Negotiating Development At the Margins - Natural Resources, Conflicts, and Peoples Movements in Odisha

This book critically examines various facets of conflicts between people and the State arising due to the uneven distribution of natural resources. It explores the socio-political and economical aspects of people's movements instead of solely viewing them as political and security threats.

List of contents

1. Natural Resource, Conflict, and People's Movement in Odisha: A Primer 2. Development: What it is and for Whom? 3. Conflicts Over Natural Resources: Analysis of Conditions for Emergence and Strategies for Prevention 4. The Struggle for Rights and Resources: Understanding People's Movements in Odisha 5. People's Movement Under a Revolutionary Brand: Understanding the Maoist Movement in Odisha 6. Conflict Over Land Resources Between Marginalized Groups: Interrogating Damba-Kandha Conflict in Koraput 7. Managing Conflicts Over Natural Resource: A Way Forward

About the author

Anshuman Behera is Associate Professor at National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India. His research interests include conflict studies, political violence, political theory, and development and conflict. His latest books are Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century: Ideas and Relevance and Varying Dimensions of India's National Security: Emerging Perspectives.
Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan is an engineer-turned development researcher. He is Associate Professor at the Institute of Rural Management Anand, Gujarat, India. He was the Subir Chowdhury Post-doctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics in 2017. He has won the Elsevier-National Academy of Sciences, India Young Scientist Award 2017 in Social Sciences. His areas of interest include economic measurement, sustainability, energy, human development, sociopolitical reform, and disarmament.

Product details

• Authors: Anshuman Behera, Anshuman (Assistant Professor Behera, Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032603742
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3260374-2
• No. of pages: 148
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Sociology, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Politics & government, Social discrimination & inequality, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Social discrimination and social justice