Gender, Mobilities and Livelihood Transformations - Comparing Indigenous People in China, India and Laos

"This book demonstrates how current neoliberal policies are making people increasingly on the move - whether voluntarily or forced, and whether individually, as family, or as whole communities - and how such mobility is changing the livelihoods of indigenous people, focussing on how these transformations are gendered. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research it compares indigenous people in India, China and Laos that are rapidly being exposed to structural adjustments, neoliberal policies, and reform. It queries how state policies and cross-border and cross-regional connections have shaped and redefined rights, identities, and gender relations of indigenous peoples"--

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• Authors: Ragnhild (EDT)/ Kusakabe Lund, Ragnhild Kusakabe Lund
• Assisted by: Kyoko Kusakabe (Editor), Kusakabe Kyoko (Editor), Ragnhild Lund (Editor), Lund Ragnhild (Editor), Smita Mishra Panda (Editor), Panda Smita Mishra (Editor), Yunxian Wang (Editor), Wang Yunxian (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2013
• EAN: 9780415813532
• ISBN: 978-0-415-81353-2
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration; Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, International Relations, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Development Studies, Indian sub-continent