1980 and 1990 -- Between 1990 and 2000 -- Between 2000 and 2010 -- Between 2010 and 2022 -- Between 1972 and 2022 -- River Channel Migration Historic Migration Zone (HMZ) -- Bank Line Migration -- Erosion Buffer Zone -- Channel Migration Zone -- Impact on Land. ; LULC -- Land Use Transformation -- Land Loss -- Socio-Political Impact -- Migration -- Livelihood Insecurity -- Issues Related to Identity -- Conclusion -- References -- 13 Discourse on Migration and Human Trafficking from Manipur: Coercion vs Voluntary -- Introduction -- Locating the Economy of Human Trafficking -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Betwixt and Between Belonging and Unbelonging -- 14 The Fragmented 'Indigenes': Travails of Becoming Bengali in Modern Assam -- Introduction -- Partition, Loss of Indigeneity, and Closure -- 'One and Indivisible' -- 'Shattered Dreams' -- Closure of History -- Politics of Refuge -- Centralizing the Bengalis -- A World of Their Own -- Civic Nationalism -- References -- 15 Citizenship, Inheritances, and Borderlands: Assam's Entangled Histories -- Introduction -- Historicising Borderlands: The Entangled Inheritances of Assam. -- Geographies of Citizenship: Deconstructing Assam -- Fragmented Homogeneities: Brahmaputra Valley and the National Perception of Assam -- Citizenship in Isolation: The Unique Case of Barak Valley -- The Unwanted Citizen: Chars and the Elusive Promises of Citizenship -- Misplaced Singularities: Reconceptualising Assam -- Conclusion: Writing About Borderlands -- References -- 16 Forest, Land, and Peasant: The Case of Doyang Reserved Forest in Assam, India -- Introduction -- Locating the Doyang Reserved Forest -- Assessing the Peasant in Literature -- State, Forest Land and the Peasants -- State, Border and the People -- State, Ethnicity and the Peasantry -- Making of Borders and Boundaries in the Three Sets of Relationships -- Conclusion -- References -- 17 Making a 'Peter the Great' in an Imperial Frontier: Educating 'Natives' and Introducing English Language and Roman Script in Manipur -- Introduction -- Educating the Raja, Educating the 'Natives'. ; Introducing English Language and the Roman Script.
• Titolo autorizzato: Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability
• ISBN: 981-9714-36-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910857788903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development Series