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This volume studies the intersection of capital and ecology primarily in one of the most sensitive geographies of the world, the Eastern Himalayan region.
List of contents
List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSection I: Growth Epistemology, Environmental Conjunctures1. Money, Capital, Power and Nature
Andrew Sheng and Sneha Poddar2. Economic Growth and Ecological Conundrum
Rakhee Bhattacharya3. Conflict Over Climate: Trajectory of Environmental Historiography in Northeastern Region of India
Sajal Nag4. Hardwoods and the British Empire in Assam: Sal and Teak in the Age of Colonialism, 1850s-1940s
Arupjyoti SaikiaSection II: Developmentalism, Extractive Economy and Ecomusculinity5. Ecological Ruptures in the Eastern Himalaya: The Political Economy of Hydropower Development in Arunachal Pradesh
Deepak K. Mishra6.
"Why the Caged Bird Sings": Resource Capture and Resistance in the China-Myanmar Borderlands
Nimmi Kurian7. Ecomusculinity in the Neoliberal Era: Case of Eastern Himalaya and its Degrading Ecology
Anup Shekhar ChakrabortySection III: Capita, Subjectivities and Human/Non-Human Responses8. Subjective Capital, Adaptive Capitalism and the Enduring Human-Nature Response
G. Amarjit Sharma9. Where is the Geopolitical? More-Than-Human Politics, Polities and Poetics in the Bhutan Highlands
Jelle J. Wouters10. Secret Landscapes, Capitalist Encroachment and the Wrath of the Gods
Subhadra Mitra Channa11. Buddhism, Animal Ethics, and Environmentalism
Swargajyoti Gohain12. Ethno-ecologism and the Politics of New Citizenship in India's Northeast
Samir Kumar Das13. Work, Women, and Landscape in the Himalayas
Meera BaindurSection IV: Rights, Regulations and Alternatives14. Nature's Rights: Alternatives to the Conventional Frame
Govind Bhattacharjee15. Advancing People's Development Alternatives in Asia
Jiten Yumnam16. Traditional Livelihoods, Diversifications and Sustainable Alternatives
Sikha DuttaIndex
About the author
Rakhee Bhattacharya is Associate Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She was an Endeavour Post-doctoral fellow in Australia and has worked and taught in other institutes across the country. Her areas of research are political economy, development economics, regional economy, transnational economy and geo-economics, poverty and inequality, geopolitics, India's Northeast and its neighbourhood. She has authored
Development Disparities in Northeast India (2011) and
Northeastern India and its Neighbours: Negotiating Security and Development (2015). In addition, she has edited a number of volumes and has written many articles in both national and international journals. She is a regular columnist in
The Statesman. Her latest edited volumes are
Regional Development and Public Policy Challenges in India (2015) and
Developmentalism as Strategy: Interrogating Post-colonial Narratives on North East India (2019).
G. Amarjit Sharma is Assistant Professor at the Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. His latest (edited) book,
State vs. Society in Northeast India: History, Politics and the Everyday Life, was published in July 2021. His works are published in the journals such as
Economic and Political Weekly,
Peace Print: South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Eastern Anthropologist, Man in India.
Summary
This volume studies the intersection of capital and ecology primarily in one of the most sensitive geographies of the world, the Eastern Himalayan region.
