The Politics of Swidden Farming
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The Politics of Swidden Farming

Environment and Development in Eastern India

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Politics of Swidden Farming

Environment and Development in Eastern India

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. 1. Introduction
  12. 2. Methodology and Fieldwork: Negotiating Hazardous Fields
  13. 3. Ethnography, Violence and Memory: Telling Violence in the Naga Hills
  14. 4. Jhum and the ‘Science of Empire’: Ecological Discourse, Ethnographic Knowledge and Colonial Mediation
  15. 5. Land and Land-Based Relations in a Yimchunger Naga Village: From Book View to Field View
  16. 6. The Politics of Time: The Missionary Calendar, the Protestant Ethic and Labour Relations among the Eastern Nagas
  17. 7. Micro-Politics of Development Intervention: Village Patrons, Community Participation and the NEPED Project
  18. 8. Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index