05685nam a22005535i 4500 978-981-97-1436-0 DE-He213 20251030112039.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240511s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819714360 978-981-97-1436-0 10.1007/978-981-97-1436-0 doi GN301-674 JHMC bicssc SOC002010 bisacsh JHMC thema Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability [electronic resource] : Perspectives from Northeast India / edited by Anjan Chakrabarti, Gorky Chakraborty, Anup Shekhar Chakraborty. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXIV, 422 p. 29 illus., 25 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development, 2543-0068 ; 18 Introduction -- Section 1: Northeast: Then and Now -- Chapter 1. Idea of North-East India: Contesting the Construct -- Chapter 2. Society, Culture and Tribal Development in Northeast India -- Chapter 3. Historicizing Development: Colonialisation, Cartography and Explorationsin India’s North East -- Section 2: Vexed Geopolitics and Geoeconomics: Lessons from the Borderlands -- Chapter 4. Tracing Northeast Region amidst the tangle of Geopolitics between India and China -- Chapter 5. Economics of Borderland and Lives: Empirical Understanding from North East India -- Chapter 6. Disgruntled Geographies and Contested Connectivity in North East India: Between Wireless and Wiremore -- Chapter 7. Arunachal as Gateway and Arunachal as Frontier -- Chapter 8. Understanding Underdevelopment: A Study of Select Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh -- Section-3: Between Leaving and Living: People in Motion -- Chapter 9. Ambiguous Sexualities and Pink Migrations: Politics of Sexualities, Regimentation and Control among Gorkhas in North East India -- Chapter 10. ‘Home’ Away from Home Region: Northeast India and the Emerging Processof Out-migration -- Chapter 11. The Missing Fluvio-social Dynamics of a Braided River: A Study on a Select Stretch of the Brahmaputra in Assam -- Chapter 12. Routes and Network of Women and Child Trafficking from Manipur in the Liberalization Period: Within and Across the Border of India -- Section 4: Betwixt and Between Belonging and Unbelonging -- Chapter 13. The Fragmented ‘Indigenes’: Travails of Becoming Bengali in Modern Assam -- Chapter 14. The Flux of Belonging in Assam: Transcending Singular Articulation of Citizenship -- Chapter 15. Forest, Land and Peasant: The case of Doyang Reserve Forest in Assam, India -- Chapter 16. Making a ‘Peter the Great’ in an imperial frontier: Educating ‘natives’ and introducing English languageand Roman script in Manipur -- Section 5: Sustainability: Old Problems and Neo-Contentions -- Chapter 17. Extent of Dependence on Forest Resources by the Forest Dwellers and Its Impact on Forest in Western Assam, India, with Special Reference to Kachugaon, Haltugaon and Parbatjhora Forest Divisions -- Chapter 18. Human-Wildlife Conflict: A Case Study of Manas National Park -- Chapter 19. Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) on Sustainable Rural Livelihood Development in Tripura. This volume presents cutting-edge research on India's Northeast region relating to borders, material mobilities, contested identities, and economic and political dynamics. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the developmental challenges currently faced by Northeast India, including the complexities of the labor market and the neoliberal economy. The book highlights the lived experiences of individuals in varied geographies and perspectives. It is organized into five sections, each addressing the region's old and vexed questions of 'development', and its complicated relationship with indigeneity and sustainability. Contributions from scholars of various disciplines provide an all-inclusive picture of the region, ranging from a macro to a micro level. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book interests a cross-section of academics and graduate students from different disciplines, including sociology, social anthropology, economics, political science, human geography, history, public policy, and development studies. Ethnology. 58687 Demography. 71026 Population. 71027 Sociocultural Anthropology. 71227 Population and Demography. 71028 Chakrabarti, Anjan. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 76760 Chakraborty, Gorky. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 76761 Chakraborty, Anup Shekhar. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 76762 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819714353 Printed edition: 9789819714377 Printed edition: 9789819714384 Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development, 2543-0068 ; 18 75594 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1436-0 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 59824 59824