Knowledge, Power and Ignorance (eBook, PDF)

The Indian Context
Redaktion: Kanti Das, Bidhan; Guha, Abhijit; Chakraborty, Gorky

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Produktbeschreibung

The volume critically looks at various aspects: Epistemological Issues; Understanding Community Perspectives and the State; Natural Resources, Power and Ignorance; Media and Production of Non-Knowledge; and other emerging areas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040045176
• Artikelnr.: 70759549

Autorenporträt

Bidhan Kanti Das is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). He has been teaching development studies for last 15 years and is also engaged in research in local forest management, and problems of marginalized communities. He has published research articles in national and international journal of repute. Gorky Chakraborty is faculty at Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), working on issues related to the development of North East India. Abhijit Guha is a former Professor of Anthropology at Vidyasagar University. He acted as an expert of the Standing Committee on Rural Development of the Lok Sabha in 2008,advising on the Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Amendment Bills. He is also the author of Encountering Land Grab: An Ethnographic Journey (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction Introduction: Exploring Knowledge, Power and
Ignorance- Bidhan Kanti Das, Gorky Chakraborty and Abhijit Guha Part II:
Epistemological Issues 1. Reimagining Ignorance and Forced Migration:
Connections and Possibilities- Sudeep Basu 2. Knowledge, Power and
Ignorance: Views from a Gendered Lens- Nagmani Rao Part III: Understanding
Community Perspectives and the State 3. The Interplay of Knowledge, Power
and Ignorance: Looking through the Lens of Community-Rajat Kanti Das 4.
State Making, Ignorance and Power: Experiences from a De-notified Community
in Central India- Ratna Dhar 5. The Sentinel Islanders and the Myth of
Cannibalism: "Popular Ignorance" as Knowledge-Mundayat Sasikumar Part IV:
Natural Resources, Power and Ignorance 6. What I believed to be true was
part of the larger whole: the story of land grab in Medinipur-Abhijit Guha
7. Strategic Ignorance for Bureaucratic control? Examining forest
governance practices in India-Bidhan Kanti Das 8. Knowledge and the Heft of
Ignorance: The Government of Conservation Infrastructure in Sundarbans,
West Bengal- Raktim Mazumder and Gorky Chakraborty 9. Knowledge and
Policy/Practice in the Water Sector: Illustrating Contestations and
Disconnectedness- K. J. Joy, Bejoy K. Thomas and Jyoti Nair Part V: Media
and Production of Non-Knowledge 10. Trajectories of Post-Truth: Floating
Signifiers and the Aspects of Ignorance in Public Sphere - Suman Nath 11.
Media, Information and Quality of Knowledge: A Study of Health News from
Two Newspapers- Subrata Mukherjee and Tiasha Dhar Part VI: Emerging Areas
12. Comics - A Children's Genre? Censorship, Fantasy and Critique- Roma
Chatterji 13. Ignoring Low-fee Private Schools in India- Soumyabrato
Bagchi, Bhaskar Chakrabarti and Rituparna Das