Full Description
Routledge Readings on Security and Governance in Northeastern India: Resource Conflicts, Militarisation and Development Challenges presents some of the finest essays on a region that stretches across the Northeastern Himalaya, eight Indian States and many tribal and non-tribal peoples.
With a lucid Introduction, this and its companion volume, Routledge Readings on Colonial to Contemporary Northeastern India offer a compelling look into the society, polity, contemporary security and developmental issues in northeast India. It covers several critical themes and unravels complexities fraught by the unique biogeography and socio-political history of the region. The fifteen chapters in this multidisciplinary volume, divided into three sections, examine land laws, conflict and resource management and local governance. It discusses the political interplay of ethnicities and resource appropriation in a modernizing, globalizing economy as well as instances of conflicts and violence in highly militarized spaces in the region. It offers an engaged and insightful look into the rural and urban human development contexts in the region from authors who have contributed significantly to the academic and/or policy discourse on the subject.
This book will serve as essential reading for students, scholars, policymakers, practitioners of South Asian studies, Northeast India studies, history, development studies, labour studies, sociology, public administration, environmental studies, law and human rights, regional literature, cultural studies, geography, and economics.
Contents
Introduction PART I. Resource Conflicts and Management 1. Land Laws, Development and Globalisation in Northeast India 2. Forest Conservation and Community Land Rights in Manipur 3. Hydro-dollar dreams: Emergent Local Politics of Large Dams and Small Communities 4. Local Institutions, Urban Water Governance and Future Challenges: A Case Study of Shillong PART II. Militarisation, Security and Governance 5. History of Militarisation of the Northeast: Search for a Radical Civil Response 6. Governance and Human Security Issues in the Northeast 7. Security and Development: Understanding the Relationship 8. Violence, Agrarian Change and the Politics of Autonomy in Assam 9. Frontier Towns in the Spatial Dynamics of Trade, Capital and Conflict PART III. Development Challenges 10. Building Northeastern Futures, Looking East 11. Look East Policy and the Continental Route 12. India-Myanmar Borderlands: Pressing Concerns in Public Health Hazards 13. Educational disparities in Northeast India 14. School and Society: Home, Community and the State 15. Of people and their stories: Writing in English from India's Northeast
