Jelle J P Wouters

In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency

Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India

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Produktbeschreibung

In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for political redemption, the state's response to it, and the social corollaries and carry-overs of protracted political conflict on everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780199485703
• ISBN-10: 0199485704
• Artikelnr.: 54312214

Autorenporträt

Jelle J.P. Wouters studied anthropology in Amsterdam, Oxford, and Shillong. Presently he is a Senior Lecturer at Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. Before that, he taught at Sikkim Central University and Eberhard Karls University. Over the past years, he has done ethnographic and historical research in the Naga highlands, writing about vernacular democracy and elections, political conflict, kinship and social bonds, and social history. He has published a dozen articles on Nagaland and India's Northeast in Contributions to Indian Sociology, Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Studies in History, Asian Anthropology, Economic and Political Weekly, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Preface
1. Introduction: The Shadows of Naga Insurgency
2. Clan, Village, Tribe, and Naga Nation
3. Ceasefire as Politics: Factions, Taxes, and National Workers
4. Seeing the State: Violence, 'Seduction', and Neo-Tribal Developmentalism
5. Corruption and the Moral Economy of State Resources
6. The State as a Resource: The Quest for Frontier Nagaland
7. Performing Democracy in Nagaland
8. Epilogue: Life Beyond the Shadows of Naga Insurgency
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index
About the Author