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Ecological Nationalisms Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia

Cederlöf, Gunnel Sivaramakrishnan K.
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780295993843
Publisert
2014-06-01
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University of Washington Press
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612 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
376

Redaktør
Cederlöf, Gunnel
Sivaramakrishnan K.
Series edited by
Sivaramakrishnan K.

Biographical note

Gunnel Cederlof is associate professor of history, Uppsala University, Sweden. K. Sivaramakrishnan is professor of anthropology and international studies and director of the South Asia Center, Jackson School of International Studies, at the University of Washington. The other contributors are Nina Bhatt, Vinita Damodaran, Claude A. Garcia, Urs Geiser, Götz Hoeppe, Bengt G. Karlsson, Antje Linkenbach, Wolfgang Mey, Kathleen D. Morrison, J. P. Pascal, and Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn.

Ecological Nationalisms Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia

Cederlöf, Gunnel Sivaramakrishnan K.
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Cederlöf, Gunnel Sivaramakrishnan K.
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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The works presented in this collection take environmental scholarship in South Asia into novel territory by exploring how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India. The essays provide insight into the motivations of colonial and national governments in controlling or managing nature, and bring into fresh perspective the different kinds of regional political conflicts that invoke nationalist sentiment through claims on nature. In doing all this, the volume also offers new ways to think about nationalism and, more specifically, nationalism in South Asia from the vantage point of interdisciplinary environmental studies.The contributors to this innovative volume show that manifestations of nationalism have long and complex histories in South Asia. Terrestrial entities, imagined in terms of dense ecological networks of relationships, have often been the space or reference point for national aspirations, as shared memories of Mother Nature or appropriated economic, political, and religious geographies. In recent times, different groups in South Asia have claimed and appropriated ancient landscapes and territories for the purpose of locating and justifying a specific and utopian version of nation by linking its origin to their nature-mediated attachments to these landscapes. The topics covered include forests, agriculture, marine fisheries, parks, sacred landscapes, property rights, trade, and economic development.
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Presents the analyses that consider how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India and provide insight into the motivations of colonial and national governments in controlling or managing nature.
Les mer
Preface and AcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors1. Introduction: Ecological Nationalisms: Claiming Nature for Making History / K. Sivaramakrishnan and Gunnel CederlofPart One | Regional Natures, Nations, and Empire2. Environmental History, the Spice Trade, and the State in South India / Kathleen D. Morrison3. The Toda Tiger: Debates on Custom, Utility, and Rights in Nature, South India 1820-1843 / Gunnel Cederlof4. Contested Forests in North-West Pakistan: The Bureaucracy between the "Ecological," the "National," and the Realities of a Nation's Frontier / Urs GeiserPart Two | Competing Nationalisms5. Indigenous Forests: Rights, Discourses, and Resistance in Chotanagpur, 1860-2002 / Vinita Damodaran6. Nature and Politics: The Case of Uttarakhand, North India / Antje Linkenbach7. Indigenous Natures: Forest and Community Dynamics in Meghalaya, North-East India / Bengt G. Karlsson8. Sacred Forests of Kodagu: Ecological Value and Social Role / Claude A. Garcia and J.-P. PascalPart Three | Commodified Nature and National Visions9. Knowledge Against the State: Local Perceptions of Government Interventions in the Fishery (Kerala, India) / Gotz Hoeppe10. Shifting Cultivation, Images, and Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh / Wolfgang Mey11. Forest Managementin a Pukhtun Community: The Construction of Identities / Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn12. "There Is No Life Without Wildlife": National Parks and National Identity in Bardia National Park, Western Nepal / Nina BhattBibliographyIndex
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"The editors of this volume have begun a valuable process of understanding which must now be pursued."
"Ecological Nationalisms is an unusually coherent anthology, focused on the complex intersections among identity, ethnicity, political economy, and ecology in South Asia. . . . An important resource for a broad interdisciplinary audience in the social sciences."
Les mer
Essays explore how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India.

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The works presented in this collection take environmental scholarship in South Asia into novel territory by exploring how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India. The essays provide insight into the motivations of colonial and national governments in controlling or managing nature, and bring into fresh perspective the different kinds of regional political conflicts that invoke nationalist sentiment through claims on nature. In doing all this, the volume also offers new ways to think about nationalism and, more specifically, nationalism in South Asia from the vantage point of interdisciplinary environmental studies.The contributors to this innovative volume show that manifestations of nationalism have long and complex histories in South Asia. Terrestrial entities, imagined in terms of dense ecological networks of relationships, have often been the space or reference point for national aspirations, as shared memories of Mother Nature or appropriated economic, political, and religious geographies. In recent times, different groups in South Asia have claimed and appropriated ancient landscapes and territories for the purpose of locating and justifying a specific and utopian version of nation by linking its origin to their nature-mediated attachments to these landscapes. The topics covered include forests, agriculture, marine fisheries, parks, sacred landscapes, property rights, trade, and economic development.
Les mer
Presents the analyses that consider how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India and provide insight into the motivations of colonial and national governments in controlling or managing nature.
Les mer
Preface and AcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors1. Introduction: Ecological Nationalisms: Claiming Nature for Making History / K. Sivaramakrishnan and Gunnel CederlofPart One | Regional Natures, Nations, and Empire2. Environmental History, the Spice Trade, and the State in South India / Kathleen D. Morrison3. The Toda Tiger: Debates on Custom, Utility, and Rights in Nature, South India 1820-1843 / Gunnel Cederlof4. Contested Forests in North-West Pakistan: The Bureaucracy between the "Ecological," the "National," and the Realities of a Nation's Frontier / Urs GeiserPart Two | Competing Nationalisms5. Indigenous Forests: Rights, Discourses, and Resistance in Chotanagpur, 1860-2002 / Vinita Damodaran6. Nature and Politics: The Case of Uttarakhand, North India / Antje Linkenbach7. Indigenous Natures: Forest and Community Dynamics in Meghalaya, North-East India / Bengt G. Karlsson8. Sacred Forests of Kodagu: Ecological Value and Social Role / Claude A. Garcia and J.-P. PascalPart Three | Commodified Nature and National Visions9. Knowledge Against the State: Local Perceptions of Government Interventions in the Fishery (Kerala, India) / Gotz Hoeppe10. Shifting Cultivation, Images, and Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh / Wolfgang Mey11. Forest Managementin a Pukhtun Community: The Construction of Identities / Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn12. "There Is No Life Without Wildlife": National Parks and National Identity in Bardia National Park, Western Nepal / Nina BhattBibliographyIndex
Les mer
"The editors of this volume have begun a valuable process of understanding which must now be pursued."
"Ecological Nationalisms is an unusually coherent anthology, focused on the complex intersections among identity, ethnicity, political economy, and ecology in South Asia. . . . An important resource for a broad interdisciplinary audience in the social sciences."
Les mer
Essays explore how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780295993843
Publisert
2014-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Washington Press
Vekt
612 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
376

Redaktør
Cederlöf, Gunnel
Sivaramakrishnan K.
Series edited by
Sivaramakrishnan K.

Biographical note

Gunnel Cederlof is associate professor of history, Uppsala University, Sweden. K. Sivaramakrishnan is professor of anthropology and international studies and director of the South Asia Center, Jackson School of International Studies, at the University of Washington. The other contributors are Nina Bhatt, Vinita Damodaran, Claude A. Garcia, Urs Geiser, Götz Hoeppe, Bengt G. Karlsson, Antje Linkenbach, Wolfgang Mey, Kathleen D. Morrison, J. P. Pascal, and Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn.

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