Title: Staking claims : the politics of social movements in contemporary rural India /
Authors: Chandra, Uday; Taghioff, Daniel,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Social movements India; Caste India.; Caste; Politics and government.; Rural conditions; Social movements; India Rural conditions.; India Politics and government.; India
Contents: Nature, culture, and knowledge in the study of social movements in rural India / Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff -- Democratic struggles in the Bhil heartland : historical trajectories and contemporary scenarios / Alf Gunvald Nilsen -- Into the grid : hydropower and subaltern politics in northeast India / Bengt G. Karlsson -- Everyday forest rights : property, community and the state in Kalahandi district / Matthew B. Shutzer -- Space for social action in the politics of nature : commentary / by K. Sivaramakrishnan -- Manju Devi's martyrdom: Marxist-Leninist politics and the rural poor in Bihar / Nicolas Jaoul -- Managing 'communities' of resistance : negotiating caste and class in an anti-land acquisition movement in West Bengal / Kenneth Bo Nielsen -- The emergence of Adivasi political subjectivity in late socialist Kerala / Luisa Steur -- Structures and subjectivities : commentary / by Subir Sinha -- Negotiating knowledge and power in indigenous movements and development plans / Felix Padel -- Being indigenous in Adivasi India, or, How to decolonize the postcolonial imagination / Madhuri Karak -- 'Word traps' and the drafting of India's Forest Rights Act / Anand Vaidya -- Drawing on experiences from the forests : the limits and possibilities of resource struggles in India today / Shankar Gopalakrishnan -- Reflections of a (Western) anthropological elder : commentary / by Judith Whitehead.